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Youngest Brother Enhanced Legacy, and Built His Own - For millions of Americans, the announcement that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has brain cancer was at least the fourth chapter of a tragic epic that began on Nov. 22, 1963, with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (READ MORE)
Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Detainee Abuse Ignored - Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security Council but prompted no effort to curb questioning that the agents considered ineffective and possibly illegal... (READ MORE)
Elderly Chinese Cling to Ruins - CHAPING, China -- To reach this shattered, deserted mountain town, Chen Tong Quan hiked for six hours the other day, his third trip back since the earthquake to convince his mother-in-law that it was time to go. (READ MORE)
Iranian Activists Criticize New Restrictions on Web Sites - TTEHRAN, May 20 -- Iranian bloggers and activists on Tuesday condemned a move by a government panel to block access to several Web sites related to women's issues and human rights. (READ MORE)
Iraq Sends Troops Into Sadr City - BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Thousands of Iraqi soldiers entered the volatile Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, meeting virtually no resistance from Shiite militiamen who in recent weeks have clashed heavily with U.S. and Iraqi troops, Iraqi officials said. (READ MORE)
Obama hits target on delegates - Sen. Barack Obama last night said he had reached a major milestone toward the Democratic presidential nomination, shortly after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a big win in Kentucky and pledged to fight on until "every vote is cast." (READ MORE)
Campaign's effects to last even longer - Every move that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton makes in the final weeks of the prolonged presidential primary shapes her legacy and will determine how united the Democratic Party can be in the fall. (READ MORE)
Judges stance bolsters McCain - Prominent conservatives and activists are indicating they will put aside their differences with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and rally their supporters to his side because of one issue: federal judgeships. (READ MORE)
FBI agents opt out of harsh interrogations - An FBI agent assigned in 2002 to help obtain intelligence from a top al Qaeda operative challenged the interrogation techniques used on the terrorism suspect by the CIA, taking what a government report yesterday described as his "strong concerns" to senior officials in the bureau's counterterrorism division. (READ MORE)
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Richard Landes: Karsenty Wins Court Decision!! - More details to follow. But word from Paris is that the court dismissed charges against Philippe Karsenty today. Now we get to see how the French (and Western) MSM handle this. It’s a stunning victory for Karsenty and loss for Enderlin and France2 who initiated this case when they didn’t have to. In order for an appeals court to reverse a decision, they must have strong evidence to the contrary. The fact that they did indicates that their written decision will be very critical of France2. The implications of this decision are immense. We’ll be following up in the days, weeks and months to come. (READ MORE)
Phyllis Chesler: Musings on a Rainy Afternoon: From Myanmar to Celebrity-Gods - Lately, the days are all raw and rainy. This is strange weather for May in Manhattan but who dares to complain? At least we are not enduring earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis, or forest fires. I cannot imagine the suffering of those in Myanmar who have just lost their loved ones, their homes, and their health-- to the weather. May God have mercy upon them. Thus far, humanity has not risen to the occasion. The same United Nations that would not "intervene" to save the victims in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Congo, or Darfur are not saving those condemned to death, not by an earthquake, but by their own leaders in Myanmar. Those who continue to call for matters to be settled (not by American military intervention) but by some imagined beneficent Tribe of Elders known as "the international community," are queerly quiet now as are all those diplomats who say that we must first meet and reason with the kind of evil men who control life and death in Myanmar. (READ MORE)
Kathleen Parker: Oh Yes, He Will Make Us Better - Chivalry is still charming, as Barack Obama proved when he recently warned Tennessee Republicans to leave his wife alone. He was commenting on a GOP Web ad that highlights Michelle Obama's comment, made at a rally in February, that she was proud of America for the first time in her adult life. When asked about the ad Monday during an interview on "Good Morning America," Obama said Republicans were welcome to pick on him and his track record, but not his wife. "If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable. The notion that you start attacking my wife, or my family ... is just low class. ... Lay off my wife, all right?" (READ MORE)
