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A light tax burden and contempt for the institution of motherhood? Just another day in the life of the potential first lady. Between fits of demeaning motherhood and revealing the miniscule tax burden she pays on her enormous income, it has been a deservedly terrible week for potential first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry. Tax Troubles Mrs. Kerry released two pages of her 2003 individual income tax form, which expose how she used tax shelters to avoid paying her “fair share” of income taxes. In fact, she contributed a smaller percentage of her income in taxes than most middle class taxpayers. She...

Fort Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Teresa Heinz Kerry offered American Indians meeting in south Florida a list of promises she said her husband will fulfill if he is elected president. She said her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would defend tribal sovereignty and the doors of the White House would be reopened, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. She also said money would be allocated for healthcare, tribes would be helped to develop alternative forms of election and that reading skills among Indian children would be addressed. Kerry said steps to help Native Americans would begin within the...

In appearances here and before a crowd of 1,700 in Fort Collins, Heinz Kerry echoed her husband's views about terrorism, national security, crime, health care and education. She said the United States needs a different approach in the world. "The way we live in peace in a family, in a marriage, in the world, is not by threatening people, is not by showing off your muscles. It's by listening, by giving a hand sometimes, by being intelligent, by being open and by setting high standards," she said at the CSU rally. In Pueblo, Heinz Kerry sounded a similar theme, criticizing...

'I wouldn't be surprised if he appeared in the next month'...

Well, that takes care of that swing state.

NEW YORK (AP) - They say that opposites attract, and in the case of Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, that may be true - at least in their public personas. While the Democratic presidential nominee has a reputation for being aloof and serious, his wife is perceived as the exact opposite. She can be downright playful in public - dancing or laughing or poking fun at her husband as if he's her straight man. Such as last weekend, when her husband told reporters he was going to spend a Sunday at home working. Heinz Kerry quipped that he...

Teresa Heinz grew up the daughter of a rich dentist in the slave-holding Portuguese territory of Mozambique. Slavery was universally practiced in Mozambique until 1970. I spent some time there in Lorenzo Marques and Beira back in the 60s and have a pretty good idea of the life of the colonial Portuguese and their viciously exploited slaves. Furthermore, the Portuguese Mozambicans “leased out” their black slaves to neighboring countries for large projects. The blacks there were considered Kaffirs which meant not quite human to them. I'll never forget viewing several hundred blacks shoveling urea from the deck of my ship...

NEW YORK -- They say that opposites attract, and in the case of Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, that may be true -- at least in their public personas. While the Democratic presidential nominee has a reputation for being aloof and serious, his wife is perceived as the exact opposite. She can be downright playful in public -- dancing or laughing or poking fun at her husband as if he's her straight man. Such as this weekend, when her husband told reporters he was going to spend a Sunday at home working. Heinz Kerry quipped that he has...