Greetings from Toronto Pierson (correction: Pearson) airport! I just read Erik's take on Ted Kennedy, which is overall nicely balanced but also a bit incomplete. Erik significantly understates Kennedy's pivotal role in expanding access to health care and protecting patients in the period before the...
Ted Kennedy
This is the grave of Ted Kennedy. It's hardly necessary here to provide the details of Ted Kennedy's life. After all, he was a seminal figure of American politics for.
Shorter Ross Douthat: If only Ted Kennedy had understood that arbitrarily enforced laws forcing (poor) women to carry pregnancies to term (or seek unsafe abortions on the black market) are.
It's somehow reassuring to come back online and find that some things never change. It's also worth pointing out that -- in addition to the fact that there's nothing wrong with "politicizing" a funeral if these means "celebrating the values that the deceased individual had...
It comes as little surprise that someone who commemorates treason in defense of slavery would fail to notice the absurdity in accusing Ted Kennedy of conspiring against his country, but.
Ted Kennedy has passed.
I have some minor quibbles with Jeffrey Rosen's defense of Joe Biden's handling of the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings. While I agree with Rosen, for example, that the looking into Bork's video records was outrageous, it's also not reasonable to conflate that with Anita...
I was happy to see Ted Kennedy endorse Barack Obama, but he apparently did it in at least some measure for a silly reason:There's more to Sen. Edward Kennedy's endorsement.