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SOME “TAXES” ARE INVISIBLE, hidden in the higher prices of things we buy.  One such “tax” is huge, costing the average American family of four at least $2,884 every year in the higher price tags of everything from hamburger to health care. This government-imposed burden is higher in America than in any other industrialized nation on Earth. Call it the “Lawsuit Tax,” the huge cost that lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits adds to everything. One member of Congress has done more to increase this secret tax on Americans than has any other lawmaker. John Edwards is a Democratic U.S....

'We've got better vision. We've got better ideas. We've got real plans. And we've got better hair," said John Kerry, introducing his running mate. The Kerry-Edwards vision, ideas, etc don't look so good in the cold light of day, but John Edwards's hair does. I can personally vouch for his beautiful layered nape, having spent much of New Hampshire primary season looking at the back of his tanned neck on chilly winter mornings. He likes to campaign in the round, so all winter, in Legion halls and diners, the advance men rearranged the furniture and then the pretty-boy Southerner would...

John Edwards U.S. Senator (D-North Carolina) Born: June 10, 1953 Birthplace: Seneca, S.C. A Democratic senator from North Carolina since 1999, he began his career as a trial attorney. Among his achievements are co-authoring the Patients' Bill of Rights; and writing bioterrorism and port security measures that were passed by the Senate. The son of a mill worker, Edwards was the first in his family to attend college. A talented lawyer, Edwards won millions of dollars for his clients in trials against large corporations. Despite his self-portrayal as a lawyer who “fights for the little guy,” Edwards did no pro...

One of John Edwards' claims to fame in becoming such a wealthy trial lawyer was his ability to "channel", purportedly bringing his victims directly into touch with the juries he was trying to sway in big $$$ class action lawsuits. Channeling, of course, is a new-age phenom akin to spiritual mediums and the like, in which the newly nominated VP candidate, like the legacy of the legendary Pagan John Edwards, serves as an empty vessel for spirits of the dead to communicate with those of us in this material world. Imagine how beneficial that will be when he debates Dick...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Edwards rose to political prominence criticizing President Bush for creating "two Americas," one for the privileged and one for everyone else. A look at his finances shows he's one of the privileged. Edwards, tapped Tuesday by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to be his vice presidential running mate, is a multimillionaire former trial lawyer with wide-ranging investments in mutual funds, stocks of major American corporations and bonds of North Carolina educational and governmental organizations.The North Carolina senator's financial disclosure statement shows that he made more than 200 trades of stocks, bonds and mutual funds last year, while...