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As Senate Democrats proclaimed the 60 votes needed to pass health-care reform, Kennedy biographer Adam Clymer says the late senator would have backed this bill. Ted Kennedy thought this moment would come, though by this spring he did not expect to see it. In May, he wrote to President Obama that he was “confident… that while I will not be there when it happens, you will be the president who at long last signs into law the health-care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society. For me, this cause stretched across decades; it has been disappointed, but...

Dear Friends, Thank you for your support for the ongoing work of the Constitution Party. Frankly, it's only people like you who stand in the way of a complete destruction of traditional American values. No one knows better than you the damage that is being done to our great country by the people in power. Even with the Republicans in charge of both Houses of Congress and the White House, our race away from Constitutional principles has reached breakneck speed. Every day our deficit balloons, our national sovereignty grows more fractured, and our security is diminished. Yet, for so many...

October 16, 2004 Service Members, Families Say Pentagon Sent Too Few Troops To Iraq, Stressed National Guard and Reserves, Should Allow Photos of Coffins at Dover Even though they support George W. Bush’s handling of the situation in Iraq in general, America’s military service members and their families are convinced that the Administration underestimated the number of troops it needed in Iraq and put too much of a burden on inadequately trained and equipped National Guard and reserve forces. From September 22 through October 5, Annenberg polled 655 adults who have either served on active duty between February and October...