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The widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast Wednesday that even as her husband knew he was dying of brain cancer he had been "in training" to make sure he had enough strength to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration. In the most extensive interview since her husband's death in August, Vicki Kennedy said she wouldn't try to run for her husband's former U.S. Senate seat and described how he battled brain cancer — but she would not talk about the last thing he said to her before dying. "I think I'll just keep...

Ol'd Ted is gone but not forgotten.

In a chapter of his autobiography, the late Senator Ted Kennedy confessed to having slept with over 1,000 women and spending more than $10 million in hush money to keep his womanizing ways a secret. If you crack open the book, however, you won't find a mention of this in there anywhere. That is because horrified family members and advisers cut it out before the book was published. A close source also revealed to the National Enquirer that before he died of brain cancer at age 77 on August 25, Kennedy also revealed that he had planned to seduce Mary...

Shortly after the announcement of Ted Kennedy's death, I had already received several interview requests. I declined them, not wanting to be uncharitable to the man upon his death. Since then, I've seen the need to step up and provide some clarification. The issue is a remarkable 1983 KGB document on Kennedy, which I published in my 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperCollins). The document is a May 14, 1983 memo from KGB head Victor Chebrikov to his boss, the odious Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, designated with the highest classification. It concerns a...

Coal entrepreneur Don Blankenship put on a shindig at a reclaimed strip-mine site near Holden, West Virginia, for a Labor day picnic for 100,000 of his closest friends. Sean Hannity is there, so I suppose he will yak about it on his show tomorrow. Hank Williams Jr. is the main draw. Ted Nugent is the emcee. Nugent gave ‘em hell and told the crowd to fight back: “We have the perfect president for a nation that doesn’t care.�

We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its “mainstream” media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Senator Edward M Kennedy’s passing, America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it. In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo...

August 30, 2009 The needy little boy behind Ted the titan Dominic Lawson As Edward Kennedy was laid to rest yesterday, accompanied by a further fusillade of eulogies, we were forcibly made aware, once again, of the American fixation with the idea of personal redemption. The British are a less forgiving people. While even the right-wing US press skated around the late senator’s appalling personal behaviour over many years, in this country even politically sympathetic newspapers published excoriating accounts, concentrating on the incident 40 years ago when the 37-year-old Ted Kennedy abandoned Mary Jo Kopechne to die alone in a...

http://www.breitbart.tv/limbaugh-wonders-whos-paying-for-the-kennedy-funeral/ "I know it's not the Kennedy trust..."

The death of anyone—let alone the son of “revered” American family and an American senator—is most worthy of a post. I have not said much in recent weeks. And for that I apologize. Edward “Ted” Kennedy is dead. But, I think it fair to put that death—and the life that preceded it— into fair perspective. There is something about idealism that moves us as Americans. For it was idealism that formed and shaped us as a nation. The ideal that man—with all his flaws –is something more than wealth, and birth, and title, and social station when it comes to...

Of all the politicians I've encountered in the course of doing my job, there have been some that I've admired and some that I've loathed. But there's only one politician I've ever pitied, and that's Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy. I met Kennedy three summers ago when I was reporting a profile of Newt Gingrich and both politicians were giving speeches to a business conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Although I was there to hear Gingrich's talk, it was Kennedy's that made the bigger impression, if only because it was so bad. Kennedy was speaking about his legislative passion—the issue...

It may be months before Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is filled, but it took only minutes Wednesday for the chatter to start over possible successors - among them his mourning widow, Victoria. The stakes are high. Kennedy's death now deprives Democrats of the 60-vote "supermajority" that the party could theoretically use to push through health care reform and other top item

I'm really sick of these politicians gaming the system and exerting a lifetime of influence over us. Ted Kennedy was the poster-boy for nepotism and beltway corruption. If you can't do what you need to do in 2-3 terms, it's time for you to go. Let's force them to get real jobs and live under some of the policies they legislate. Perhaps it will refresh their perspective on how average Americans live.

