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Edward M. Kennedy

  • News

    April 18, 2012

    Mitt Romney, American Parasite

    His years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Frederic Morton: How I Voted Bella

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 5, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 40 How I voted Bella by Frederic Morton A two months' absence from New York makes you feel, returning, like a virgin again. Again everything shocks. The litter on Broadway, the sooty moist fog rated "Acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Don't Ask Don't Tell Opponents Pick Up Some Unlikely Support

    While John McCain gets crankier and crankier about repealing Don't Ask, Don't tell, opponents of the policy have picked up a couple of unlikely allies on the right. After much lobbying, Sen. Scott Brown has finally come around and said he will consider voting to end Don't Ask (along with the usua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Prop 8, Michelle Obama, Ground Zero Mosque: Are Conservatives Basically The Honky Party?

    Last week Judge Vaughn Walker's decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightblogger outrage, also expected, that Michelle Obama and her daughters had a swell, privately-funded v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Chicago 1968: Things Start to Get Ugly

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 29, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 46 Outside the Arena: Prelims are Bloody by Paul Cowan and Jack Newfield CHICAGO -- The lid blew off Monday night. In the Amphitheatre: Hubert Humphrey made his pact with the South and John Connally be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Is Scott Brown Just Sarah Palin With More Balls?

    ​Or, more accurately, with real balls? Now that a few days have passed since the stud shockingly nabbed the senatorial spot in Massachusetts and we've braced ourselves for him to trounce on Teddy Kennedy's grave with regards to the health reform bill and other issues, we can perhaps sit back ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate

    ​The election of Republican Scott Brown to replace the deceased Ted Kennedy in the Senate from Massachusetts yesterday destroys the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority, widely presumed to be needed for passage of a health care bill, or so it would seem from headlines ("House Dems largely reject i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Scott Brown-Martha Coakley Race Speeds to Awful Finish

    ​Tomorrow is the day President Obama's socialist health care plan comes to an end, allegedly, as Republican Scott Brown is showing unexpected strength against Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special election to replace the deceased Ted Kennedy . As with last year's hilarious NY-23 congr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Rightbloggers, Sarah Palin Celebrate Failure of Obama Hitler Health Care Speech

    Congressman Joe Wilson's cry of "Lie!" at President Obama's health care speech had not stopped reverberating in the halls of Congress before rightbloggers declared it a failure. Scared Monkeys refutes Obama's claim that preventative care would save money. "Preventative medicine saves lives, it doe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Barron Enraged at Bill de Blasio's Black Wife in Flyer

    ​We thought the mailer for Public Advocate candidate Bill de Blasio featuring his wife Chirlane -- who is black -- and their kids was cute, as the headline "He Gets It" could be interpreted all sorts of ways depending on the constituency. But councilmember Charles Barron -- who is black -- con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Live: Spike Lee Throws Michael Jackson One Hell Of A Birthday Party In Prospect Park

    Pix by Puja Patel, many more below Thousands of people flooded Prospect Park Saturday afternoon for Michael Jackson's 51st birthday party. Hosted by Spike Lee (who worked on the "They Don't Really Care About Us" video), the five-hour event, held together by an epic, all-MJ set from Brooklyn's DJ Sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Senator Orrin Hatch Salutes Ted Kennedy in Song

    Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch did not let the fact that the last video on his YouTube channel was "Perils Of Government-Run Health Care" deter him from recording a hastily written homage to his good friend Ted Kennedy. Let's just do this verbatim, shall we?

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.

    President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Mob Expected at DA Candidate's Kick-Off Party

    Cyrus Vance Jr.'s campaign to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan District Attorney is holding its big kickoff fundraiser on March 31st. Tickets range from $50,000 (event chair level), to $500 (mere guest). The event will be held at an interesting location for an aspiring crime-busting DA: Fr ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 28, 2009

    David Paterson and Kirsten Gillibrand: New Senator, New Scandal

    The Governor's pick is genuine machine-made royalty

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Caroline Kennedy and 'Daily News' columnist Michael Daly: The princess and the pea-brain

    Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Caroline Kennedy in the Senate? Gag me with a silver spoon.

    Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Rotten Tomatoes: Republicans Defeat Windfall Oil Profits Tax

    Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Rudy Can Fail

    Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    Troops in Iraq, Now and Forever

    Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

  • News

    May 9, 2006

    Bush the Alien

    The president angers his base and his new allies on immigration

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    The CIA's 'Black Sites'

    What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

  • News

    February 14, 2006

    Letters

    What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington

    Peace mom takes her message to the president, Congress, and a lot of television crews

  • News

    September 20, 2005

    Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington

    Peace mom takes her message to the president, Congress, and a lot of television crews

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2005

    Weiner & The Rating Game

    Peace mom takes her message to the president, Congress, and a lot of television crews

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2005

    Morning Report 4/19/05
    Bolton: Reagan's Personal Stonewall Hero

    Peace mom takes her message to the president, Congress, and a lot of television crews

  • News

    March 29, 2005

    Greed Aid

    Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you

  • News

    March 15, 2005

    Kids in the Thrall

    You make chump change. And Congress likes it that way.

  • News

    August 3, 2004

    Pols Are Out to Lunch

    Corporations mount a schmear campaign during the conventions

  • News

    July 27, 2004

    Trick or Treat for GOP

    Police and fire unions may force President Bush to cross a picket line

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Opening With a Whimper

    Running a shell game of their former selves, Democrats start the convention without us

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Rebooting the Democrats

    First, though, the DLC gives the boot to the New Deal crowd

  • News

    May 4, 2004

    The Humane Society

    The leashes belonged on our own soldiers—no matter how you spin it

  • News

    May 4, 2004

    Rummy Must Go

    The leashes belonged on our own soldiers—no matter how you spin it

  • News

    April 27, 2004

    Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

    Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    GAO Decides to Investigate Medicare Ads

    Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

  • News

    February 24, 2004

    Humpty-Dumpty, Off the Wall

    Will Dean's Movement Also Fall Apart?

  • News

    January 20, 2004

    Pre-Debate, Kerry Stumps Poorly, Clark Brags About His Fastball

    Edwards Starts To Look Better in Comparison

  • News

    December 30, 2003

    Bill Kill

    How to get the public interested in campaign finance reform? Think Pam Grier.

  • News

    October 28, 2003

    A Judge Who Did Justice

    'You Have Committed a Despicable Act,' Said Sentencing Judge Pickering

  • Music

    May 20, 2003

    Loser on a Roll

    Jon Langford Makes Friends and Influences People

  • News

    May 13, 2003

    A Robert Byrd in Hand Is Worth Two Bushes

    Going Like 90 Against the War

  • News

    February 11, 2003

    The Facts: Schumer v. Pickering

    Glaring Racial Insensitivity?

  • News

    February 6, 2001

    Dark Victory

    The Unintended Consequences of Failing to Stop Ashcroft

  • News

    September 19, 2000

    Saving Babies

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    Nation

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    July 27, 1999

    Nation

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    Dousing Sparks

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    June 23, 1998

    RICO Swallows the First Amendment

    NOW Has Put All Political Protests in Serious Danger

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