Free Republic

We received this in our e-mail pile without any indication of who wrote it. It was so good, we decided to post it anyway. To Michael Moore: Sit down and shut up. Your fifteen minutes are up. And do something about your hair. Looks can be deceiving, but not in your case... To Jimmy Carter: Big mistake to sit down next to Michael Moore at the convention. Spend more time with drywall and the glue gun. Or start lusting in your heart again. To Tom Daschle: If you lean too far to the left, voters will tend to lean right...

Super-compassionate liberal Senator Ted Kennedy is one of the richest politicians in America, but he's quietly giving back -- by teaching poor inner-city teens to drive, free of charge! That's the surprising revelation of a clergyman who coordinates the program, based in a community center in Washington, D.C. "Teddy doesn't charge these kids a dime and doesn't take any credit," reveals Father Bryan MacKelly. "He volunteers his time on the down-low -- he doesn't really want the media to make a big deal about his personal generosity. "He told me, 'Safe driving is a skill every young American deserves to...

(11/30/04 - REGINA, Saskatchewan) — A real cowboy is never caught without his boots, but his pants are another matter. Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, found a bare-butted cowboy hanging from a fence. It seems the Canadian cowpoke had a little too much to drink at an agriculture festival Saturday night. He tried climbing an eight-foot-tall fence but snagged a pant leg, leaving him dangling upside down. He dropped his cell phone, too. Police say he unzipped his pants to get free, but discovered he couldn't get them off. He eventually reached the phone's keypad and dialed 911. Officers found the...

There were a lot of things John Kerry could have done with his concession speech and didn’t – like pulling an Al Gore, trying to set the table for 2008 or just being Kerryesque. But of all the things he didn’t do but should have, Numero Uno is already coming back to bite him very quickly. That would be forgetting, inexplicably, to thank Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Kerry had kind words for tons of folks, everybody from his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and daughters to running mate John Edwards, his wife, Elizabeth, and their kids. Not surprising that. But then...

  Revisiting Chappaquiddick After 35 Years Posted Jul 19, 2004Thirty-five years after the night of July 18, 1969, when Ted Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile sedan off the side of a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., and left for dead Mary Jo Kopechne, the 28-year-old former secretary of his brother Robert F. Kennedy, in his submerged car, unanswered questions linger over the events of that fatal evening. Kennedy escaped the wreckage with a concussion and waited nine hours before reporting the incident to the police shortly after a young boy noticed the sunken car. Kennedy pleaded guilty to...

Most of us old enough to have been reading newspapers and watching television in the mid-1980s remember when the Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta “Sandinistas” were battling the anti-communist guerrilla army of “Contras” in Nicaragua. And who could forget the overblown Iran-Contra affair, the attempt to arm the Contras through a deal to swap arms for hostages with the mullahs in Iran. What might be hazy in the memory after 20 years, however, is the Keystone Kops, I-want-to-play-president role of the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry. Still humming his “Give peace a chance” mantra from Vietnam days, Kerry jumped into...

<p>The Bush administration is controlled by a "right-wing conspiracy," and the prospect of President Bush's re-election is "almost too dire to bear," NAACP Chairman Julian Bond told a gathering of liberal activists yesterday.</p> <p>Mr. Bond's remarks came in his opening address to the three-day "Take Back America" conference at Washington's Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, which will also feature presentations by billionaire left-wing financier George Soros, failed Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.</p>

Newark Archbishop John Myers ruffled feathers recently when he said Catholic politicians who support abortion should not take Communion, a move that was seen as an attack on (New Jersey) Gov. James E. McGreevey . Democrats saw a partisan edge, given that the same weight was not placed on capital punishment, the Iraq war or other church positions that might work against Republicans. So there has been much buzz lately at word that Myers attended a St. Patrick's Day lunch in Washington as the guest of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, with President George W. Bush in attendance. "He can have...

"Illegal immigration is out of control." That phrase was uttered by Leonard Chapman, commissioner of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS], at a time when apprehension of illegal aliens by the U.S. Border Patrol more than doubled to 766,000 arrests. The year was 1975 -- a decade after Congress eliminated the "national origins" quota system with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act [INA], and a decade after the measure's chief Senate sponsor, Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said, "Our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually; under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains...

