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From the great folks at Committee for Justice:

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Roberts Hearings: Glossary of Terms

With Judge John Roberts’ confirmation hearing set to begin next week, and liberal interest groups now in full scale attack mode, the Committee for Justice releases the following Viewers’ Guide to the Hearings to help the American people cut through the spin.

When liberals say…

• civil rights, they mean racial quotas and forced busing.
• reproductive rights, they mean underage girls should get abortions without notifying their parents.
• equal pay for women, they mean government bureaucrats determining your pay.
• environmental protection and worker rights, they mean the government has unlimited power to regulate private property and business.
• church-state separation, they mean your town can’t display a Menorah or Christmas crèche during the holidays.

If confirmed, Roberts will benefit the country by not being a judicial activist:

• First and foremost, Roberts won't allow bureaucrats to seize ordinary people’s private property.
• He won’t redefine traditional marriage.
• He won’t strike ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance.
• He won’t force the Boy Scouts to hire openly homosexual Scoutmasters.
• He won’t favor criminals’ rights over victims’ rights.
• He won’t protect simulated child pornography on the Internet.
• He won’t allow Congress to legislate in areas where the Constitution doesn’t grant it authority.
• He won’t ban the death penalty.
• He won’t permit the politicians to regulate what we say about them at election time.
• He won’t allow government to treat people differently because of their skin color.
• He won’t hamstring the military and intelligence services in the War on Terror.
• He won’t block school choice for kids trapped in failing schools.
• He won’t eliminate the right to gun ownership.