John Stossel: McCain Finds His Crisis in Global Warming - "Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, ... we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge" With that, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain threw his support -- again -- to a complex government program to reduce carbon emissions. He claims he can do this, without causing economic hardship, by using the power of the free market. As The Wall Street Journal commented, "His plan is 'market based' insofar as it requires an expensive, invasive government bureaucracy to interfere with the market". (READ MORE)
Craig Shirley: Skeletons In The Closets - Sir George Bernard Shaw once said, "If you can't hide the skeleton in your closet, then you'd better learn how to make him dance." Democrats and their enablers in the liberal media would like nothing better than to hide their embarrassing racial skeletons as they are on the verge of nominating the first black man ever to make a serious bid for the White House. Reminding me of this, was watching my friend Paul Begala and Donna Brazile mix it up on CNN recently over Hillary’s Clinton’s blatant pursuit of white voters in the Democratic primaries. This comes on the heels of her husband Bill also making open appeals to white voters. Begala said he did not want to be in a party with “liberal eggheads and African Americans.” The mind reels at the grief Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Mark Levin would bring down on themselves if any were to utter a similar phrase. (READ MORE)
Tony Blankley: Onward Into Cheerful Political Battle - Look, I am as willing as the next conservative pundit to throw back a tumbler or two of whiskey and whine about our plight this election season. But in the past week, the Republican/conservative (hereinafter: RC) depression has become pathological. From the pages of The Wall Street Journal to Human Events to the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives, RC comments are sliding from the sensible observation that this may be a tough election cycle to unjustified self-loathing. Don't loathe conservatism (or the GOP); loathe liberalism. Conservatism will persist and more often than not prevail precisely because it realistically describes the human condition. It recognizes the fallen condition of man and thus rejects utopian principles of human perfection, or as conservatives like to say, we refuse to futilely try to immanentize the eschaton (bring heaven on earth). (READ MORE)
Michelle Malkin: Barack Obama: Gaffe Machine - All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of "potatoe." The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to brand him permanently as out of touch. But what about Barack Obama? The guy's a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign: -- Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12. (READ MORE)
Walter E. Williams: Control Criminals Not Guns - Every time there's a highly publicized shooting, out go the cries for stricter gun control laws, and it was no different with the recent murder of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, in a letter to the state congressional delegation demanding reenactment of the federal assault weapon ban, said, "Passing this legislation will go a long way to protecting those who put their lives on the line every day for us. … There is no excuse to do otherwise." Gun control laws will not protect us from murderers. We need protection from the criminal justice system politicians have created. Let's look at it. (READ MORE)
Terence Jeffrey: The Great Polar Bear Population Puzzle - Before anybody tries to change the world to save polar bears, which the Department of Interior listed as "threatened" last week, somebody should figure out how many polar bears there are. When the world's foremost polar bear scientists gathered in Alaska in 1965 for their first international meeting, they confronted a cold fact: They did not know. Edward Carlson, then-chief of wildlife research at the U.S. Department of Interior, opened the session by quoting a speech by Sen. E.L. "Bob" Bartlett, D-Alaska, who hosted the conference. "I am informed that at the present time there are no accurate or reliable figures available on the total world polar bear population or on the size of the annual kill," Bartlett had said. The Canadian delegation, according to the meeting's proceedings, summarized the varying extant estimates. (READ MORE)