(CNSNews.com) - The campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is being linked to the Senate Judiciary Committee's "Memogate" controversy, which involves alleged Democratic efforts to delay the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees. Mary Beth Cahill, a former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), left her Senate job last November to become Kerry's campaign manager. But in April 2002 when Cahill worked for Kennedy, her name was attached to a controversial memo spelling out a plan to delay the confirmation of Julia Smith Gibbons to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington Times reported...

A Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer urged Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to use the judicial-confirmation process to affect an affirmative-action case to which she once had been a party. (snip) The leaders of several conservative judiciary groups noted that they specifically have asked Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, to investigate the matter, especially because the 6th Circuit covers his home state. Frist spokeswoman Amy Call was not familiar with the matter and did not return a phone call seeking comment.

<p>April 6, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Kennedy yesterday charged that President Bush's credibility was no better than Richard Nixon's - drawing an immediate rebuke from Republicans. A Kennedy spokesman said Sen. John Kerry's campaign was given advance warning of the scathing speech from one of its top supporters, but denied that Kerry consulted with Kennedy on it. In his remarks to the Brookings Institution, a think tank in D.C., Kennedy also said, "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam."</p>

Democrats and Foreign Leaders Is Kerry pulling a Carter? From Peter Schweizer's great book Reagan's War: In September 1976, Carter sent a secret emissary to Moscow. Averell Harriman was one of the grand old wise men of American Cold War policy. He had been secretary of defense and ambassador to the Soviet Union. What he said, particularly in private, was weighed heavily by Soviet leaders. According to Georgii Kornieko, first deputy foreign minister at the time, Harriman, "gave assurances that if elected president he [Carter] would take steps toward the rapid conclusion and signing of the SALT II Treaty, and...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered a point-by-point comparison yesterday of White House statements before the war in Iraq and the available intelligence, accusing President Bush of "manipulation and distortion" to build the case for an invasion.</p> <p>Kennedy used almost all of a major address to the Council on Foreign Relations to make a detailed case that Bush misled the country, a move interpreted as signaling the Democrats' increasing willingness to take on the president for allegedly misrepresenting facts about Iraq's weapons and terrorist links.</p>

Rumsfeld’s a Hero Thanks to Glenn Reynolds’ invaluable blog InstaPundit, I linked to a pretty fun bit at scrappleface.com, a website whose motto reads "News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher." Dated Feb. 5, an item (which ought to make The Onion blush at its irrelevance) took out Teddy Kennedy, who’s currently bellowing at union halls for John Kerry, a man he once considered an ill-suited inheritor of his family’s (mixed) legacy. The piece read, in part: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday that he was ‘all wet’ when the senator alleged that the Bush administration lied...

<p>Republicans have "perhaps thousands" of internal Democratic judiciary memos like the 14 that caused a stir on Capitol Hill last fall, says a Republican staffer who resigned after an investigation into how the documents were obtained.</p> <p>"Only a small amount of [documents downloaded from Democratic computer servers] have been made public," said Manuel Miranda, former judicial-nominations counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. "The ones made public are the least indicting of the ones."</p>

During the President's speech, which lasted approximately 1 hour, the Sr. Senator from Massachusetts, Edward "Ted" Kennedy demonstrated once again the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words". The speech by President Bush contained just under 5,500 words and itwould appear that at least several of them caused Senator Kennedy great psychic pain... (see photos: http://www.x234.com/teddyk/teddyk.html)

Could the cold weather have put the chill on some of Katie Couric's liberal ardor? You'd almost have to think so, judging from her even-handed, and at times even rough, questioning of Ted Kennedy in the wake of his very tough speech on Iraq. Couric began with a quote from presidential press secretary Scott McClellan to the effect that Pres. Bush exhausted all diplomatic means before going to war and that the world is a safer place without Saddam in power. Kennedy admitted that "clearly the Iraqi people are safer, and that is a testament to the skill of our...

Here he goes!

Teddy sure picked a strange time to be concerned about government spending and special-interest bloat. Strangely, his minions don't seem to mind at all.