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Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States'...

Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama, will visit Pittsburgh Wednesday for the first time during the Pennsylvania primary season. She will host a "Stand for Change" rally at Carnegie Mellon University's Skibo Gymnasium. Michelle Obama will be joined at the rally by special guest Teresa Heinz Kerry, who is making her first appearance on the campaign trail for Barack Obama. The event is free and open to the public.

Senator John F. Kerry already has a Democratic opponent for his U.S. Senate seat. He is not from the party's right since there is barely anyone sitting in those seats in blue Massachusetts. Kerry's antagonist is Ed O'Reilly, a Gloucester lawyer who, according to the Wednesday Boston Globe, is targeting Kerry from the anti-Iraq war left. And, lo and behold, he wants to know the truth about Kerry's military record and has questions himself about the Swift Boat record and the Swift Boat ads. Besides, like a lot of the senator's tormentors, he is suspicious about whether Kerry is really...

Here’s a burning question no one is asking: Whither John F. Kerry? He is his party’s most recent presidential nominee. He came tantalizingly close to winning. And yet no one is looking for him to put his stamp on the 2008 Democratic primary or wondering aloud who he’ll endorse — even though Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile says that in the early-state contests, “most of the voters would be thrilled to know who Kerry would back and why.” But the lack of an audible clamor for an endorsement by Kerry is more than a bit deceiving, as is the...

A Web site partially funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry offers a report glorifying Hezbollah (Hizbullah) suicide bombers as "deified in paradise and venerated on earth for fighting Israel" - and praises the terrorist group's support network for women widowed by their husband's "martyrdom" attacks. "Women's eNews is supported by our readers; reprints and licensing fees; and the Fund for the City of New York, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III fund of the Heinz Family Foundations, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, The Helena Rubinstein Foundation, the Sister...

Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel... The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks. Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party. Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major...

A campaign convenience is no more. Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband... Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards dinner next month, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," according to a release from the organization. The council failed to mention the final half of the Fox Chapel ketchup heiress' formerly elongated last name in several other references.

Karl Rove is no Colombo. Unlike the wrinkled coat-gumshoes of televised fame, Rove could never find the skeletons in the closet. During the last American presidential campaign, Rove went into spy mode.

Teresa Heinz Kerry recently told the attendees of a fund-raiser in Seattle, "Nobody told me what to do," The implicit afterword: Nobody better try. The sails of the philanthropist wife of Senator John Kerry were not trimmed by November's narrow electoral defeat. Environmentalist, Heinz Kerry recently flew into Seattle on her own Gulfstream V jet direct from a conference on global philanthropy at Stanford. She talked energy-efficient building design with Seattle Art Museum boss (and old friend) Mimi Gates. Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were...

If anyone has some major rehabilitation work to do in the new year, it is Teresa Heinz Kerry. As the Kerrys head for their swank vacation home this year without the press corps tallying how much it cost, or the Secret Service following too closely on the slopes, the might-have-been first lady and still extremely major philanthropist has some major thinking to do about the damage she did to her own reputation in the major run that just ended.

Chris Heinz must want revenge. It's only been a few weeks since his stepdad, John Kerry, lost the election, but Heinz is already telling friends that he plans to run for public office one day himself-in Pittsburgh, his family's stronghold... Strong-willed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz gave President Bush her two cents after a Vogue shoot at the White House. The fashion bible has a tradition of featuring the president after every election, so they rushed Leibovitz and feature editor Julia Reed down to D.C. on Nov. 11 to get the story in time for the January issue. But after the...

In a surprise announcement, Al Gore’s cable channel has announced the cancellation of what he and other insiders had hoped would be a series to electrify the 18-24 year old voter demographic in the 2004 election. But as the election neared on November 2nd, industry watchers admitted candidly that the show, “The Two Johns,” about two multi-millionaire attorneys on a quest to wrest the White House from Republican control, had not found the right mix of hip humor, adolescent angst, and political pizzazz to wrest young viewers from such hits as “Pimp My Ride” and “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report.” Former Vice...

