In MEN IN BLACK, Mark Levin, the conservative radio talk host, turns his attention to an area of Americana that has suddenly shifted gears from dry and dusty to hot and relevant.  He notes that the Supreme Court forms one angle of the triangle that in effect governs America.  The Presidency and the Senate over the years have struggled with the Supreme Court and each other in a bear hug that historically was more or less even.  However, Levin notes that the Court has grown powerful beyond the scope envisioned for it by the Founding Fathers, who set it up as a check on the other two.  The Court, they held, was to interpret the law, a formidably strong enough concept indeed.  Yet, Levin accuses the Court of overstepping its bounds in a manner that places it squarely in the camp of a leftist ideology that he fears has turned the United States into a bizarre nation that opposes nearly every precept once held dearly by Washington, Jefferson, and Madison.  No longer is the America of 2005 a nation that opposes racism (affirmative action is the "settled law" of a racist ideology that the Founding Fathers would have found abhorrent) nor is it one that will protect its citizens from foreign incursions (the Court now insists that captured Islamofascist terrorists must be accorded the constitutional right to face their accusers in a court of law).  Levin argues that the Court has proven over the last fifty years that the fate of the Democratic party and the fate of the Court itself are inextricably intertwined.  MEN IN BLACK was written before the recent arrival of John Roberts as Chief Justice.  With the looming confirmation hearings of Samuel Alitto as the newest conservative justice, Levin must be heartened by the likely prospect of a reversal of a court that has looked over its left shoulder for so long that it forgot that it even had a right one.