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RFK's Accidental Party-Crasher

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Kennedy Plane, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lake PLacid, Rfk, The Caroline, Jackie Kennedy, Blanche Griswold, New York, Robert F. Kennedy, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, New York News

On Feb. 22, 1965, Blanche Griswold rushed across the tarmac at the Saranac Lake airport. It struck her as odd how small the plane was. That's when she saw Robert Kennedy, the state's new senator.

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Why Can't We Just Say "Obama, We're Proud of You?"

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rabin, Lincoln, Nobel, Joe the Nerd, Gop, Gandhi, Congress, Benigno Aquino, Mlk, Palme, Bhutto, Rfk, Obama, Jfk, Sweden, Politics News

The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.

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Clinton's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Revisited

Adam Neiman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Roger Ailes Fox News, Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Paranoia, Rfk, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Glenn Beck, Jfk, Barack Obama, Politics News

What we lack and urgently need, since two political assassinations in 1968 defined modern American politics, is a frank and sane way to discuss political conspiracy.

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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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Jackie Kennedy Note Stolen, FBI Investigating: Report

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethel Kennedy, Rfk, Stolen Note, Jfk, Jackie Kennedy, Kennedy Note, Assassination, Politics News

DALLAS — The FBI is investigating a "stolen" handwritten condolence note by Jacqueline Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy that was penned shortly after Ro...

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What About Joan Kennedy: Doesn't She Deserve an Honorable Mention Too?

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Boston, Joan Bennett Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Vicky Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Jackie Onassis, Jfk, Rfk, Home News

As I sat and watched the media coverage of the life of Senator Edward Kennedy, something struck me as unfair: What about the former Mrs. Kennedy -- Joan Bennett Kennedy?

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Ted Kennedy's Life is a Parable

Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rfk, Edward Kennedy, Jfk, Ronald Reagan, David Mixner, Ted Kennedy, Lgbt, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Politics News

The real colorful dream of this country is not about a mythical Camelot but a real land of second-chances, a land of reinvention and fresh opportunity.

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A Former Counsel to Kennedy, on Kennedy

Roger Wolfson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Senate, Jfk, Rfk, Death, Kennedy, Politics News

When I left Kennedy's service, I had a theory of why he kept those photographs of his family so prominently displayed in his office. So many people came and went in his life, and Ted was the constant.

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How We Can Pay Teddy Back

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Carter, Teddy Kennedy, Joe the Nerd, Healthacare, Jfk, Rfk, Politics News

True health care would be the lasting and greatest legacy for all. A final gift from a generation of Kennedys that gave us the moon and so much more.

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Did Rupert Bed Jackie?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Affairs, Jackie Kennedy, Jfk, New York Post, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Rfk, Jackie O, Media News

Is it really possible to have had as much sex as the Kennedys had? Well, anyway, thank God for it. The Kennedy sex saga is really the story that keep...

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Iran: "The Whole World is Watching"

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: 60s, Iran, Gay Rights, Mlk, Womens' Rightts, Rfk, Obama, Neda, Jfk, Kent State, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, Stonewall, World News

Seeing all the blogs on the Huffington Post made me realize that Americans of all political persuasions care deeply about this issue of oppression in Iran.

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Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall; D-Day to Cairo University - the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Rick Allen | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Rfk, Cairo, Barack Obama, Tiananmen Square, Freedom, Robert Kennedy, World News

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and the crushing of the public manifestations of the pro-democracy movement.

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Caroline Kennedy Would Be an Outstanding Senator for New York

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Senate Races, Upstate New York, Rfk, New York Senate Seat, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

I've recently heard a lot of punditry questioning Caroline Kennedy's qualifications to fill Hillary Clinton's now empty seat in the United States Sena...

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Caroline's Consummate Qualifications

Michael Carmichael | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Jfk, Caroline, David Paterson, Rfk, Politics News

Over the past year, Kennedy has raised her public profile in parallel with news of her uncle's illness and uncertainties about his capacity to serve as the Senate ranking New Frontiersman.

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I was Thinking...

Sam Greenfield | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, What If, Obama Racism, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Rfk, Politics News

1) If you are asking for a loan, don't fly in by private jet to firm things up.

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Vote for Him -- Because He's Black

Greg Palast | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Greg Palast, John McCain, The Nation, Obama, 2008 Election, Journalism, Barack Obama, Rfk, Politics News

I'm going to say something that I know the Obama campaign will just hate; but that many others are feeling but won't say out loud. We must vote for Barack Obama because he's Black.

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News: Anarchist to Vote!

Dale Pendell | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hope, Richard Nixon, Anarchist, 1968 Election, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Rfk, Hubert Humphrey, Politics News

I had been dreaming politics -- action committees, meetings, proposals. I too have succumbed to the Great Hope.

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Out on the Campaign Trail with the McMuppets

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Harry Reid, Rfk, Joe Biden, Jfk, Richared Nixon, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Fdr, Politics News

These days, its hard to tell the difference between Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and Sesame Street. The award winning children's educatio...

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BBC report: will the GOP steal another election?

Greg Palast | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Vote Theft, Steal Back Your Vote, Vote Fraud, Mccain, Palast, Acorn, Greg Palast, Obama, Michigan, Rove, Rfk, Karl Rove, Politics News

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I have been following the Rove-arian tactics of vote theft for years, frankly we're tired of covering it after the election. This year we're telling you how they're doing it beforehand.

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RFK Jr.: Palin Infatuated With Big Oil

Los Angeles Times | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palin, Rfk, Green, Sarah Palin, Climate Change, Oil, Politics News

In Virginia, the weather has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might fin...

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"You Can't Always Get What You Want"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Move on.Org, George W. Bush, Rfk, Jfk, Che Guevara, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Fdr, Politics News

After he's elected we will hold Obama's feet to the fire. There will be disappointments -- but what's new about that? The Left is always disappointed.

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Barack and Bobby: Compare and Contrast; and, Obama-Clinton as Lennon-McCartney circa 1970

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Marshall McLuhan, Rfk, Hillary Clinton, Tom Hayden, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

Bobby Kennedy was the ultimate insider, the product of wealth and power. Obama's is doing the opposite: He's climbing up the mountain. Where RFK was the ultimate insider, he's the ultimate outsider.

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Is Clinton's 2012 Campaign Under Way?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton, 2012 Election, Hillary, Barack, 2008 Presidential Race, Superdelegates, Rfk, Obama, Frances Moore Lappe, Mccain, Democratic Party, Politics News

But now that it's clear to virtually everyone that -- barring some catastrophic event -- Clinton will not be the nominee in 2008, her actions seem to make sense only as a 2012 strategy.

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Hillary's Bone-headed Argument

Dee Dee Myers | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary RFK, Rfk, Politics News

Apart from the furor the RFK comment provoked, Clinton's argument is wrong, historically and politically. Democratic presidential primaries never really last this long. This race is unprecedented.

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Hillary, O.J. and R.F.K.

Keli Goff | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Race in Politics, Al Sharpton, Obama Security Concerns, Hillary RFK, Obama, Obama Security, Hillary Gaffe, Vernon Jordan, Rfk Assassination, OJ Simpson, Barack Obama, Rfk, Politics News