So Mary ran uptown to drop something off, and then she stopped into a little antiques store on Rosemary St, and then she thought, "I'll just pop my into Red Window" (a furniture store opened by Elizabeth Edwards promising some sort of oddball discounting of fancy chairs and whatnot). And Mary goes in and who does she find sitting there jabbering on his cellphone, alone minding the place,...
Former Democrat vice presidential nominee and presidential hopeful John Edwards and his wife want to extend their 15 minutes of fame. Despite John Edwards’ extramarital affair that rocked his marriage, his wife described their union as a "love story," albeit an unconventional one. Elizabeth Edwards told WJLA-TV in Washington late last week that she wants her marriage [...]
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Elizabeth Edwards recently told a local news station that her husband, John Edwards, is still a world-class bullshit artist. Not in those words, exactly, but when you consider that Edwards almost definitely fathered a child with Rielle Hunter and even (allegedly) told the Overboard extra that the Dave Matthews Band would play at their rooftop wedding once the missus had died, you have to look askance...
John and Elizabeth Edwards during the 2008 presidential campaign. (CNN) – Despite John Edwards' extramarital affair that rocked his marriage, his wife described their union as a "love story," albeit an unconventional one. Elizabeth Edwards told WJLA-TV in Washington late last week she wants her marriage to work, and that her husband has been supportive as she [...]
". . . As you know, medical expenses are a major factor in nearly two-thirds of bankruptcy filings." That's from Elizabeth Edwards's testimony before Congress earlier this week. A few months ago, Megan McArdle debunked the junk social science on which this bit of testimony was based. Aparna Mathur has also gone through the many, many ways the study inflated its finding. Mathur estimates that...
John Edwards is putting up Rielle Hunter—and the daughter he fathered with her—in $6,550-a-month, 3,600-square-foot seaside home just down the beach from the Edwards' Wilmington, N.C.,...
The Enquirer is claiming that Elizabeth Edwards has approved of this, but we highly doubt that could be true! Cheating politician John Edwards has indeed sprung for a mansion just minutes away from his own in Wilmington, North Carolina to house his mistress Rielle Hunter and their love child Frances. After the DNA test came back positive, [...]
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “Medical Debt: Can Bankruptcy Reform Facilitate a Fresh Start.” The hearing examined medical bankruptcies in America, and witnesses included CAP fellow Elizabeth Edwards and Kerry Burns, a Rhode Island mother who was forced into “financial ruin” by her late son’s medical bills. One of the highlights of [...]...
WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former US senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, said bankruptcy laws should be changed to provide relief for people overburdened with medical debt.
Elizabeth Edwards is planning to divorce her husband John, reports the National Enquirer . It was The Enquirer that first reported that John Edwards had had an affair.
Kaus, on the Elizabeth Edwards follies: "Elizabeth Edwards had to know at least that there was a good chance Young was not the father--and that her husband was. She certainly had known for a long time that her husband had had an affair with the mother, Rielle Hunter. Perhaps she wasn't proceeding with sure knowledge that she was asking Young to lie for her again, but it's hard to see how she wasn't...
Thinking of my piece in Slate/Double X on Ted Kennedy growing into a "feminist icon" and the discussion about it that has ensued among friends on Facebook, one thing I bet both my Democratic and Republican friends can agree on is that in retrospect, Kennedy was not the cad or the betrayer of feminist values in his marriage to Vicki that John Edwards, who once aspired to be a feminist champion,...
Which man cares that his wife stood next to him in tough times? Definitely not John Edwards! The former Presidential candidate cheated on his wife Elizabeth with Rielle Hunter, who’s most likely the mother of John’s child. In the mean [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Elizabeth Edwards is about to divorce her lying, cheating husband, reports the leading authority on the life and lies of John Edwards, the National Enquirer . If it's true that John promised to marry Rielle Hunter on a rooftop , with music supplied by the Dave Matthews Band, just as soon as Elizabeth dies, I hope Elizabeth divorces him and takes every last cent of the creep's 52 million dollars. Maybe...
Both John Ensign and John Edwards, and their respective affairs, were back in the news this week. They had probably been hoping their storms had passed. They were wrong. Today The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau and Eric Lipton ran a thorough , and damning, piece on Ensign's attempts at helping Douglas Hampton acquire lobbying work. Hampton was a close friend and former aide to Ensign. Oh, and the husband...