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FBI Files Show Bureau’s Interest in Ted Kennedy’s Pre-Senate Politics

By | 06.14.10 | 2:27 pm

FBI documents released today reveal the bureau had been gathering background information on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) pre-Senate dealings with people on the left and the right as early as 1954.

Among the 2,352 pages the FBI released today, which mainly concentrate on death threats made More…

It’s Not the Kennedy Seat, Except When It Is

By | 01.12.10 | 12:17 pm

The big, Drudge-approved video from last night’s Massachusetts Senate debate is this one, in which GOP candidate Scott Brown says the seat he’s running for is “not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrat’s seat — it’s the people’s seat.” I’ve been following the race for a while More…

Lloyd Bentsen Could Not Be Reached for Comment

By | 12.30.09 | 11:51 am

Since the Democrats’ 1988 vice presidential nominee destroyed Dan Quayle for comparing himself to John F. Kennedy, most Republicans have stayed well away from that sand trap. Scott Brown, the GOP’s longshot candidate in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat once held by both Ted and John More…

The President-elect and The Chairman

By | 11.06.08 | 12:45 pm

He burst into public attention as Abraham Lincoln did, with a speech. When he next commanded the nation’s attention, last winter in Iowa and New Hampshire, what was remarkable was not only the power of his speaking but the intensity of his audience’s response — and his young audience most More…