Blog Entries by Andrew Cohen

My One and Only Kennedy Funeral

Posted September 1, 2009 | 07:37 PM (EST)


I was not born or raised during Camelot. I wasn't but a twinkle in my father's eye in November 1963. And I was not yet two years old when John F. Kennedy's younger brother, Robert, the torch bearer, was murdered in Los Angeles. So, like tens of millions of other...

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Recount Brings Back Bad Memories -- and Highlights New Problems

Posted June 3, 2008 | 04:52 PM (EST)


The only thing wrong with The Recount, HBO's powerful docu-drama about the Florida election fiasco of 2000, is that it is premiering to ballyhoo six months too early. The story of the ugly fight over Palm Beach County's disastrous "butterfly ballot" and the Sunshine State's "hanging chads" ought to be...

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A Tale of Christmas Law

Posted December 24, 2007 | 04:44 PM (EST)


On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
A monitoring bracelet for skinny Lindsay.

On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
Two attorneys general
And a monitoring bracelet for skinny Lindsay

On the third day...

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This Land is Your Land

Posted December 29, 2006 | 11:18 AM (EST)


This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island


In California this year, a federal trial judge halted all executions in the state after a lengthy hearing during which one prison official, explaining a botched lethal injection a...

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