The passing of Ted Kennedy has tormented me all this long day. It started with drinking whiskey for breakfast. ... Let Teddy not be remembered as a great man, for he wasn’t. Laud him not for being bipartisan, for he did so only to incrementally advance his autocratic nightmares. And let him not bask in the glow of his older brothers who had some notion of right, whereas Teddy knew only expediency. We should remember Ted Kennedy for those elements of his character that defined him best. For accusing a Supreme Court nominee of ...

Ted Kennedy was left paralyzed after being hit with a devastating seizure, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Although he'd been fighting a valiant battle against brain cancer for more than a year, the 77-year-old senator was jolted by a frightening seizure in mid-July that paralyzed the right side of his body and left his speech slurred.

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AugustReview.com [Editor's note: members of the Trilateral Commission and companies with Commission representation appear in bold type.] Since 1973, this writer has made inquiry as to the location and ownership of the vast stores of monetary gold (400 oz., .999 pure bars) in the world. There has not been a formal audit on Fort Knox, for instance, since the Eisenhower administration. Official statistics on gold holdings are often contradictory. Getting plain answers from any Central Bank in the world, including the Fed, is virtually impossible. This paper points out a pattern of manipulation that has been clearly observed by many...

It is a defining indicator that the embarrassing, self inflicted dumbing down of America is all but complete when people vote against their own self-interest. I'll say it: it is obvious that many Americans are not very smart. Quite dumb, actually. To listen to the Sirius radio interview with Obama voters from Harlem mindlessly cheering on Obama as the interviewer attributes McCain's policies to the Democrats is pathetic and an inescapable indicator of the blind leading the blind. Not Godbless or goddam America! God help America. Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better...

I didn't know quite how to begin writing about this organization called The Charter for Compassion, a new peace outfit fashioned by the technofascists over at T.E.D. and created by T.E.D. prize winner and Islamic sympathizer Karen Armstrong., whose interpretation of religion is ideological, elitist and decidedly wrong. I mean, when something is just so wrong, like a cake made with salt instead of sugar, one generally will just throw it away. However, if you notice that people are beginning to eat these salt cakes, you start to worry for their health and their minds, not to mention their taste....

A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions. The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet at www.charterforcompassion.org springs from a "wish" granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong at a premier Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in California. "Tedizens" include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin along with other Internet icons as well as celebrities such as Forest Whittaker and Cameron Diaz. Wishes granted at TED envision ways to better the world and come with a promise that...

If you drink and drive this weekend, Austin police say they will find proof through your breath or your blood. You can't refuse because this coming weekend will be a "no refusal weekend" in Austin. City leaders gathered outside Austin City Hall Wednesday to let people know that court-ordered blood-alcohol tests will be administered to people suspected of driving while intoxicated. Refusing a court ordered blood alcohol test could mean more criminal citations on top of a guilty DWI. A mobile blood-alcohol testing center -- BAT mobile -- will be available all weekend to administer blood tests for those suspected...

Tune in, Ted is laying it down. All about the 2nd amendment and citizen rights! Slaying Obama on his opinion for a gun free society.

Three-month Libor marks biggest jump in nine years TED spread widens to level not seen since Black Monday 1987 By Lisa Twaronite, MarketWatch Last update: 5:37 p.m. EDT Sept. 17, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A closely watched measure of global borrowing costs made its biggest jump in nine years Wednesday and another lending risk gauge rose to a level not seen since Black Monday in October of 1987, as banks grew increasingly wary to lend to each other and sell-shocked investors sought refuge in safe-haven short-term Treasury bills. Three-month Libor in U.S. dollars jumped 19 basis points to 3.0625%...

