http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tedkennedy/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:30:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419662/posts There have been no recent "scientific" polls for the January 19 Massachusetts special election that will fill the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy's death. But there has been one kinda-sloppy telephone survey suggesting that Republican contender Scott Brown, a state senator in the Bay State legislature, might actually defeat Attorney General Martha Coakley, who won the early-December Democratic primary. I am content with Coakley, as I wrote a while back. But I voted for (and contributed to) Alan Khazei, the founder of City Year, who is one of the best of the "community organizers" I've met. He's a comer... http://www.tnr.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419662/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:30:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417914/posts HotAir is a big voice in the conservative blogsophere and has done much to advance the cause of those wishing to stop and reverse the growth of a large central government. Unfortunately Hot Air's Ed Morrissey has brashly thrown his weight behind Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election. This is disturbing and disheartening for every tea party, small government loving soul in America. While I certainly cannot blame casual Massachusetts Republicans for getting excited over Brown's possible win over Martha Coakley, it becomes much harder to justify it in the case of Ed whose life revolves around politics and... Right Condition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417914/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:02:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413906/posts I swear we don’t plan this stuff out. But no sooner than does a series of articles about the Collier County Sheriff’s Office program to deport troublesome illegal aliens conclude than an illegal alien is in the headlines, and not in a good way. The sheriff’s program, as outlined in stories Sunday and Monday, targets illegal immigrants who run afoul of the law. Deputies, through extra training, are empowered to enforce federal laws and begin deportation proceedings as they see fit. In places without the program, local authorities have to rely on federal agents to undertake the deportation process against... Naples News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413906/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:37:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts The whitewashing of Ted Kennedy continued on the cover of Parade magazine, a supplement to many Sunday newspapers around the country. Dotson Rader interviewed Victoria Kennedy, the second wife of the late senator. Decades of womanizing and a woman’s death at Chappaquiddick after Kennedy left the scene of an accident weren’t really noteworthy. One large bold pull quote read "Nobody had a better sense of what was right than Teddy." "Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne" was not a sentence that appeared in the article. The other large pull quote from Mrs. Kennedy was "He was elected to make... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412685/posts Politics: Sen. Mary Landrieu was the new "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up his state's future Medicaid tab. Maybe we should just put Senate votes up on eBay. Nelson, the 60th vote in the middle-of-the-night Senate party line vote on health care reform, will go down in American political history as the inventor of the permanent earmark. His seemingly principled stand against including federal funding for abortion evaporated like the morning dew as he decided to take what was behind door No. 1. The deal for Nelson includes special Medicaid funding for Nebraska, along... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412685/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412545/posts "I worked with him on many issues across party lines. There has never a major reform accomplished in the history of this country that hasn't been bipartisan, and he certainly, uh...all of the negotiations and efforts that I made with him, we never engaged in this kind of unsavory process of offering people different deals, which in the end cost people from other states lots of money and put burdens on them." ABC / Good Morning America via YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412545/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:03:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411749/posts The Moment Ted Kennedy Would Not Want To Lose By Victoria Reggie Kennedy Sunday, December 20, 2009 My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a privilege, and that this year the stars -- and competing interests -- were finally aligned to allow our nation to move forward with fundamental reform. He believed that health-care reform was essential to the financial stability of our nation's working families and of our economy as a whole. Still, Ted knew... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411749/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:12:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411181/posts My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a privilege, and that this year the stars -- and competing interests -- were finally aligned to allow our nation to move forward with fundamental reform. He believed that health-care reform was essential to the financial stability of our nation's working families and of our economy as a whole. Still, Ted knew that accomplishing reform would be difficult. If it were easy, he told me, it would have... Washington (Com) Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411181/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406685/posts On the Next Right blog serial poster Ironman calls for Republicans to seriously contest the January 19 special election to fill Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. I’ve argued that this is a long shot, and Ironman doesn’t persuade me that it isn’t. But he does make one good statistical point. While Barack Obama’s 62%-36% margin in Massachusetts makes it seem out of reach for a Republican, Republican Chris Christie did win the gubernatorial race in New Jersey which Obama carried 57%-42% Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406685/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:48:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403360/posts With the clock ticking down towards the close of the polls at 8 p.m., some communities reported low voter turnout in the special primary elections for US Senate. People breezed past community centers, gymnasiums, town halls, and other polling places without a second thought, the majority paying no mind to the race to fill the office left vacant by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Four Democrats and two Republicans .... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403360/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403334/posts BOSTON – Massachusetts had a light turnout for party primaries Tuesday as voters took the first step to fill the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly a half century by Edward M. Kennedy.Four Democrats, from political insiders to newcomers, and two Republicans were competing for their respective party nomination in the quick campaign to succeed Kennedy. He died of brain cancer in late August at age 77 after holding his seat since 1962. The primary winners will face off in a general election on Jan. 19.Kennedy's widow, Vicki, called each of the Democrats early Tuesday to wish them well, an... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403334/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:20:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402131/posts Tuesday, Dec 8, is the primary election for the US Senate seat, formerly held by Ted Kennedy. There are contested elections for both the Democrat and Republican candidates. The general election will be on January 19. The seat is currently held by Kennedy's former aide, Paul Kirk, who was appointed by the governor after well-publicized (and pretty sleazy) vote by the Legislature to have an interim appointee because of their fear that a vote on the Obama health care package might come up before a special election could be held. We were going to wait until the general election in... massresistance.