Austin Bay: Memorial Day 2008 - "We're a military at war, not a nation at war," the lieutenant colonel said ever so quietly but harshly as he leaned across the table at an Austin, Texas-area Rotary Club luncheon. "We're a military at war, not an entire country," the newly promoted Marine major said vehemently, in the confines of a classroom at the USMC Command and Staff College at Quantico, Va. "You know what the problem is, Col. Bay. We're here at war, and the rest of the country is on its butt," the operations sergeant said to me. Let's review the timeline. The lieutenant colonel said that to me in spring 2006. The Marine major said that to me the first week of May 2008. As for the ops sergeant, his blunt instrument of an observation hails from summer 2004, delivered in and around Baghdad and delivered often. (READ MORE)
Paul Weyrich: Farm Bill Billions - I was interviewing one of the most liberal Democrats in the House of Representatives, Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), when suddenly he surprised me by saying, "I hope the President vetoes the farm bill and if he does I'll try to round up votes on my side of the aisle to sustain the veto." He went on to state that if the veto is sustained, "then we can start over and do it right." Indeed, the Heritage Foundation just issued a report entitled "Seven Reasons to Veto the Farm Bill." The author, Brian Riedl, points out that since the last farm bill was enacted in 2002 net farm income has more than doubled. Yet the new bill expands farm subsidies by some $25 billion. Moreover, the majority of these subsidies go to commercial farmers with an average income of $200,000 and a net worth of around $2 million. But the new bill continues the subsidies to multimillionaires and large agribusinesses. (READ MORE)
Karin Agness: One University Rebels Against Political Correctness - We are in the midst of graduation season. Commencement ceremonies are a time for celebrating the achievement of students. They are also a time for the bestowal of honorary degrees, which too often becomes one last chance for liberals to exercise their dominance of universities through the selection of conferees. The political nature of honorary degrees is not a new phenomenon. In 1985, Oxford University famously snubbed then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by refusing to award her an honorary degree. Academics and students campaigned against awarding her a degree in protest against the government cuts in education funding. This graduation season Washington University stands out as a sign of hope and rebellion against the traditional political correctness that dominates the selection process. (READ MORE)
Terry Paulson: End the Republican Pity Party, Give Us a Contract With America We Can Support! - The media pundits and many Republicans themselves have all but conceded the November election. They seem paralyzed like a deer in the headlights by the mid-term election setbacks, the unpopularity of President Bush and the recent special election losses. Some psychologists have termed the depression of our age learned helplessness-“There’s nothing I can do that will make any difference in what will happen to me, so I might as well wait until they do it to me!“ Some Republicans are settling for an early pity party and hoping that the Democrats will falter and hand the GOP a November happy accident! John McCain may not be many conservatives’ favorite candidate, but he’s putting the rest of the party to shame by running an aggressive campaign trying to sell himself and his agenda to independents and core conservatives alike. (READ MORE)
The Belmont Club: Scanner - If terrorism is a meme, then one of the strategies against it has been exemplified by Joe Lieberman's efforts. Senator Lieberman has asked Youtube to remove al-Qaeda videos posted on its site. Google, which owns Youtube, has responded by removing what it deemed the most offensive of the videos. Lieberman said that: “if you search on YouTube for related videos, it will ‘return dozens of videos branded with an icon or logo identifying the videos as the work of one of these Islamist terrorist organizations.’ ‘Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training – activities that are all essential to terrorist activity,’” (READ MORE)
Big Dog: Senate Fails to Control Spending - The Senate has added projects worth millions of dollars to the war funding bill. The items added are not related to the war with the exception of a GI Bill which had earlier been reported to involve a 1% surcharge on people making more than half a million dollars a year. While adding items to bills is a legal procedure doing it in this fashion continues to be unethical and underhanded at best. The Senate has added million of dollars for urban schools (as if education does not waste enough money, millions for immigrants to work in agriculture, millions for levee repair in Louisiana (have we not wasted enough money there yet), millions to track down child predators and millions to fight western wildfires. None of these items have anything to do with the war and this process is just a way for Senators to get items through without going through the proper process and without legislative oversight. (READ MORE)
