Entries from October 2007

October 27, 2007

Kennedy Cousin Loses Bid For New Trial

NO NEW TRIAL FOR SKAKEL IN MOXLEY MURDER CASE 
Almost 32 years to the day after the murder of Martha Moxley, a Superior Court judge has denied Michael Skakel’s appeal for a new trial.
In his ruling Thursday at Superior Court in Stamford, Judge Edward R. Karazin Jr. ruled that there was “no truly new or credible evidence” [...]

October 25, 2007

Snoozing While Rome Burns

PHOTO CAPTION: Vice President Dick Cheney, minutes before cameras caught him nodding off at a cabinet meeting. (Come to think of it, he *does* look pretty woozy here.) President Bush called the emergency meeting Wednesday regarding the federal government’s response to wildfire devastation in California. Reuters photo.
WHILE WASHINGTON SLEPT
So I’m glued to CNN’s coverage of the [...]

October 24, 2007

Kennedy Warns of Pollution Dangers From Poultry Farms

RFK JR. ORGANIZES POULTRY SUMMIT
The Waterkeeper Alliance, an international environmental group co-founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is organizing an “Eastern Shore Poultry Summit” Nov. 1 at the Wicomico Civic Center in Salisbury, MD, the Baltimore Sun reported today.
The point of the event is to raise awareness of water pollution that runs off large poultry farms, [...]

October 22, 2007

RFK Jr. Protested by Cape Windbags at MA Event

BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS: FOR KENNEDY, IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN 
 
(PHOTO CAPTION: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in New Bedford, MA on Oct. 18)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was back in ”Kennedy Country” Thursday to speak at a Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change kick-off event in New Bedford, Massachusetts. But his old home week welcome was not [...]

October 21, 2007

Kennedy Visits Clinton Country

RFK JR. IN ARKANSAS
In light of his recent endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy and rumors that he may be a contender for her Senate seat if vacated, the timing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the heart of “Clinton Country” in Arkansas this week doesn’t seem entirely accidental.
RFK Jr. appeared at tonight’s Slate 60 [...]

October 18, 2007

Another Air America Affiliate Bites The Dust

 
KOKE-AM to Air America Radio: “Adios, Amigo!”
Here in the progressive, hip, liberal blue-city-in-a-red-state mecca of Austin, TX, another Air America affiliate has apparently bought the farm. KOKE-AM 1600 is no longer.
Austinites will now have to tune to XM Satellite radio channel 167 to get their weekly dose of “Ring of Fire,” the Air America show [...]

October 14, 2007

RFK Jr. Talks About Gore; Endorses Hillary, on ABC

 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Saturday to talk about this week’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC. The discussion began with some observations on the draft Gore movement; RFK Jr. urged people to respect Gore’s choice not to run and said that we will have [...]

October 11, 2007

RFK Jr. Cancels Keynote Speech; Tied Up In Court

When an international conference on sea-dumped munitions starts this week in Halifax, the acclaimed keynote speaker that was to address the crowd will not be present, says the conference organizer.
According to the Nova Scotia Business Journal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was to speak today at the First International Conference of Chemical and Conventional Munitions [...]

October 8, 2007

Kennedy Supports Clinton for President

 KENNEDY: I’M FOR HILLARY
On his weekly Air America radio show this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told listeners that Hillary Clinton is the candidate he is currently supporting for president.
While this news may come as a shock to many of his progressive supporters who strongly disagree with Hillary’s policies, it is important to bear in [...]

October 5, 2007

Will RFK Jr. Run?

We have recieved word from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as to what his plans will be for 2008. We know this is the news you’ve all been waiting for, and we’d like to tell you his answer right this minute, but…
Since the correspondence was informal in nature, it cannot be considered in any sense an [...]