WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Republican state Treasurer John Kennedy and Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu tangle over hot-button issues facing Louisiana.
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | yesterday
" ... [A]s a surgical resident he saw four gunshot wounds in the fallen president. ... Crenshaw's book claimed that Kennedy had four wounds. The fatal shot, he insisted, was fired from the front and could have come from a second gunman. ... " Published Thursday, November 22, 2001 JFK gunmen theorist, 68 Los Angeles Times Service Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw, who became a favorite of conspiracy buffs...
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
The Democrat Party has long practiced voter fraud. As long ago as 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy won a close race against Richard Nixon, with the help of voter fraud in Texas and Illinois. In Chicago the dead have long been active in voter registration and ballot casting. Democrats have long resisted the requirement of a photo identification card for voters because they are the primary beneficiaries...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A yacht once used by the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy is up for sale at a maritime show in Annapolis, Md., the father of the boat's owner says. Bill Kilbourne, whose daughter Laurie owns the Manitou, said the 62-foot vessel once carried Kennedy and members of his famed family and may have once been visited by late Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe, The Boston...
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
McCain-Palin have been rather busy this week endorsing the view of some of their psychotic supporters who chanted "Obama is a traitor," among the other hate-filled rants. Well, DU blogger Heather located this document - a political ad that ran in Dallas the day before John F. Kennedy was assassinated - from the national archives:
Political Cortex (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The close and exciting 1960 presidential race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon launched the...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The sailboat John F. Kennedy called his "floating White House" is for sale this weekend at the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis.
Voices of New Orleans (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Omnivoracious blog over at amazon has been writing about significant books from every state for the last couple of weeks (an exhausting undertaking it seems to me!). They just hit Louisiana and along with a nice write-up for John Kennedy O'Toole also included: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury: "Thank God for Herbert Asbury, the unapologetic...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The creepy gay kid appeared on Opie and Anthony and sang happy birthday to Bob Kelly. Staff member Sam Roberts plays the character who is not only gay, but very creepy as well. The creepy gay kid basically does an imitation of Marilyn Monroe's famous "Happy Birthday" song to John F. Kennedy . Only, frankly, the creepy kid lacks any real sense of style and he's just not that sexy. At least to me. Here's...
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
UFC: Ultimate Flagellating Championship , by Pat Darnell T he first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS' WBBM-TV. See the picture in MooPig Header this week. That debate is well documented everywhere. Had there been...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
They are unpredictable and often unfair. But there is no better test of a candidate AT FIRST, Richard Nixon vowed he would not debate John Kennedy. He had little to gain from such an encounter, and much to lose. As vice-president, he was better known than the young senator and universally considered a heavyweight. But in the end his fear of appearing fearful overcame his caution. It was a mistake....
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The contest is based on the old joke line “What do you get if you cross X with Y'” Here’s my stab at it. Q: What do you get when you cross Martin Luther King with John Fitzgerald Kennedy? A: The person Barack Obama pretends to be. Q:What do you get when you cross Jeremiah Wright with Bill Ayers? A: [...]
Right Truth (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
I couldn't help but notice in last night's presidential debate and in Barack Obama's campaign speech today, how he continues to invoke John F. Kennedy. I get the idea Obama would like for voters to see him as another JFK,...
The Tin Man (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Only three U.S. presidents so far have had names ending in vowel sounds: James Monroe, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. (Most popular final letter: N. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Harrison, Wilson, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton.)
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Long before George. W cleared brush in Crawford, TX and George H. stole away to Kennebunkport, MN, John F. Kennedy made Hyannis Port, MA the site of his summer White House.
