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Halftime At The Healthcare Reform Superbowl

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.

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Friday Talking Points [93] -- Lies, Lies And Propaganda

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Political discussions in America are fast becoming solely theological in nature.. Each side has their beliefs. Each has their tenets which they fervently defend. Much of this is done on faith.

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Are You Perfect?

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

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Dr. Susan Corso

I no longer expect myself to be perfect. Instead, I borrow the verb form of that word. I definitely expect myself to be perfecting at all times.

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Weeping for the Kennedys

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Reese Schonfeld

The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.

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Memo to Sarah Palin: Four Reasons Why You Will Never be in Teddy's League

Jacqueline Caster | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Jacqueline Caster

While Senator Kennedy was a man who may have been less than perfect, he never blamed others for his flaws and errors in judgment.

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Operation BabyLift: Ted Kennedy and the Orphans of Vietnam

Dana Sachs | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Dana Sachs

Many people have recollected their interactions with Sen. Kennedy. I also met him -- in the pages of a 34-year-old transcript I discovered, researching a book about the Vietnam War.

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"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Norm Stamper

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 3: St. Matthew is on our side.

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.

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Ted Kennedy: Master Sailor and Senator

Terry Gardner | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Terry Gardner

There may not be any single senator ready to take up Ted Kennedy's mantle. So why not pick it up together as a legislative body?

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Up To 1,000 Rally In NYC For Health Care Bill

AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — About a thousand people rallied in Manhattan on Saturday in support of federal health care reform legislation. The event near Times ...

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Epitaphs for the Miscreants

Sam Greenfield | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Sam Greenfield

I wonder what the scribes will write about those who have attacked Kennedy and/.or his programs as his family and most of the nation mourned.

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The Moral Imperative: Health Care as an American Right

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Miles J. Zaremski

However we look at health care, one thing is certain: health care is universal to each and every human being in this country, regardless of power, position, gender, race or ethnicity.

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Friday Talking Points [91] -- Win One For Teddy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.

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The Death of a Friend

Gerald McEntee | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Gerald McEntee

Known as the "Lion of the Senate," we counted on Ted to fight for fairness in the workplace and serve as a voice for those whose labor makes this country great.

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Whither Now Health Care Reform?

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Philip Lee Miller

This debate is not about health care, is about the economics of a system that is failing us all -- physicians, patients -- everyone.

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Ted Kennedy: Remembrances from an 'Old Hand'

Jeff Blattner | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Blattner

Strange as it seems, the best description of Senator Kennedy may have been offered by another Teddy -- Roosevelt -- more than two decades before Kennedy's birth.

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To Live Like Teddy

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Brett Ashley McKenzie

The day I met Teddy, I will never forget. The 2004 campaign pitted Kennedy's fellow Massachusetts senator John Kerry against an incumbent George Bush, and the battle had gotten bloody.

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Ted Kennedy -- "Greatest Senator of our Time"

Mike Smith | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Mike Smith

I arranged for Placido Domingo, the great tenor, to sing to Ted Kennedy on his 72nd B-day. Of course, Teddy loved to sing and joined in two-part harmony. He had a great baritone.

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Requiem

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The following is the transcript of Senator Edward Kennedy's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

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Ted Kennedy: The Last Progressive

Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

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Dennis Perrin

Kennedy was as much of a progressive force as this rotten system allows. With his wealth, he could've easily been a Republican and pushed for perks for the rich. Instead, he championed the powerless.

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The Day Teddy Kennedy Held the Elevator for Me

Erin Green | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Erin Green

Typically, you could tell that Kennedy was coming down the hall because he was grumbling at someone or talking to his large dog, a Portuguese Water Dog named Splash.

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Teddy Kennedy, We Hardly Knew Ye

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Michael Wolff

Few living people have been as famous for as long as Teddy Kennedy. Still, after so long, I can't say I have much of a clear sense of the man.

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How We Can Pay Teddy Back

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

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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Our Lost Patriarch

Sen. Harry Reid | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Harry Reid

It was the thrill of my lifetime to work with Ted Kennedy. He was a friend, the model of public service and an American icon.

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Ted Kennedy, My Friend and Colleague

Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Robert Byrd

As a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name-calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.

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