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Stop The Kennedy Smears

Via the NY Times…  Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are leading the fight against a documentary about the Kennedy’s being slated for the History Channel:
A new mini-series about John F. Kennedy’s presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage [...]

Taps for Ted

A lone bugler played Taps as Senator Ted Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetary next to his brothers John and Bobby.
Ted Kennedy was “the soul of the Democratic Party, and the lion of the United States Senate.”
It was a long and sorrow filled day. My heart goes out to Vickie Reggie Kennedy, the [...]

Republican Senators Dodging Republican Convention!

According to Congress Daily, 9 of 12 targeted Republicans running in the most competitive U.S. Senate races this fall “are either skipping the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., or have not decided whether to attend.”
Among those who will not attend: Ted Stevens of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Bob Schaffer of Colorado.
Six others [...]

Senator John Kerry on Senator Ted Kennedy

Senator John Kerry is reported to currently be at Massachusetts General Hospital with Senator Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family. Via my contact in Senator Kerry’s office, his press office has released the following statement in regards to Senator Edward Kennedy:
“Ted Kennedy is beloved and respected on both sides of the aisle in the Senate in [...]

Obama in Portland: America is Back!

EDITOR’S NOTE: From Sandnsea on DU:
So much to tell! If you get a chance to go hear this man speak, GO!
Foremost, He said: “We Can End This War Without George Bush.” He is echoing Kerry, Richardson, Dodd, etc – they are going to spin this Petraeus report and it is important to Call Your [...]

Privatization, Human Sacrifice And The Architects Of War

Appeasing The Gods Of The Shareholders

There was a time when, as a matter of policy, America went to war only as a response to an attack by an aggressor. In 1962 John Kennedy had every reason to make war with Cuba and Russia when Kruschev talked Fidel into parking several dozen  Soviet nuclear missiles ten [...]

If West is Going Democrats’ Direction, Massachusetts Liberals Pointed the Way

It seems like some political consultants can’t stop bashing the state (and in the case of the Northeast, the region) that launched the American Revolution. In today’s Washington Post it is “revealed” that the West is shifting towards the Democrats (as if the West hasn’t been doing that since ther late 1980s). But [...]

The Budget, Taxes: Myths about the GOP, Dems, and Taxes and Spending

It is not unusual to hear that the GOP are more conservative on fiscal matters and that Democrats attachment to spending and “big government” has caused their downfall. A corrollary to this is that Bill Clinton gave the Democrats a much needed makeover and remade the Democrats into the party of fiscal responsibility.
On taxes, [...]