A Montgomery County judge unsealed yesterday portions of a civil lawsuit brought by Teresa Heinz Kerry over the 1991 death of her first husband, U.S. Sen. John Heinz. Judge Paul W. Tressler's ruling was a split decision for the parties - Heinz Kerry and The Inquirer. While he unsealed all pleadings, motions, petitions and orders, Tressler said that discovery materials in the lawsuit file could be kept secret. Tressler ordered the file be open for public inspection on Monday. But yesterday afternoon, the state Supreme Court granted Heinz Kerry's attorneys a stay that would keep the file closed until the...

She says that like it's a bad thing. In a Boston Herald article ("Kerry steeling himself for visit to Heinz territory", 1/23/2002), Teresa Heinz Kerry revealed her true feelings about the Packers loyalists. She mentioned that, at the 1996 Super Bowl, Green Bay Packer fans were "partying harder than anyone she had ever seen". "I've never seen fans drink so much," she said.

If she becomes first lady, Teresa Heinz Kerry intends to champion the cause of health care reform, much the same way Hillary Clinton did in 1994. And just like Hillary, Teresa has her husband's backing. In Jan. 2003, Heinz Kerry told the Boston Herald that she expects to be an "activist first lady." And her first priority would be to create a "Department of Wellness" that would stress preventive health reforms. Until recently, Teresa's Department of Wellness had been consigned to the dustbin of wacky campaign ideas. Or so it seemed. Then In September, John Kerry told a North Carolina...

A blogger on the official John Kerry campaign Web site has offered a telling insight into the Kerry campaign in her account (since removed) of a December campaign party. "We had 200 guests eating, drinking, and watching the MoveOn documentary 'Uncovered,' featuring Joseph Wilson and Rand Beers from the Kerry campaign," wrote blogger Pamela Leavey, describing a Kerry event that did not include John Kerry himself. "When Theresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: 'Asses of Evil' with 'Bush,' 'Cheney,' 'Rumsfeld,' and 'Ashcroft.' surrounding it." Asses of Evil — get it? And how fitting...

"I don't know that she's ever had a real job," Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Sen. John Kerry, said of Laura Bush this week. That says something about both Mrs. Kerry and those involved in her husband's campaign for president. What it says ought to anger those who toil day in, day out working to educate American children. Mrs. Bush, as most people know, worked for several years as a school teacher, then as a librarian before meeting and marrying her husband, George W. Bush, who went on to become president. Mrs. Kerry is, of course, known for refusing to...

All right, ladies and gentlemen, as you gaze out over the country, and as you watch the news each and every day, do you not get the impression that love is in the air? Do you not? I do. I look out over the country. I watch the news each and every day and I see the party of love. I see the party of warmth, of feelings. I see that party reaching out to all of us. The Democrats, yes, the party of love, they offer understanding. They offer compassion. They are reaching out to those in need with...

. . . . . Which brings me to the puzzling outcome of Tessie's Cuba Libra. Tessie's Cuba Libra is a cover story I wrote in July about the Tides Foundation donating money to the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), whose Toronto-based Canadian affiliate used an underwater cable link from Havana to Sprint in the United States, to connect Fidel Castro's Cuba to the World Internet. The Institute for Global Communications made no bones about where they got their money. The Heinz endowments, two foundations with combined assets of more than $1 billion, have donated $8 million to the Tides...

"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," Teresa Heinz Kerry said last month to New York relief workers sending supplies to victims of Hurricane Ivan. "Let's just say that remark probably wasn't in her talking points," said one Democratic source described at the time as being close to the Kerry campaign. The recent diversion from the talking points by the woman John Kerry's daughters reportedly refer to as "Step Money" came in an interview with USA Today, in which Teresa apparently decided First Lady Laura Bush was "fair game" for attack: "Well,...

Millionaires Raising Millions Bush and Kerry have new major donors in common Millionaires to spare personal assets Based on a new Center analysis of financial disclosure forms, the two presidential candidates are millionaires, though none can use more than $50,000 of his own money unless he opts out of federal matching funds. Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry have a disclosed worth of as much as $747 million, but the most that Senator Kerry can lay claim to as his own is $14.8 million of those assets. The bulk of the fortune belongs to Heinz Kerry, though the two...

Teresa Heinz Kerry was at the Neil Road Recreation Center [Reno, NV] this afternoon pitching her husbands proposals for improving health care and shoring up Social Security...She drew laughs talking about a treatment for arthritis she had heard about: eating gin-soaked raisins.

Teresa Heinz Kerry Releases 2003 Tax Info; Paid Over $798,000 in Federal, State Income Taxes Fri Oct 15 2004 17:44:41 ET Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry announced today that she has filed her final 2003 federal tax forms and as she said promised last spring, has released the top two pages of her 1040 tax filings. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $798,820 in state and federal income taxes in 2003, approximately 35 percent of her gross taxable income, according to figures and federal tax forms she released today. Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $627,150 in federal income taxes on gross taxable income of...

What is the story about John Kerry's first wife? I heard that while she was ill, he divorced her. Is this true? Does anyone know any details?

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, attacked the Bush administration on all fronts Thursday during a speech to 1,100 mostly Democratic supporters at the McDonald Theatre downtown. Bush-Cheney supporters in the crowd chanted "four more years, four more years" at the start of Heinz Kerry's speech. The first such group - five or six men and women in their early 20s - left without incident, theater operator Kit Kesey said. The second group - three men - scuffled briefly with the crowd and were being pushed toward an exit when police escorted them out. Police made...

...Talking about health care, Vice President Dick Cheney noted that his opponent set up a personal corporation that allowed him to avoid paying $600,000 in Medicare taxes.... Senator Edwards responded that he had paid all the taxes he owed -- which was never in dispute -- and that he favored the closing of all such loopholes. "They ought to be closed whether they're personal, and they ought to be closed whether they apply to a corporation," he averred.... Democrats have made much out of the fact that Vice President Cheney still receives deferred compensation from his former company, Halliburton, even...

"Vote early and vote often" has long been the Democrat establishment's slogan. Now, as the party cranks up its election fraud machine more zealously than ever before, Teresa Heinz Kerry has a slight update: "Vote often and vote well." That's what the aspiring first lady said during a recent appearance in Minneapolis. When readers first alerted us, we found the claims too outrageous to believe, but we tracked down her quotation in the liberal St. Paul Pioneer Press. There is one positive aspect to the appallingly cynical comment: At least she didn't say it in a Chicago cemetery.

TAKE A LETTER, TERESA Note to Teresa Heinz Kerry. Pipe down. It's not that you have an opinion, it's that we're tired of your frothing rants, ludicrous assertions and red-faced tirades. Honestly, out here in middle American we find you to be loud and rude and immature. The fact of the matter, quite simply, is that you aren’t the nominee and we don’t give a damn what you think. You have no voting record by which we can judge your background and competence. You have no history of leadership in either the state or federal political arena. All we see...

Teresa Heinz Kerry blasted President Bush's conduct of the war on terror and touted her husband's plans for health care and education in a speech last night to Westmoreland County Democrats. The war in Iraq has cost America the respect of her allies and the United States is losing the war in Afghanistan, Heinz Kerry said at a dinner at the Sheraton Four Points in Greensburg. "On 9/12 every single newspaper in the world said 'We are all Americans.' Today it is not the case," she said. By sending American troops to Iraq instead of to Afghanistan, Bush permitted Osama...

Even to the party faithful, an hourlong speech dense with terms like "costing the differential" is a tough sell. But Teresa Heinz Kerry came to Pueblo and sold it Friday. The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry was nearly an hour late when she finally showed for a town hall meeting at the Colorado State Fair Grounds, in the 4-H Pavilion just down the row from the sheep, swine and goat barn. By the time she got there, the crowd of more than 500 had gone through a God Bless America singalong and round-robin cheers of "John! Kerry!...

Hinojosa coordinating with Democratic leaders tonight Leading Hidalgo County Democrats and campaign contributors are meeting tonight to plan for a possible visit by Teresa Heinz Kerry to the Rio Grande Valley in early October. Tonight's meeting, organized by U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Mercedes), takes place at the Cornerstone Grill in Edinburg, Border Buzz has learned. Valley Democrats view a visit by Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, as a substitute for a campaign swing by vice presidential candidate John Edwards that never happened. Edwards was due to visit McAllen in July for an event organized by Kerry's...

