Greetings from Hyannis Port. Here’s a story on the scene here. And, belatedly, as I was on vacation last week, here’s my story on John Kerry in this week’s dead tree edition that I think pretty well illustrates how Senator Kennedy spent much of the last year (thanks for the shout out, Joe).
While most people have been wide eyed or …
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Here’s my story for TIME.com on the woman whom Ted Kennedy called “the love of my life.” In many ways, Vicki Reggie Kennedy also saved his life, and brought a fullness and happiness to it that Ted Kennedy had never known before.
The Boston Globe is reporting that arrangements for Senator Kennedy’s funeral mass and burial have been made. Before the funeral, Senator Kennedy’s body will lie at the JFK Library and Museum in Boston, where members of the public can pay their respects. And a funeral mass is being planned for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in …
In other news…South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer is calling for Mark Sanford’s resignation right now at a press conference in Columbia. If you’ll remember, Sanford’s tearful, rambling confession of infidelity in June dominated the news for less than 24 hours before Michael Jackson died and dominated every airwave and headline. The …
On September 29, I will have been a journalist for 40 years. Ted Kennedy was the first major league politician I met, way back when–and here is a personal remembrance. As I say in the piece, there will be others who will assess and pay tribute, in appropriate detail, to his gargantuan legislative achievements and his political courage. …
Rarely has a politician, or a political dynasty, been so identified with a single passage from a single poem. At the 1980 Democratic convention, in perhaps his most remembered public address, Edward Moore Kennedy quoted from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Ulysses, and then added some words of his …
Ted Kennedy fought longer than the doctors had expected he could, and yet, died before he could see the outcome of the battle that he had often described as the greatest cause of his life. “This whole issue in terms of universal and comprehensive care has always burned in my soul,” he said in a fiery speech on the floor of the …
I was on the phone earlier this evening with a friend in Kabul who analyzed the early returns in the Afghan elections, which show President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah running neck and neck. The results–10% of the vote is in–are mostly from more urban areas like Kabul and Herat. None of them are from the …
The New York Times ran a front-page story today about a quiet man who drove a long distance with his wife to attend a town meeting in Georgia hosted by his Congressman Sanford Bishop. The guy was there because his wife has breast cancer and he’s worried that the Obama health care plan will force rationing, which will decrease her chance …
As Michael Scherer notes below, Dick Cheney has now accused the Obama Administration of politicizing the Justice Department…after his Administration criminalized the Justice Department. But then, we’ve come to expect goofball stuff from the former veep who served, in effect, as President of Foreign Policy in GW Bush’s first term.
Former vice president Dick Cheney has responded to the Monday release of new CIA documents, showing abuse, mismanagement and potential criminal violations in the harsh interrogation program that he approved. He offers a striking statement for three reasons.
But first a look at what Cheney says:
From the Swampland London bureau, Glen Levy reports that conservative pols are looking to “The Wire” (which has been off the air on this side of the pond for more than a year) for inspiration:
A never-ending battle between the police and gangs? Law and order simply impossible to maintain? And the green fields of Britain being replaced …