Global credit system suffers cardiac arrest on US crash By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 11:59pm BST 17/09/2008 Have your say Read comments The global credit system almost grinds to a halt as yields on US Treasury bills reach zero for the first time since the Great Depression, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The global credit system came close to total seizure yesterday. Key parts of the derivatives market shut down and a panic flight to safety depressed the yield on three-month US Treasury bills to almost zero for the first since the Great Depression in 1934. The closely-watched TED-spread measuring stress in...

BOSTON — The leader of the Massachusetts House says he will support giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim successor to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy if that becomes necessary. The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of that authority in 2004 because of fears he would name a Republican to replace U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he had been elected president. Instead, state law now requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs. But House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi said yesterday if Kennedy...

One of the ways the Dems advertise their universal healthcare plan is by saying, "all Americans should have access to the same medical coverage our congressmen have." Well, Nancy Pelosi is taking this to another level: she used Senator Kennedy's tragic situation with brain cancer to advertise their healthcare plan like a used car salesman, "I have confidence, though, because Sen. Kennedy has been a fighter all his life. He is a fighter, a fighter for our children, a fighter for our seniors, HE IS A CHAMPION FOR HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS." Does this woman have no shame?!?

Ted Kennedy has called Nantucket Sound near his Massachusetts estate “a national treasure” — but that didn’t stop the senator from having oil dumped from his yacht into its waters. A local photographer spotted an oil slick coming from Kennedy’s yacht Mya as Kennedy and his guests left the vessel in a launch following a race that ended in Hyannis, the Cape Cod Today newspaper reported. The lensman was so shocked that he rowed his dinghy out to question the crew member left aboard the yacht. He asked the crewman, “What the hell are you doing?” The crewman said that...

In a TODAY show exclusive, Sens. Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama speak with Matt Lauer about the Kennedy endorsement....Kennedy parsed his support for Obama over long-time friend Sen. Hillary Clinton. “I have great respect for President Clinton and great respect for Senator Clinton,” Kennedy said, sitting alongside Obama. “But this race really isn’t about President Clinton. It’s a race of enormous importance and consequence for our country... Obama, meanwhile, was eager to reach new voters. “I have to make my case,” Obama told Lauer from Capitol Hill. “But obviously Ted Kennedy allows some people to listen who might not have...

 Jan. 29, 2008... based on the following news stories: Ted Kennedy backs Obama for president Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama       This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  iowapresidentialwatch.com

WASHINGTON - Senator Barack Obama will collect the endorsement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy today,... Kennedy confidants said Massachusetts' senior senator will appear this morning with Obama and Kennedy's niece, Caroline Kennedy, at a rally at American University in Washington to announce his support. Their joint appearance will suggest Obama's claim to the mantle of generations of Kennedys, including Caroline's father, the late President Kennedy...The coveted endorsement is a huge blow to Clinton, who is both a senatorial colleague and a friend of the Kennedy family. In a campaign where Clinton has trumpeted her experience over Obama's call for hope...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/ted-kennedy-to.html January 27, 2008 12:26 PM ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., will endorse Barack Obama's presidential bid on Monday in Washington, a source close to Kennedy tells ABC News.

To this day, only one person truly knows what happened on a lonely Massachusetts bridge on the night of July 18, 1969. Sometime that evening, a car driven by US senator Ted Kennedy plunged into the icy water below. While the politician survived, his passenger, a 28-year-old aide, was not so lucky. Mary Jo Kopechne died on the road from Chappaquiddick that Friday night. In the ensuing scandal, the presidential hopes of the last of the Kennedy brothers were destroyed. Now the senator has signed a £4million deal to write his memoirs, due out in 2010, raising hopes he is...

Dear Maceman, I'm writing today to ask for your vote -- and this time it's to bring the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" to Springfield, Massachusetts! The famous TV series is set in a city called Springfield, and celebrated its 400th episode this year. The creators of "The Simpsons" are releasing a major movie version on July 27th, and they're holding a nationwide vote on the USA Today website to see which of our nation's Springfields will win the honor of hosting the premiere. Voting begins today and runs through July 9th, and the winner will be announced soon after...