COB6 @ Blackfive: More Congressional "Supporting the Troops" - This morning Fox News reported that if the war funding supplemental is not approved before Congress takes another undeserved vacation, military pay could be effected as early as mid-June. That made me wonder just what the hell this corrupt gang of free-thinking thieves have been doing in their unending quest to "Support the Troops". Fortunately, Pete Hegseth at National Review did it for me. HR 1147: Congratulating the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball team - HR 305: Recognizing the importance of bicycling - HR 1144: Expressing support for a "Frank Sinatra Day" - HR 1152: Honoring Arnold Palmer - HR 1074: Honoring the anniversary of the Crazy Horse Memorial - I realize that Democrats are running the show in Congress but this is clearly bi-partisan ass-hattery. (READ MORE)
Confederate Yankee: But They Support the Troops - Michael Yon emailed early this morning to warn me American soldiers are being given a travel warning by the federal government. The sad part? It isn't overseas, but related to what are now only verbal assaults on the Washington, D.C. metro. “Recently, there have been local incidents in which military personnel have been verbally assaulted while commuting on the Metro. Uniformed members have been approached by individuals expressing themselves as anti-government, shouting anti-war sentiments, and using racial slurs against minorities.” It sounds like we've got a few disciples of the William Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn wing of the Democrat Party still active. (READ MORE)
Crazy Politico: Time For A Carbon Tax? - Vox Pop (a Chicago Tribune blog) has an article up claiming it's time for a carbon tax in the US to reduce global warming, and discourage the use of carbon based fuels, and help ease oil consumption. First, the writer ignores (nearly completely) the fact that any carbon tax will be passed on to consumers. Wake up, that's how it works, it becomes a "cost" and prices are adjusted to deal with it. The other problems are three fold, as we've seen lately more scientific groups are questioning the underlying premises of global warming. Secondly, we have no coherent energy policy in place to reduce carbon based fuels use. Finally, we are no longer the driving force behind energy prices going up. Former third world countries like China and India are driving up the price of oil as their consumption grows. (READ MORE)
The Foxhole: Who’s Side is the State Department on? - Our own State Department allows terrorists to come into this country under the guise of the “Institute for Islamic Thought” (IIIT) Just a few of the culprits named in a recent article by Patrick Poole: “Matthew Levitt, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis for the Department of the Treasury testified before the U.S. Senate in August 2002 that IIIT employee Tarik Hamdi personally hand-delivered cell phone batteries to Osama bin Laden for the phone that federal prosecutors described as ‘the phone bin Laden and others will use to carry out their war against the United States,’ specifically the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.” (READ MORE)
Don Surber: Mollohan - The EPA wants its $3.2 million back from his earmarks to his Canaan Valley Institute. Auditors cannot find documentation for how nearly half the $6.7 million that Democratic Congressman Alan Mollohan funneled to the Canaan Valley Institute, Ken Ward Jr. of the Gazette reported. “It doesn’t mean there was a $3 million embezzlement going on,” said Eileen McMahon, a spokeswoman for the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency. “It may just be a paperwork problem.” “Paperwork problem,” eh? Isn’t paperwork what the government runs on? Mollohan is still under investigation by the FBI and he spent more than his annual salary last year on lawyers who specialize in white collar crime. $220,000 in the first 9 months of 2007 to be exact. (READ MORE)
Baron Bodissey: Media Crew Assaulted at Muslim Charter School - A reader sent us an email this morning about an Islamic charter school in Minnesota: “A violent incident that yesterday at the Tarik ibn Ziyad Academy in Fridley, Minnesota, where Muslim school officials physically assaulted a local camera crew that was at a public school that is supported with public funds, while that crew reported on matters of a very public nature and interest. The reporters who were physically assaulted were from KSTP Channel 5 in Minneapolis. Their report and video can be found here.” The original issue about the Academy — which shares premises with a mosque — is that Friday prayers were being conducted under official school auspices, and that schoolbuses to take children home weren’t available until after post-school religious instruction was finished. This latter practice, for all practical purposes, made instruction in Islam mandatory in a public school financed by the taxpayers of Minnesota. (READ MORE)