The Pittsburgh TV station that aired an interview with Teresa Heinz Kerry where she blasted her critics as "scumbags" is defending the outburst, claiming the word was taken out of context by The New Yorker magazine. "One comment getting attention in the article is a claim that Heinz Kerry called her detractors 'scumbags' during an interview last April with Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin," the TV station explained late Monday. "A check of that tape shows that while Heinz Kerry did use the word, it came in the context of discussing what her son Chris called the 'noble...

I saw on Fox News tonight that Teresa Heinz Kerry says her critics are "scumbags"... well, folks, stand up and be counted. I've been watching file footage of her for some time now, and I am struck by how unsteady she is on her feet in most of these segments. She seems to stumble and stagger with alarming frequency... what's with that? Is she drunk? Drugged? Suffering from a neurological impairment? And what of those outrageous pronouncements of hers? Why was Kitty Dukakis's treatment for alcoholism and depression a subject for grave concern during her husband's presidential run, but no...

In an interview of Teresa Heinz Kerry ("The Candidate's Wife," written by Judith Thurman) posted September 20, 2004 at NewYorker.com, we learn a little more than we previously knew about Ms. Kerry's habit of letting insults fly without restraint or apology. Her angry retort to a reporter from a perceived "right-wing" Pittsburgh newspaper ("...now shove it!") is the stuff of Presidential campaign legend. Courtesy of Ms. Thurman, we now have this additional nugget: [Heinz Kerry] dismissed voters skeptical of her husband’s health-care proposals as “idiots,” and, in a television interview with a Pittsburgh anchorwoman, employed the word “scumbags” to describe...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), said that President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s policies have taken educational and health care opportunities from US Latinos as they grew poorer. She said that under the Bush administration about 50 percent of Hispanic students have been unable to finish high school and that one out of three Latinos lacks health insurance. "The price of this president's failed health care policies is paid in the coin of human suffering, and for Latinos, that price is far too high," Teresa Heinz...

LANCASTER, Pa. - Teresa Heinz Kerry said Wednesday that "only an idiot" would fail to support her husband's health care plan. "Of course, there are idiots," Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, told the (Lancaster) Intelligencer Journal for Thursday's editions. Kerry's proposal includes health care subsidies for children, the unemployed, small companies and more; and government assistance to insurers and employers that keep premiums for workers down. If Kerry is elected, Heinz Kerry predicted that opponents of his health care plan would be voted out of office. "Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she said. Heinz...

While sipping a Pimm's Cup with Teresa in the Deluxe Suite at the Atlanta Ritz Carlton, I had what some down south might call a 'hankering' for some barbecue. Teresa suggested that we send our house servant, Mrs. Landingham out for take out. See, we had brought Mrs. Landingham with us to reward her with a working vacation. She was originally to have her own room, but my daughter Vanessa decided to join us, so Teresa decided that Mrs. Landingham could sleep on the pull out couch in the den, rather than get her own room, that way, she would...

September 3, 2004--Cedar Rapids Heinz Kerry Hammers Healthcare The Democrats chose a different plan of attack to compete with the Bush rally in Cedar Rapids. Teresa Heinz Kerry met with about half a dozen people at the home of Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston. The small group talked about their concerns with the nation's healthcare system. Topping Heinz Kerry's list of concerns are restricted coverage for low-income people, the growing cost for prescription drugs, and adequate healthcare for childern. She says healthcare is one of the most important issues in this election. "We can not have healthcare becoming a double...

A little while back worldnetdaily.com had an article which related how Teraaaaaza Heinz Kerry told the Democratic National Convention's "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender caucus" to call her Mama T. Teraaaza said "I know that I am welcomed and I am grateful to be welcomed. I'm grateful to you because you symbolize family. You symbolize strength and hope. You symbolize resistance. And you symbolize tolerance. For that we are all thankful to you." Speaking to the group she related a story about a man at a past campaign stop who told her, "I want you to be my mother." (BARF)...

http://www.jump2net.com/stuff/button.gif Is this collusion with a 527 by the Kerry campaign? You decide.

