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NEW YORK — Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide and alter ego to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a tragically brief administration, died Sunday.

In his most recent interview with an Al Qaeda media outlet terrorist “Anwar Al Awlaki” the US born Al Qaeda terrorist said that he stopped his communications when he read in the Washington Post that he is being tracked by US intelligence. He said that once he stopped his communications he left the area in Yemen where he was hiding and then this area was bombed by US airstrikes. He also said that both terrorists “Nidal Hassan” who killed 13 of our troops at Fort Hood and “Omar Farouk Abd Al Moutaleb” who had the failed terrorist attack on the...

A Ketchikan jury correctly convicted a Greenpeace ship's captain of criminal negligence for sailing in Alaska waters without the proper oil spill response plan, the state appeals court ruled Thursday. The opinion partly cancels a 2005 decision by a Ketchikan judge to overturn guilty verdicts against Greenpeace Inc. and Arctic Sunrise Capt. Arne Sorensen of misdemeanor charges. At the time of its anti-logging campaign, the ship was carrying more than 70,000 gallons of "petroleum products," according to district court documents. In Alaska, non-tank vessels larger than 400 gross tons must file an oil spill response plan application five days before...

Former JFK Speechwriter Joins Obama Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:09 AM JFK called Ted Sorensen his "intellectual blood-bank." No presidential speechwriter has ever earned such a tribute. Now the 80-year-old Sorensen has jumped aboard the Obama campaign as an enthusiastic adviser. "Senator Obama is the one candidate who can restore America's moral authority and regain the respect essential to our security," he recently declared. "Both JFK and Obama were cerebral rather than emotional speakers, relying on the communication of values and hope rather than cheap applause lines." "The Republicans have allowed a communist dictatorship to flourish eight jet minutes from...

This was a big race, folks. Sali defeated pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, tax-hiking RINO Sheila Sorensen. This was a huge victory for the Club for Growth. The five conservatives in the race did not split the vote enough for the RINO to win.

...Few inaugural addresses are as well remembered as John F. Kennedy's. The nearest modern competitor, Franklin Roosevelt's first, produced "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" and "good neighbor" (for FDR's foreign policy). JFK's produced: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"; "if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"; "the trumpet summons us again...to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle." Nearly every paragraph includes a phrase that remains familiar.... It is natural that there has...

Who is Air America? Part III and where are they?Part I, Part II [gpapa's comments in brackets] From UrbanRadioLive.com UrbanTalk Atlanta Radio Venture to Back Liberal Hosts By Atlanta Journal and Constitution Feb 21, 2003, 06:00 An Atlantan has been hired to create liberal talk radio programs for syndication, but analysts and others see a challenge in attempting to rival a conservative radio icon such as Rush Limbaugh. Jon Sinton, a 48-year-old former radio consultant from Cobb County, is chief executive officer of a venture called AnShell Media, a $10 million start-up funded by investors led by Chicago venture...

Who is Air America? Part II And where are they? See Who is Air America? Part I here [gpapa's comments in brackets] Nobody was duped: Sorensen denies allegations surrounding Air America by Ken Wetmore, KUAM News, Thursday, June 24, 2004 [The Guam Connection]Heading the project [Air America] were two men with strong ties to Guam. Rex Sorensen owns Sorensen Pacific Broadcasting, which operates five radio stations on Guam and Saipan (Sorensen says his Guam broadcasting company is in no way connected to Air America). The other man is Evan Cohen who was born on Guam and operated several businesses on...

Give credit where credit is due. President George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives did exactly what they were intended to do on Election Day. By giving, or promising to give, taxpayer money to churches, Bush was able to win the support of kinky clergymen everywhere. His handout to religious groups was so successful that even the Roman Catholic bishops rooted for him. They spent the campaign badmouthing one of their own, John F. Kerry, who never knew what hit him. The election campaign of 2004 turned out to be exactly as advertised, full of twists and turns, shocks and surprises, and...