GayPatriotWest: Oregon/Kentucky results show Dem Unease with Obama - Watching Hillary Clinton declare victory tonight in Oregon, I was struck by how stilted she looked, as if she were happy by the margin of her victory, but resented having to give a speech declaring as much. Gone was the gloat that seemed to accompany similar addresses. It was clear she was reading from a text. Obama, as I sort of noted before, had almost the opposite problem, he spoke with great fluency. Maybe he was reading from a prepared text, but he made it seem he was talking off the cuff. But, still the content seemed banal, as if he were merely repeating his talking points. At times, he did seem delighted with his own ability to come up with a clever turn of phrase on the stump to add some spice to his his speech. He also came across as angry, as if he were somehow unhappy with the evening’s results. (READ MORE)
Ed Morrissey: Burma: We’d rather let people die than allow the US Navy to help - And the military junta in Myanmar will surely get that wish. With the death toll predicted to reach well into six figures, the US had dispatched the Navy to deliver badly-needed relief supplies to the cyclone-stricken country. However, despite allowing American C-130s to deliver cargo elsewhere, the junta refuses to permit the US Navy to help save lives: “U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Burma to focus on saving lives, not on politics, after the military government on Wednesday shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone survivors.” (READ MORE)
Jules Crittenden: Party Struggle - It’s a party apparently having a hard time figuring out what it is about, which is how the sideshow ended up being the main event. That would be the battle of gender vs. race. More of the usual “Clinton out now!” this morning. We’ll get to that in a minute. First, NYT sums up why, politically, it makes sense for her to stay and touches on that sexism thing everyone has been overlooking in their rush to condemn pervasive American racism or anti-Obamism or whatever it is. “Rebuffing associates who have suggested that she end her candidacy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has made it clear to her camp in recent days that she will stay in the race until June because she believes she can still be the nominee — and, barring that, so she can depart with some final goals accomplished.” (READ MORE)
neo-neocon: Obama’s ignorance: this is getting scary - I used to think it might be a good thing for Obama to continue to make egregious errors. It would allow people to see his feet of clay and to understand the dangers of his naive and uninformed views. But, as he’s made goof after goof and none of his myriad supporters—including his enablers in the MSM—seem to notice or care, it’s become more frightening. Now I’m hoping he smartens up, but fast—especially if he wins the election. So I’m offering the following in the spirit of helpfulness—sort of. First, the statement in question, made at a speech Sunday in Pendleton, Oregon: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela—these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, ‘We’re going to wipe you off the planet.’” Let’s see; where to begin? How about size: (READ MORE)
Neptunus Lex: Learning from Berkeley - Former Harvard president Larry Summers was chased into the wilderness for the crime of noting that there were fewer undergraduates of the fairer sex pursuing math and science careers than their representation in the general population might otherwise suggest, and wondering aloud whether it might be worth looking into. But this impertinent asking of incorrect questions was not the scholar’s only heresy: He also went to a ROTC commissioning ceremony for several of his students. And actually spoke: “We as a nation are strong because we are free, because we are a nation that permits, nurtures, and encourages wonderful communities like this one where anything can be said and any article can be made, whenever it is a commitment to the pursuit of truth. Our strength as a nation rests upon our freedom. But I would say equally to you - this is the point that must be understood but frankly is often misunderstood - that we are free because we are strong, and that freedom depends on our strength. All of us who cherish and pray for that freedom must also support those who contribute to the strength that maintains our freedom. There is much you can do and should argue about every aspect of our country’s policies but the idea that freedom depends on strength is one we should all be able to agree on.” (READ MORE)
Douglas V. Gibbs: What Is Appeasement? (Now that's a word that makes the left go nuts!) - The American Heritage College Dictionary on my desk defines "Appeasement" as: The Policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace. (Often at the expense of principal). Many Liberals are claiming that when Bush said in his appeasement speech, "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," he was referring directly to Barack Obama. Perhaps. I won't claim to know what was going on in the president's mind at the time. But references to Neville Chamberlain about his talks with Hitler, and the claim that ". . . we should negotiate with terrorists" is not appeasement by the above definition. (READ MORE)