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402131/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401327/posts Six Candidates Seek Ted Kennedy’s SeatBy JIM HICKEY Islanders go the polls in the state primary on Tuesday to cast votes that will help choose Democratic and Republican candidates to run for the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant in August when longtime Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who held the seat for 46 years — died after a 14-month battle with brain cancer. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every town. The four Democratic candidates are Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Stephen Pagliuca, a managing partner of the Boston Celtics, U.S. Rep. Mike... MV Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401327/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:32:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399567/posts The House votes 224-199 to cancel a one-year repeal of the estate tax, set to begin next month, and instead permanently extends the current tax, with a top rate of 45 percent on estates larger than $3.5 million. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399567/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2396412/posts It may not seem like it, but there is an election for United States Senator around the corner. Yes, its true. The election for Ted Kennedy’s old seat is speeding ahead. While the Democrats are embroiled in a heated primary, Republican candidate Scott Brown is quietly running a solid campaign. In most states, Brown would be crushing his fumbling liberal opponents. But this is Massachusetts. However, Democratic enthusiasm is in the dumps, while Republican enthusiasm is up. And there is a wild card. The election is being held in January, when many “snowbirds”, retirees with winter homes elsewhere, are gone;... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2396412/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:25:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392087/posts Massachusetts voters will have to wait until Jan. 19 to elect a successor to Sen. Edward Kennedy, but Gov. Deval Patrick is pushing to name an interim appointee in the meantime.... Right now, Massachusetts law does not allow the governor to appoint a temporary Senate replacement. But Patrick said he supported plans for a hearing Sept. 9 on a bill that would give him the power to do just that. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392087/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:30:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390486/posts A ceremonial moment: The grand opening of an Attleboro Department of Motor Vehicles office. A chance for a rising political star to mingle -- especially now that State Senator Scott Brown is a Republican candidate for the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. “In less than three and a half weeks we got twenty-four thousand signatures and twenty-thousand of those were certified. That was the first goal. The second goal is to start raising money on our own.” NECN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390486/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:17:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379461/posts At least 12 people were killed and 31 others were wounded in a mass shooting incident Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, military officials said. The shooter was shot to death, they said. More shots were reported later in the afternoon, reported NBC affiliate KCEN-TV of Waco, which said no further details were immediately available. A senior administration official told NBC News analyst Roger Cressey that the suspect who was in custody was an Army major with an Arabic-sounding name.snip Milly Land, who works at the base fitness center, said she was headed for the graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. at... NBC/MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379461/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:12:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377567/posts Richmond, California, is a town with a lot of questions and no immediate answers following the brutal gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl at her homecoming dance — an attack watched by at least ten other people. Richmond — located in the East Bay area of California, about 15 miles north of San Francisco — is a poverty-stricken industrial town that few outside of Northern California heard of until this week. It has been shoved into the spotlight, and the residents are angry over the public discussion of the incident. But somebody has to be at fault, starting... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377567/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377027/posts NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A new charge has been issued against a man police describe as a suspected serial rapist. Mauricio Morales is already in jail and charged with raping two Nashville women in separate cases. Metro police believe Morales is the man behind the rape of a 10-year-old girl in her own South Nashville home near Old Hickory Boulevard and Nolensville Pike. The alleged incident happened back in April. Crime Scene investigators collected evidence from her room and the TBI crime lab determined the DNA matched Mauricio Morales. A Grand Jury indicted him Friday on the new charges. Morales had... Nashville Channel 5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377027/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 01:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360122/posts In a draft chapter that failed to make the final editor’s cut, the late Senator Ted Kennedy boasted that he had slept with more than 1,000 women during his life. The Senator also recounted that he was quite pleased that it only cost him a total of $10 million in hush money. “In a way, the drowning of Mary Jo helped keep down the costs,” Kennedy wrote. “My ability to skate on that convinced many of my subsequent conquests to be reasonable in their demands lest a similar fate befall them.” The chapter also expressed some regret over the Kopechne... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360122/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:14:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2359825/posts Ol'd Ted is gone but not forgotten. Strange Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2359825/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357706/posts 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... Cleveland Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357706/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357019/posts Ted Kennedy slept with more than a thousand women - and spent at least $10 million in hush money over the years to keep his skirt-chasing a secret! The late senator made those sensational confessions in a chapter of his autobiography, but horrified family members and advisers cut them out. Before he died of brain cancer at age 77 on Aug. 25, the womanizing politician also revealed that he planned to seduce Mary Jo Kopechne on the night she drowned, said a close source. "While dictating his memoirs into a tape recorder, Ted decided to tell the whole truth about... National Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357019/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356517/posts Ave atque vale I was overseas when Senator Edward Kennedy died, and a European reporter asked me what my “most vivid memory” of the great man. I didn’t like to say, because it didn’t seem quite the appropriate occasion. But my only close encounter with the Lion of the Senate was many years ago at Logan Airport late one night. A handful of us, tired and bedraggled, were standing on the water shuttle waiting to be ferried across the harbor to downtown Boston. A sixth gentleman hopped aboard, wearing the dark-suited garb of the advance man, and had a word... National Review and Steynonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356517/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:04:22 GMT