<p>On March 30, the night before Air America went on the air, the liberal radio network threw itself a $70,000 party at Manhattan's hip Maritime Hotel. More than 1,000 guests, including Yoko Ono and Tim Robbins, drank red, white and blue vodka cocktails as they toasted the network's bid to challenge the dominance of conservative talk radio.</p>

When former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan talked about America's "loss of credibility" this month at Pennsylvania State University, he was booed vigorously. SUNY Oswego's president sent a letter of apology to its commencement speaker, Theodore C. Sorensen - a former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - after his criticism of President George W. Bush's handling of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 was jeered. And a week ago at Hofstra University, novelist E.L. Doctorow criticized Bush for misleading the country to justify war with Iraq, and couldn't get through his remarks when the catcalls became too loud. The war in...

A keynote speaker at State University College at Oswego's graduation ceremony Saturday was drowned out by booing, hissing and foot-stomping after he criticized President Bush. Theodore C. Sorensen, a lawyer and author who served as special counsel to President Kennedy, never said Bush's name. But he took the president to task for going on vacation after warnings of terrorist attacks surfaced, declaring war without allied support and gloating about a victory. Sorensen compared the ways Kennedy handled the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 to the methods Bush used to handle the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "President Kennedy...

<p>The Great Divider was at it again last week, rallying his religious fundamentalist troops in their never-ending war against the principles of freedom.</p> <p>George W. Bush is a man who wears his religion on his sleeve. "Look at me," his actions seem to say. "Look at what a good boy I am. I love God, I truly do, I love the flag, I love apple pie, and, lately, I've noticed I love marriage."</p>

<p>Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies ended a shootout with a barricaded murder suspect by tossing burning road flares into his desert hide-out, sparking a blaze last year that contributed to his death.</p> <p>Sheriff Lee Baca said the tactic of setting fire to a shed to drive the suspect out was "unorthodox." But the action was justified, Baca said, because the man was "using deadly assault weapons against us."</p>

<p>The Political Party that Stands for Nothing came close to being embarrassed last week when it needed help from San Francisco Republicans to win a run-off election for mayor.</p> <p>As it turned out, the Democrats didn't act embarrassed. They should have -- and would have, if they had any principles -- but modern Democrats stand for only one thing: winning.</p>

<p>Every time I limp through airport security these days, which isn't often, I think of my late departed friend, Perry.</p> <p>Perry was a junkie. He preferred heroin, but he'd swallow or smoke just about anything he could get his hands on: cocaine, crack, booze, grass, hash, ecstasy, angel dust. You name it, Perry had tried it and would cheerfully try it again.</p>

<p>Quiz time. Who is the luckiest man in the world?</p> <p>No, not the guy who won the Power Ball drawing, and certainly not Ben Affleck (unless the postponement becomes a cancellation). But the answer is easy. The luckiest man in the world is Osama bin Laden.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES — The high-desert house where a man suspected of killing a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was holed up erupted in flames Friday night after authorities attempted to flush him out with tear gas and a battering ram.</p>

KCAL was reporting the entire complex that Donald Keuck was hiding out on was completly on fire. Looks like LE went to take him out. My brother who watched the thing said that Keuck (who is alleged to have killed la county deputy sorensen) was given shelter at a friends house who called the cops. Sounds like the friend tried to defuse the situation by taking him in and calling the cops to take him into costody. Nice... kcal reporter said that the suspect undoubtably wanted to go out "in a blaze of glory".

Authorities surrounded a desert residence today where a 52-year-old man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy last Saturday is holed up with high-powered weapons according to ABC7 broadcast reports. Sheriff's Deputy Johnnie Jones told ABC7 that Donald Charles Kueck, the suspect in the shooting death of resident Deputy Stephen Sorensen, is believed to be pinned down. "We're pretty sure," Jones said. "We're pretty positive that our guy's here. And we've got him surrounded, and, hopefully, we're going to catch him." He told ABC7 that "we got some information from some sources that's led us out here. A few things have...