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What would make a fitting legacy for Ted Kennedy in the Senate? I think it would be the election of a Senator to take his place, who committed to the same great public ideas that Senator Kennedy spoke about, so often and passionately. Teddy often spoke of his dedication to and respect for the Constitution. This is to be expected where Sam Adams created the Sons of Liberty who threw the tea in Boston Harbor. And where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at, and later fired by, the Minutemen at Concord and Lexington. So, the person...

At the end of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer fondly remembered Ted Kennedy, exclaiming: "In a sense he was the classic American hero, the imperfect man who was sorely tested and yet in that testing found a way to overcome personal flaws and go on to accomplish great things." Schieffer began his commentary by noting how Kennedy: "...crashed and crashed again during the early turns of his life, but somehow he kept on going through the sorrows and tragedies over which he had no control and the self-destructiveness over which he did. And in the final...

Just when viewers became exhausted by TV's gavel-to-shovel coverage of Ted Kennedy's funeral, along came former Vice President Dick Cheney to stir the pot. Cheney gained national attention with his spirited attack on Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to investigate charges that CIA interrogators allegedly tortured suspected terrorists. It's an opportune time, then, to glance back at the careers of both men, who have spent their lives in public service. Despite his checkered past, Kennedy has always been a media darling, while Cheney has been portrayed as both a hero (as Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War) and a...

Teddy Kennedy has left a long string of harassed and hushed women going back decades, one of whom, we all know, was left to die underwater near Chappaquiddick in 1969. The fact that the homicide he committed likely kept him from becoming president is often uproariously cited as his "cost" for that murderous incident. A sober assessment of Kennedy's life, though, can't help but come to the conclusion that crime does, indeed, pay, and richly. And if you are a Kennedy, the Media is your accomplice, your bag man, your getaway driver. And the covering for Kennedy continues even after...

Here is video of Sen. John Kerry today being asked on Meet the Press if Ted Kennedy would have wanted his Senate seat "to be filled by a Kennedy?" Kerry said, "Of course he would, but the people of Massachusetts will make that decision." There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether one of the Kennedys will run for the vacant seat that Ted Kennedy held for 47 years. . . . . . (Watch Video)

"Death makes angels of us all," wrote the author and poet, Jim Morrison. So it appears to be with the demise of the "Liberal lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy. The man whose life reads like a manual for bad behavior is, in death, being lionized by those who continue to repudiate his myriad transgressions. What kind of a country are we if we willingly blind ourselves to evil because it masquerades as virtue?

True, Kennedy was masterful at 'the personal touch' when it came to public relations. Perhaps this was his greatest strength. But the record shows that his political ideology was the exact opposite to that of the majority of the American people--sometimes dangerously so. Information has been uncovered which shows that Kennedy should have been arrested for treason. And, in spite of several publications that repoted the following facts, the media totally ignored them.

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy. "On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged...