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Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence By Kevin Mooney on 6.22.10 @ 6:08AM Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's self-serving, secret correspondence with Soviet agents during the height of the Cold War included proposals for collaborative efforts designed to undermine official U.S. policy set by Democratic and Republican administrations, KGB documents show. With the media now reporting on the late senator's just released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file, now is an opportune time for a more expansive investigation into Kennedy's KGB contacts. The agency took a keen interest in a 1961 "fact-finding" trip the Massachusetts Democrat took to Mexico and other parts of...

Open Letter to the GOP by Alan Caruba Posted Jul 11, 2006 I recently received a direct mail notice from Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican National Committee saying that, “Our records show we have not yet received your 2006 Republican National Committee membership contribution.” One assumes a lot of these notices have been mailed to folks like myself who have decided not to financially support the GOP this year. They won’t miss my donation because it’s always small. It’s not that I won’t vote the Republican ticket in November. I probably will, but that’s because the Democrats in my...

Kennedy’s brother-in-law charged with fraud in La. By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS proberts@theadvocate.com Advocate staff writer Federal authorities in Louisiana have charged the brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of committing millions in bank fraud. A bill of information filed Wednesday in New Orleans federal court claims Raymond Reggie, 43, of New Orleans submitted fake documents to get a loan from Hibernia National Bank in December 2000. In the bill of information, federal authorities said Reggie “submitted fictitious documents purporting to be a contract” between his company, Media Direct, and the U.S. Census Bureau. A separate bill of information also filed...

Breaux leaves bipartisan legacy Analysts assess senator's career By GERARD SHIELDS gshields@theadvocate.com Advocate Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- When U.S. Sen. John Breaux, D-La., was first elected to the Senate in 1986, he was invited to a retirement dinner for outgoing senators. "I remember saying 'Boy, these guys are old,'" Breaux, 60, recalls. "Now they're having a retirement dinner for me." After 32 years in Congress and four years initially working as a congressional aide, Breaux's days in office are winding down as political analysts begin to assess what will be his historical stamp on the institution. Breaux is most remembered...

Old fool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 21, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com There's something seriously wrong with America when an old fool like Fritz Hollings can be re-elected every six years to the U.S. Senate by South Carolina voters despite his mental lapses, despite his foot-in-mouth problems, despite his senility, despite his lack of sound judgment and grasp on the facts. He should be an embarrassment to South Carolina, because he's certainly an embarrassment to the nation. The latest senior moment for the senior senator from South Carolina came earlier this month when he wrote a column for a...

Senator Hatch: Provoking A Split Within Conservatism…Again Paul Weyrich Monday, Apr. 05, 2004 The year was 1976. Ronald Reagan had lost the GOP's presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. The prospects for conservative victories in Congress were not very promising. But I was sure I had found a rising star. He was articulate. He was charismatic. He claimed to be a principled conservative. I thought of him as a potential presidential candidate. As chairman of the Free Congress PAC, I backed him at the state convention (In his state you have to get a certain percentage of the convention vote to...

Defining Kerry downward Posted: March 15, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Will George W. Bush share the fate of his father and be turned out of office 18 months after having won a military triumph that vaulted him to 90 percent approval? So it seemed during the primaries, as almost a dozen Democratic candidates pummeled Bush daily for having misled the nation on Iraq and presided over the greatest job loss since Hoover. These same two months have been the halcyon days of John F. Kerry. Every Tuesday night, he has appeared before the nation smiling in victory....

Two Who Made a Difference Paul Craig Roberts Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003 America lost two tax-cutting heroes last week – former Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley and former Republican senator from Delaware, William Roth. I knew both men well, having worked with Roth and his staff in creating the Kemp-Roth bill and having served on Bartley's editorial page. Both men did much for America: Roth cut tax rates, gave us the Roth IRA and championed the taxpayer against IRS abuse; Bartley acquainted influential people with an alternative policy to Keynesian demand management, which had mired the economy in...

<p>President Bush's resolve to win the war on terrorism, his tax-relief drive and initiatives to improve America's schools are reasons voters should re-elect him next year, Vice President Dick Cheney said in Jackson on Friday.</p> <p>"I'm confident that next year, the American people will re-elect President Bush for a job well done," Cheney told 200 Mississippi Republicans at a $1,000 per-ticket Bush campaign fund-raiser at the Clarion Hotel.</p>

Without Allegiance To The Constitution, Party Partisanship Means Absolutely Nothing! By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon December 9, 2003 Conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, labor under the assumption that voting for a Republican candidate somehow translates into a vote for conservative policies. Such is not the case, however. A much better case could be made for the proposition that, in reality, Republicans contribute to the growth and expansion of government to equal or even greater degrees than do Democrats. For example, since taking office, President G.W. Bush has superintended over the greatest expansion of federal discretionary expenditures...

The Neanderthal Creed November 18, 2003 Senator Edward Kennedy, who prides himself on opposing discrimination against all minorities, committed a gaffe the other day. Speaking of President Bush’s judicial appointees, he pledged that the Senate won’t confirm any “Neanderthals.” As a Neanderthal, I find that shockingly insensitive. Senator Kennedy is, after all, the uncle-in-law of California’s new governor, who achieved great fame playing Neanderthals in the movies. How can he be so openly contemptuous of the concerns of the Neanderthal community? President Bush hasn’t even nominated any real Neanderthals to the Federal judiciary. His choices are all far too “progressive”...

Limbaugh the Lawbreaker October 14, 2003 Doesn’t anyone have mixed feelings about Rush Limbaugh? His announcement that he has a drug addiction, and will spend a month in rehab, has brought forth two reactions: unalloyed sympathy from those who share his views, and fierce condemnation from those who don’t. The former, the general conservative response to the news, I can at least understand. But the other doesn’t make much sense. It generally runs like this: “Limbaugh is so judgmental about other people, it serves him right. Maybe this experience will teach him a little tolerance.” Say what? I disagree with...

In support of Janice Rogers Brown Posted: October 27, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com I don't usually get too excited about judicial nominations by the Bush administration. But, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Occasionally, even the Bush administration gets one right. And that's what has happened with the nomination for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The nominee's name is Janice Rogers Brown. Repeat that name over and over to yourself. Make sure you know it and you make it known to others. You will want...

America is still a great country, and it would be cruel to judge it by its patriots. I mean the sort of “patriots” who think the way to express your love for this country is to insult other countries. The events of 9/11 have brought the nastiest jingoists out of the woodwork, and their most toxic venom has been directed against France for opposing war on Iraq. Now that the war has failed in its express aims, the French are hated worse than ever. After all, they have committed the extremely annoying faux pas of being proved right by events....

Iraq & Tet, George W. & LBJ Posted: September 29, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "Things perceived as real are real in their consequences." So it has been wisely written, and repeated so often it has become a cliche. The Tet Offensive of 1968 was a desperate roll of the dice by the Viet Cong. It ended in their disastrous defeat. Some 50,000 of its critical cadre were killed, and all the gains of Tet were rolled back by the Americans in three weeks. But America, which had been hearing only triumphal news of U.S. victories,...

GOP has edge in donations for U.S. Senate campaign Dennis Camire / Times Washington Bureau Posted on December 6, 2002 WASHINGTON - Trying to score one more political victory, Republican lawmakers and party committees have donated at least $311,000 to help Suzanne Haik Terrell unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in the Senate race in Louisiana. At least 19 Republican senators, 15 GOP House members and 13 state Republican committees have chipped in to help Terrell during the past six weeks. Meanwhile, fewer Democrats have shipped less money to the Bayou State to aid Landrieu, who is in a contest...