The California conference of entrepreneurs, scientists, celebs, and politicians highlights the environment, Rwanda, and war photos, among other topics In recent years, the TED conference has gained a reputation for blissfully big ideas buoyed by unrelenting optimism. So few conference goers were prepared for venture capitalist John Doerr to choke up with emotion as he kicked off the second day of talks on Mar. 9. "I'm scared," he told the audience, looking down at his 15-year-old daughter in the front row. "I don't think we're going to make it." Doerr issued a passionate call to action for everyone to make...

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Top Washington lawyer Ted Olson and his fiancee, Lady Booth, tied the knot yesterday in Napa Valley, Calif., starting a happy new chapter in Olson's personal life. "She's a Southern girl," he told us. "She's just a marvelous person." Olson shot to national fame when he successfully argued the 2000 election case for George W. Bush in the Supreme Court, and was named solicitor general by the grateful president. On Sept. 11, 2001 -- his 61st birthday -- his wife, conservative commentator Barbara Olson, was killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. His personal loss became part...

A "Foley problem" at the heart of Ted Strickland's Democratic gubernatorial campaign in Ohio deepened over the weekend when an anonymous e-mailer revealed the identity of the "mystery man" in the Strickland organization who has a history of sexual misconduct involving minors going back to 1994. Bryan Specht, now age 33, was the campaign manager for Rep. Ted Strickland's 1998 congressional re-election. Specht was named as the perpetrator in the criminal records distributed in an anonymous e-mail circulated in Ohio last Friday and forwarded to this author. The anonymous e-mail apparently was sent simultaneously to several different Ohio attorneys and...

WASHINGTON -- The most powerful U.S. senators run on a high-octane mix of fear and IOUs -- they cause the former and collect the latter. For 38 years, few have been as fearsome or held as many chits as Ted Stevens, the irascible Republican from Alaska. But four days before Christmas, when he tried to cash in those IOUs to approve oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Stevens found himself stymied by a freshman senator from a Democratic state: Maria Cantwell. The result was a spectacular 12-minute meltdown on the Senate floor. Waving his hands, his voice rising...

As I was leaving the House chambers for the weekend our Democrat Speaker of the House announced that the coming Monday would be the final day of this year’s General Assembly. He went on to state that there were still numerous resolutions on the calendar which we would need to be addressed prior to the summer adjournment. Interestingly, he specifically mentioned that one of the resolutions we would be hearing was being carried by the House Majority Leader Alice Madden (D), honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. As a strong pro-life legislator I was disgusted...

New York. After his second smash-up in three weeks, Patrick Kennedy was escorted home by obliging cops and to hell with any test for booze or drugs. Tests are for the lower orders, not Kennedys. Chappaquid-ding one’s way out of trouble is in the Kennedy tradition. A smash-up is followed by a cover-up, then by denial of responsibility due to circumstances beyond their control, all neatly presented in a press conference for genuflecting hacks, and then on to rehab. Congressman Kennedy says that he doesn’t remember anything about the crash. He would, wouldn’t he? He was speeding, driving in the...

Since immigration and Patrick Kennedy are popular issues being talked about, here is part of the voting record of Patrick Kennedy on immigration. Rep. Kennedy voted againstH.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. H.R. 4437, as amended and passed, includes major improvements in interior enforcement and border security, as well as a reduction in legal immigration numbers. Among its most significant provisions are: a requirement that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in the country; additional security fencing along the Mexican...

Federal regulators have voted to impose severe restrictions on salmon fishing off the coasts of Oregon and Northern California to protect dwindling populations in the Klamath River. The Pacific Fishery Management Council decided to close about 700 miles of coastline to commercial salmon fishing for most of June and July. Those are generally the most productive months of the season.

