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Y TED K DOT COM is the best website for info on Ted Kennedy leaving a young woman to die as he ran away to save his political hide. Here is his office number: 202.224.4543. I just made my annual call to his office, this time gurgling water until his staffer hung up the phone. For over eight hours, this slug of a human being was tying to concoct a story that would save himself. He allowed Mary Jo Kopechne to die in an air pocket in six feet of water. She was alive when he left her, and...

To this day, only one person truly knows what happened on a lonely Massachusetts bridge on the night of July 18, 1969. Sometime that evening, a car driven by US senator Ted Kennedy plunged into the icy water below. While the politician survived, his passenger, a 28-year-old aide, was not so lucky. Mary Jo Kopechne died on the road from Chappaquiddick that Friday night. In the ensuing scandal, the presidential hopes of the last of the Kennedy brothers were destroyed. Now the senator has signed a £4million deal to write his memoirs, due out in 2010, raising hopes he is...

very season seems to bring a new best-selling book full of sordid details about the Kennedys, from allegations that JFK was a pill-popping intern predator to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy having a fondness for cocaine.  The Kennedy Curse, by Edward Klein, is the latest entry. The premise is simple: "The Kennedy Curse is the result of the destructive collision between the Kennedys' fantasy of omnipotence — their need to get away with things that others cannot — and the cold, hard realities of life."Sen. Ted Kennedy once wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." Of...

June 15, 2004 Ted Kennedy and the Temple of Booze Dustin M. Hawkins Before I really start, I just want to give a heads up to this weeks inspiration. Earlier I received an e-mail from a reader whose letter contained far too many expletives for me to re-produce here. Unbearably upset by past unfavorable references towards this weeks subject, the reader who will remain totally anonymous (Don G. from Pennsylvania), insisted I never speak about Ted Kennedy again. I was going to stop at just one mention of him in this weeks column, but not being one for small-scale productions...

"It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait." - Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary Sen. Kennedy On Iraq Sen. Kennedy Said Saddam Hussein Was...