Kim Zigfeld: Democratic Doings in KY and OR: Sexist Media? - I might be the very last person on the face of the Earth who would wish to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States. I don't even want her to get the nomination of her party, because I see her as being a more dangerous, mainstream candidate than Barack Obama. But that doesn't make me any less disgusted by the manner in which she is being treated by the American media. Last night, she obliterated Obama in the Democrat primary in the state of Kentucky in the same manner she had done in West Virgina last week, crushing the frontrunner 65-30. Yet, not only does the front page of the New York Times website this morning not report that fact, it carries a huge photograph of Barack Obama under a gigantic headline stating: "Obama Declares Bid Within Reach." You have to dig around in the paper's coverage to find out how badly Clinton whipped him in the bluegrass state. The fact that Obama could lose two states in a row this badly shows that his support is fundamentally hollow and fraudulent. (READ MORE)
John Hinderaker: The Real Bush Record - The Democrats were never able to beat George Bush when he was on the ballot, but they seem to think that the third time's a charm. To hear Barack Obama talk, you might think he is running against Bush. And the conventional wisdom is that Republican candidates will be well-served to stay as far away from the President as possible. Perhaps so; at this point, hardly anyone has any interest in defending the Bush record. The fact is, though, that the administration's record is a good one. Investors' Business Daily provides a useful review: “On the economy, there are indications the sun is coming out after a fairly mild economic storm. More data are showing a recession will be avoided, and it looks like a new bull market in stocks began in March after a short and shallow bear. ... For the resilience of this economy, we can thank the president. He pushed substantial tax cuts on income and investment through Congress, which were followed by four years of growth, generating over 8 million jobs. ...” (READ MORE)
Shrinkwrapped: The Price of Gas The "Wrong Direction" and a One Term Presidency - Most commentators believe that the high percentage who answer that the country is heading in the wrong direction on the right direction/wrong direction question in polls portend a Democratic rout in November. It is almost certain that the Democrats will expand their margin in the House and Senate and at the moment, the Presidential race is a toss-up. I would argue that the reason for the "wrong direction" answer is largely a result of a combination of events over which a President has little effect and includes the bursting of the housing bubble along with the rapid rise in gas and food prices and that the inflation in energy and food prices will not be addressed during the next President's term. As a result, the next President will likely be a single term President who will leave under a cloud and with the fundamental dislocations responsible for our current state of inflating energy prices (and to a much lesser extent, our food prices) unaddressed. (READ MORE)
Warner Todd Huston: Tenn. Declares Only Dumbest Kids Wanted for State Jobs - It’s true. The State of Tennessee has officially declared that from this point forward it will accept only less educated student applicants for state, county and city jobs in the Volunteer State. Why would the kindly folks in Nashville make such a stupid rule? Well, it’s all about control, you see. The state controls the less educated kids and they don’t control the ones that show higher academic aptitude. It really is just that simple. It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least where it concerns their eligibility to apply for the positions of fireman, police officer, state government employee, even daycare worker — any government job or government controlled position that the state regulates is covered. (READ MORE)
DJ Drummond: Ted Kennedy and Hope - I was dismayed to hear about Senator Kennedy's brain tumor, not least because the consensus seems to be that there is no hope for his survival. Speaking as someone told by his oncologist to prepare for death not so very long ago, I say to the Senator the following: Do not, sir, give up this fight or yield even an ounce of your energy to despair or worry. If the enemy is fell and fearsome, do not forget that you yet have hope and avenues to pursue. I am no expert on tumors, nor of the sort of cancer which caused Senator Kennedy's condition. But I do know that research proceeds on all fronts, and there are possibilities today which were undreamed of just a decade ago. Just as my oncologist was unaware of new information and treatment options on Pseudomyxoma Peritonei when he considered my condition, so too there may be possibilities that Senator Kennedy's doctors have missed. (READ MORE)
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