Teddy’s kids well-represented in police log By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Sunday, April 9, 2006 Who are these illegal aliens who ‘‘play by the rules” that Ted Kennedy keeps talking about? These were his talking points again this week - that illegals ‘‘work hard” and ‘‘pay taxes” and, despite all evidence to the contrary, ‘‘play by the rules.” Does Ted Kennedy deign to dip into the police logs and blotters of his home state’s newspapers? This is not to say that some Americans don’t break every law in the book with impunity - just ask the Hero of Chappaquiddick....

Arguing that President Bush should have followed the strategy of diplomacy employed in the Cuban missile crisis by his brothers rather than to have launched a pre-emptive strike against Saddam Hussein, Sen. Ted Kennedy castigated the president for his attack on Iraq. In his new book, "America Back on Track," his first since 1982, Kennedy claimed that his two brothers' refusal to launch a pre-emptive strike on Fidel Castro when it was learned back in 1962 that there were missiles in Cuba aimed at the United States was the proper approach to the crisis. Kennedy writes that they were right...

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Ted Turner took shots Tuesday at the media for its coverage of sex and violence, at himself for losing control of the news network he founded, and at the Bush administration for going to war in Iraq. The outspoken billionaire philanthropist made his comments as he was being honored for promoting global understanding. "There's an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party," Turner told a crowd gathered at a downtown hotel. "Who needs it all?" Turner, 67, said he regrets losing control of...

Sheep don't mix well with grizzly bears and wolves. Now they won't mix at all on more than 70,000 acres in the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. A 74,000-acre sheep grazing allotment south of Big Timber in the Gallatin National Forest has been permanently closed and the ranchers who used it for generations have been paid to move their sheep elsewhere... The agreement is the eighth -- and second-largest -- in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in recent years that has led to the retirement of about 300,000 acres from grazing. The latest involves the Ash Mountain and Iron Mountain allotments used for generations...

Gnawing leisurely on the remains of a moose carcass, the wolf pack's alpha male seemed unaware that mortal danger was coming ever closer. Suddenly the eight-member rival pack burst into view. The alpha scrambled to his feet, but too late. Howling and barking, the enemy chased him down and mercilessly attacked, killing the hapless victim within a couple of minutes. It's not unusual for the gray wolves on Isle Royale National Park to target each other, said John Vucetich, a Michigan Tech University wildlife biologist who witnessed the carnage from an airplane in January. But the rival pack's brazen invasion...

Dear Maceman, Recent polls show that only 34% of Americans approve of the job President Bush is doing. Yet time and again a majority of Congress champions his decisions and supports his misguided agenda. There's something wrong with that equation. The need for congressional oversight of the executive branch has never been stronger, yet time and again we watch party loyalists give wide berth to this Administration's outrageous agenda. We can't let that happen any longer, and the 2006 elections are our best chance to make things right. America needs more leaders who will stand up to this Administration's reckless...

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Frank Spencer Harm told his neighbors he was an ex-cop. He told his mother he was in the witness protection program. But a Santa Clara County sheriff's detective says Harm was a killer on the lam for more than 33 years, until authorities arrested him in Minnesota this week. Harm was jailed Thursday on a warrant charging him with shooting 25-year-old Fred Izzarelli to death after Harm broke into a Monte Sereno bungalow -- apparently in search of drugs -- where Izzarelli was living in 1972. Sheriff's Lt. Pedro Contreras said Harm was ``on the radar right from the beginning,''...

Dear Maceman, Last week, Samuel Alito became a Supreme Court Justice, adding a strong believer in overreaching executive power to the Nation's highest court. Instead of using the opportunity to unite Americans behind a Justice who would reflect the mainstream values of Americans, President Bush caved in to the extreme right-wing of his party and gave them the kind of nominee they wanted -- after they'd flexed their right-wing muscle by forcing Harriet Miers to withdraw her nomination. But we have another outrage to deal with. Under the cloak of national security, President Bush has ordered a secret surveillance program...