Thursday, August 19, 2004 WASHINGTON - Her husband may be campaigning to convince voters he's qualified to be president, but Teresa Heinz Kerry says he's not up for the job. In fact, she says, no one can live up to the awesome challenges and responsibilities posed by the powers of the presidency. ``I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States,'' Heinz Kerry said in an interview in the latest issue of Reader's Digest. ``I mean, are you qualified to run the world - not to run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is.''...

Thursday, August 5, 2004 TERESA HEINZ KERRY 'Shove it' showed her true colors BY KEN KURSON Ken Kurson is co-author, with Rudolph Giuliani, of "Leadership." July 29, 2004 Since Sunday night I've waited for a single journalist to get this story right, this story of an ugly lie that's been reduced to an adorable quip. I'm referring to the shocking story of a First Wife wannabe lying to a reporter, insulting him and then getting not only a pass but an "attagirl" from a press corps so hungry for any sign of life from the Democrats that they've repackaged the...

Wise Irishman      "I am having fun listening to Teresa Heinz Kerry. The Democrats muzzled Hillary Rodham Clinton in '92 after the 'baking cookies' remark, but I don't think John Kerry will be able to do so with his meal ticket. When I was growing up, I had friends who wanted to marry girls with some wealth, but my dad, a wise old Irishman, told me: 'No one works harder for his money than the man who marries it.' "     — Irish-American Republicans founder and co-chairman Frank Duggan.

The time has long past for Teresa Heinz Kerry to end the free ride she has been enjoying ever since she used her immense inherited wealth for the second time in less than eight years to resuscitate her husband's faltering political career. She needs to reveal the details of her finances, which Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has deftly exploited to his maximum political benefit — first during his tightly contested 1996 Senate race and then during this year's Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses.

Bogus e-mail messages claim she's given millions to "radical" groups, some linked to terrorists, and located Heinz factories overseas. Both claims are false. 08.04.2004 Summary False allegations about Kerry's wife have been circulating for months, but the velocity of the Internet "whispering campaign" picked up substantially with the approach of the Fall campaign. One false message claims Teresa Heinz Kerry gave $4 million to a foundation that used the funds to support a list of "radical" groups including one with alleged links to Hamas and another that is said to have offered to provide a lawyer for Saddam Hussein. But...

“Isn’t she great?” said candidate Kerry in Milwaukee, following the “four more years of hell” remark of his wife Teresa. Lawyer Kerry surely knows that, technically speaking, he is asking a question, not necessarily paying  a compliment. “And by the way, how great was Teresa Heinz Kerry last night?” said running mate Edwards to the Democratic National Convention. Another lawyer asking another question, masquerading as a compliment. Teresa Heinz, as she still formally calls herself, (“Teresa Heinz Kerry” is her self-described “political name”) has emerged as a problem for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Her husband, who advertises his diplomatic skills as...

It's only a matter of time before we witness another Howard Dean Moment in the Democratic presidential race -- but not, I predict, from any of the Democratic presidential candidates. Skulking in the campaign background is a ticking time bombette with a volatile temper and acid tongue who makes Dean look like Mr. Rogers on Prozac. She's the wife of front-runner Sen. John Kerry, Teresa Heinz. Formerly known as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira, the hot-headed widow of the late Pennsylvania GOP Sen. John Heinz is self-aggrandizingly known among her wealthy liberal friends and fellow environmental radicals as "Saint Teresa" (and...

Before telling a reporter to "shove it" last week, Teresa Heinz Kerry complained that there were "creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" to the presidential campaign. Few people outside of Wilkes-Barre care much about the epithet "un-Pennsylvanian," but in dropping the "un-American" bomb she highlighted an important truth about today's politics: It is the Democrats who routinely question the GOP's patriotism, not the other way around. This makes for a fascinating stew of cognitive dissonance, transference, and probably odd psychological maladies yet to be identified and labeled. It's not easy to question the patriotism of people you are denouncing for...