2parse/blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wasting no time, ads are already running on Facebook promoting Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to replace Hillary Clinton as she leaves her Senate seat to become Secretary of State. techPresident reported yesterday - before ads were running - that Michael Pinto, the creator of the Facebook group described it “an informal grassroots thing.” The group asks [...]
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that Eric Holder Jr. has the potential to be an attorney general in the mold of Robert F. Kennedy. In a news conference at the Capitol broadcast on C-SPAN,...
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Top Idiots Of The Week Nancy Morgan RightBias.com November 19, 2008 AND THE WINNERS ARE: The winner of this week's Idiot Award is the genius who decided to rename New York City's Triborough Bridge in honor Robert F. Kennedy. For those of you under 35 and/or recent graduates of government schools who don't see the irony in naming a bridge after a Kennedy, just google 'Chappaquidick'. In a close second...
BBC (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Starting with the Vietnam War and the assasination of Bobby Kennedy, this series reflects on why 1968 was significant in world history.
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
N.P.I. recently learned that the U.S. representative serving its district in Redmond, Washington, is likely to be tapped to be Obama's secretary of the interior. Our own Representative Jay Inslee (D-1) is said to be on Obama's short list for secretary, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Inslee has served in Congress since 1999 and was handily reelected this November. He has served on both the House Committee...
Joe Scott 3: Body Politic (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
“Things are moving so fast that a Negro could be president in 40 years.” Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, before he was assassinated on June 6 of that year in Los Angeles. As the Jesuit magazine America noted this week, “Who would have thought that upending the status quo would happen so quickly'”
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
The Warning is a smart, straight ahead, no-nonsense documentary featuring exclusive interviews with recently-published authors Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Crimes Against Nature), Naomi Wolf (The End of America), Chris Hedges (American Fascists), Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine) and Joe Conason (It Can Happen Here).
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
ALBANYâThis picture could have been worth a million words, and raised an interesting question. There was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmental activist, standing in front of the bridge that was being re-dedicated in his father's name. Behind him sat Michael Bloomberg, David Paterson, Bill Clinton and a regiment of Kennedy kin. From the front page of Thursday's New York Times , Bobby Jr. gestured...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
How much of the photographer's art is catching a break and knowing what to do with it? On June 8, 1968, photojournalist Paul Fusco rode the funeral train carrying Robert F. Kennedy from New York to Washington DC. Fusco, then working for LOOK magazine, had been assigned to cover R.F,K.'s funeral at St. Patrick's that morning and, later, his burial at Arlington Cemetery. As the train pulled--slowly,...
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
3-1: Thomas Suozzi. 5-1: Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand. 8-1: Rep. Nita M. Lowey. 12-1: State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. 20-1: Reps. Steve Israel and Brian Higgins. 25-1: Reps. Greg Meeks and Nydia Velasquez. 30-1: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . 100-1: Caroline...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Or President Bobby Kennedy? A reader writes: With regards to your post on the Philadephia Inquirer's website that asked which President is Obama most... . . .
Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher? (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
That's an actual poll at the Philadelphia Inquirer, attached to some story about how wonderful Obama is. (Just in case we'd all forgotten.) Please click on that image and vote for Bobby Kennedy, just to be silly geese. It's an embarrassing mistake, but in the Inquirer's defense, RFK died before most of their remaining staff members' parents were born. The real answer is None of the Above. It's starting...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Read original... The Triborough Bridge was officially renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge at a ceremony held in Astoria Park on Wednesday. Connecting Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, the bridge (I-278), joined the New York landscape in 1936. Former President Bill Clinton, Governor David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gaggle of Kennedys faced the brunt of a bitter wind to honor the former...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Read original... Forty years after his assassination, Robert F. Kennedy is being honored in New York for his life of service — even as a prophecy he made in the months before his death comes true. The Triborough Bridge, which connects the New York boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens, was renamed during a ceremony Wednesday after the New York senator, who was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel...
New York News, Weather, and Sports (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
The last time a New York governor had to appoint a United States senator was in 1968, after the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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kenmofford | 05/31/2008
Fox News analyst Liz Trotta joked when asked in an interview with Fox host Eric Shawn about Hillary's Robert F Kennedy controversial remark and called for the assassination of both Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama. Trotta who is a former Washington Times editor and three-time Emmy winner clearly wasn't thinking (or was she?) when publicly stating "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion
