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Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts died August 25, 2009 following a long battle with brain cancer. Kennedy was 77.
Considered by friends and foes alike as one of the most effective legislators of the past several decades, Ted Kennedy became known as the "lion of the Senate" following his crucial roles in the passage of such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Kennedy was also a longtime champion of health care reform, which the senator referred to as "the cause of his life."
As the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy and 1968 presidential candidate and former Senator Robert Kennedy — both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s — Ted Kennedy was expected by many to follow a similar path towards the White House. However, those aspirations were cut short following a controversial car accident in 1969 where Kennedy's car was driven off a bridge at Chappaquiddick near Cape Cod. Kennedy survived the crash, but his female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne did not.
An attempt several years later to challenge incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980 would prove unsuccessful. Kennedy did however serve eight full terms in the Senate, making him one of only six senators to remain there more than 40 years (only Sen. Robert Byrd has served longer).
You'll find bloggers talking about the great Senator Ted Kennedy at sites like AmericaBlog.
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MSNBCs Snyderman: Pro-choice Ted Kennedy Was A Man of His Church
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After airing what she described as a "hard-hitting" ad by the Center for Reproductive Rights which ominously warned, "Dont let Congress ban abortion coverage millions of women already have," MSNBCs Dr. Nancy Snyderman today lamented to Politicos Jeanne Cummings that with Sen. Ted Kennedy gone, Democrats lack a ...6 hours ago -
Labor Boss Says He Hopes to ‘Take the Corporate Community and Its Greed Out of the Picture’
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Advocates of single-payer health care will not stop there, according to Jerry Tucker, former member of the UAW International Executive Board who now represents the group, Labor for Single Payer. Speaking during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. ...14 hours ago -
The Bishops are Back, For Now, Thanks to the Party and President They Opposed
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Filed under: Senate , House , Democrats , Republicans , Barack Obama , Religion , Nancy Pelosi , Abortion , Health Care , Gay Rights , Immigration , Ted Kennedy , Obama Administration , Disputations , Congress , Conservatives When the nations 300 or more Catholic bishops gather for each November for ...1 day ago -
World Lovefest for Obama not found in Philippines
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Obama is the 3rd term of Bush. Bayan and other cause-oriented groups are expected to launch protest rallies near the US embassy in Manila today. The groups were protesting the permanent and continuing presence of US troops in the Philippines under the Visiting Forces Agreement and the reported additional military ...1 day ago -
Obama shows proper way to kowtow
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but he didn’t apologize for Hiroshima yet! Then you have Cheney meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito. Watching the video is even worse. It is like the old time comedy movies where the person doesnt know when to stop bowing. Obama bowed to Emperor Akihito then bows his wife then bows a couple more times . tags ...2 days ago -
Global Warming News: Campaign I could get behind
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Contestants vying for the Miss Earth 2009 crown pose with placards and plants in their swimsuits in front of press photographers in Manila on November 4, 2009. 87 beauties championing green causes took part in the Miss Earth beauty pageant, with the aim to spread awareness on environmental issues. The winner will be ...2 days ago -
APEC leaders dilute carbon targets
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...2 days ago -
Keep This Phony ‘Senator’ Away From Our Children
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For days when you find The Globies just aren’t partisan enough, try enduring an issue of the Patriot-Ledger and its flunky sister papers scattered across various towns in the region. The Patriot-Ledger combines the establishment-backing elitism of the Boring Broadsheet with a dippy, no-questions-asked ...2 days ago -
Hasan Called Himself Soldier of Allah on Business Cards
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Does that make him a terrorist? Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan called himself a "soldier of Allah" on business cards found in his apartment after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in which he is accused of murdering 13 people. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, reportedly obtained the business cards over the Internet. In ...3 days ago -
Military religious diversity leads to non-uniform uniform
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Is political correctness destroying the military? The U.S. Army is making an exception to a decades-old rule and will allow a Sikh doctor to serve without removing his turban and cutting his hair. The New York-based Sikh Coalition says Capt. Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi is the first Sikh to be allowed to go on active duty ...3 days ago -
Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens
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Conservative Hoffman could be declared the official winner. Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for his campaign: He was down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night, and he had barely won his ...3 days ago -
Obamacare future: Fat pregnant women refused care in UK
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UK’s NHS has rationing. Obamacare will have rationing. Overweight mothers-to-be in a Somerset town are being sent to a hospital in Bristol to give birth because the local unit cannot cope with their size. Weston General Hospital has a low-risk, midwife-led birth centre and said it could only admit expectant ...3 days ago -
Ted Kennedy’s DC Residence Goes On The Market
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‘gone, but always remembered’ courtesy of ‘philliefan99′ Vikki Kennedy, Ted Kennedy’s widow, has put their 7-bedroom Kalorama house on the market according to the Washington Post . The property features 5 fireplaces, 7 bathrooms, a lap pool and in-home gym personally outfitted by Arnold ...3 days ago -
Obamas Asian adventure
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Who will he appease or kowtow to?. As Barack Obama, the US president, begins his first trip to Asia, he will be doing so at a time when American influence on the worlds most populous region is seen to be fading. "The age of America as the worlds superpower has come and will soon pass," says Li Chun Hwa, a Beijing ...4 days ago -
Obama stares down Patriot Act criticism….
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like from the Democrat Underground forums. The Obama administration is standing firm in its support of several George W. Bush-era Patriot Act powers in the face of sharp criticism from civil rights groups, liberal Democrats and a Dec. 31 deadline to extend key provisions of the bill. The Justice Department ...4 days ago -
Climate change scientist Ian Plimer argues CO2 is not causing global warming
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Weather comes in natural cycles. The next Ice Age is due. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanoes and is not responsible for climate change, a scientist has claimed Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist from Adelaide University, argues that a recent rise in temperature around the ...4 days ago -
Abortion on Demand—and I Mean Demand!
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In the race to replace Ted Kennedy (no one can replace him, of course, but anyone can improve on him), there is no depth to which the radically leftist candidates among the Democratic candidates will not sink, and sink happily, proudly, disgustingly.Just ask any fetus; he or she will tell you:A day after criticizing ...4 days ago -
Kelo revisited
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Like many others, I ranted and raved about the Supreme Courts judicial obscenity decision in Kelo vs. New London. It was an offense to the Constitution and everything for which it should stand. Well, the whole process has become, if possible, even more obscene. ...four years after that decision gave ...4 days ago -
Bad Luck Follows Crazy Uncle Joe
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Joe Bidens cars kill pedestrian: At first I thought Crazy Joe was in the car, and if so, that he must be channeling Ted Kennedy, as Ted must be getting bored being celibate and on the wagon. Then we hear that he wasnt in the car. May be he was sending out his security detail to pick up ...5 days ago -
Obama’s Justice Dept attempts to destroy privacy on Internet
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Even the loony left should object. In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the ...5 days ago
