News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is trying to invoke the passion of President John F. Kennedy for his Democratic National Convention speech, officials say.Obama supporter Theodore Sorensen, who worked on Kennedy's New Frontier convention acceptance speech in 1960, said Obama is taking a page from the late president by moving his DNC speech to an outdoor facility in Denver, USA Today said...
Dorf on Law (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
No, I don't have in mind the moving speech Senator Kennedy gave a few nights ago at the Democratic National Convention. I'm talking about the speech Kennedy gave over two decades ago, expressing his view that the Senate should reject President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. In my latest FindLaw column , I explain that, as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
BOSTON.- As citizens across the country prepare to elect the next President, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has unveiled The Making of a President, a special display of archival material and Museum objects from the Library's collection that explores those elements of John F. Kennedy's life that prepared him for a career in public service and motivated him
Biblical Christianity (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I heard that Senator Ted Kennedy had a brain tumor, which has since been revealed as malignant, I prayed for his conversion, and urged other Christians to do the same. I pray that God uses this to get Kennedy's attention, convict him of his sins against God, open his eyes to the truth, and lead him to repentant faith in Jesus Christ alone as Savior and Lord. So comes this headline:...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Is ABC’s love for the Kennedys so blind that they would overlook an unintentional allusion to Senator Ted Kennedy’s most notorious night? On a very soft interview with Senator Kennedy’s son, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, gushed over the senator’s speech reminding the audience that Patrick Kennedy heard someone label it a "Michael Phelps moment" referencing the Olympic...
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama , listen up! In this video from August 13, 1962, when the highest marginal individual income tax rate was 91% and the highest marginal corporate tax was 52%, President John F. Kennedy announced his plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board tax cuts for both individuals and corporations. Kennedy argued that both "logic and equity" demanded tax relief for Americans, and...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Few in the crowd of more than 200 knew much about Kennedy except that he had been shot to death at the site of the old Ambassador Hotel after winning California's Democratic presidential primary in 1968.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
So much for that Ted Kennedy love fest in Denver. CNN's "American Morning" today showcased former President Jimmy Carter who is still obviously bitter about the divided Democratic convention of 1980. Carter told anchor John Roberts that he is "probably the world's foremost expert on split parties" after that experience. The former president then told the other side of the Massachusetts senator...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech is widely regarded as having reassured voters who were wary because he was a young Catholic and hardly a legislative lion in the Senate.
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
AP - Los Angeles officials have broken ground on a new pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago. Read the full story
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles officials have broken ground on a new pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago....
Random Culture (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
I always like to keep up with what agencies are doing with their websites. The Tokyo office of Wieden + Kennedy has launched a new site. It includes some interesting extras, like a blog, as well as custom Google Maps...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech is widely regarded as having reassured voters who were wary because he was a young Catholic and hardly a legislative lion in the Senate.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
In a sub-section of your report on a plot to assassinate Barack Obama, the US presidential candidate (27 August), you say that the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin who shot President John F Kennedy has "hardened over the years into certainty". This is far from the case, although, with the passage of time, the true facts will probably never be known....
Scalpel or Sword? (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Senator Edward M. Kennedy had just left a hospital bed here when he delivered his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, after suffering a debilitating bout of kidney stones Sunday upon arriving in town, aides said. His aides said that after Mr. Kennedy finally decided he was well enough to come to Denver over the weekend, they became alarmed when he arrived on...
