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A New Senior Senator: For Kerry, The Mission is Redefined

Via The Boston Globe:

Kerry, speaking in a telephone interview after visiting the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod late yesterday, sounded emotional as he described Kennedy’s impact on his life and his training as a legislator.

“Obviously, Ted Kennedy has had a huge influence on my thoughts about politics, and being a student of his for 25 [...]

Conservative Fiction

Oh my… Sarah Palin is penning her memoir:
“There’s been so much written about and spoken about in the mainstream media and in the anonymous blogosphere world, that this will be a wonderful, refreshing chance for me to get to tell my story, that a lot of people have asked about, unfiltered,” the Alaska governor and [...]

John Kerry: Take Us Out To The Ballgame

Cross posted from Article of Faith:
John Kerry is as American as apple pie and baseball…for real.
“The pending deal to shift Major League Baseball’s Extra Innings package exclusively to DirecTV starting in April is still not ready to be announced, but Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, would like to undo it.
“In that desire, he is [...]

M. Charles Bakst: Kerry is Right to Assail Bush

Columnsist M. Charles Bakst of the Providence Journal takes an interesting look at John Kerry’s speech last Monday at Brown University. His column is peppered with some bits of a phone interview he did with Kerry the following day. One comment that Bakst made led me believe that he may not have been paying attention [...]

Music Legend Fats Domino Has Been Rescued

A little good news from New Orleans…
Fats Domino apparently rode out the hurricane in his New Orleans home and was rescued by boat from his flooded neighborhood, his daughter Karen Domino White said Thursday.
The 77-year-old R&B legend had been reported missing Thursday by his longtime agent, Al Embry, and his niece, Checquoline Davis.
White said late [...]

Tourist Hire Buses for Own Evacuation, Government Commandeers Them for Residents

Stranded tourists in New Orleans paid $25,000 for private buses so they could be evacuated from New Orleans.
After waiting hours, they learned government officials had commandeered their buses to evacuate others.
“We’re the forgotten about,” Dewey told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday. “The Louisiana officials are trying to get their people out. They [...]