John P Zinkand

Joseph P. Kennedy III, great-nephew of the late President John F Kennedy, is making a run for Congress.

Hating the Tea Party for being so insistent and single-minded about cutting spending is like hating a fire hall siren for calling attention to a potentially devastating blaze. And blaming the S&P downgrade on Tea Party-backed House Republicans makes about as much sense as blaming a raging fire on the 911 dispatcher. Worse than pointing fingers at the Tea Partiers, however, is when a government official demands that they be frozen out. Speaking on MSNBC the day S&P lowered its credit rating on US debt from AAA to AA+, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry called on the media to blackball the Tea Party and its message.

Referring to the U.S.'s new credit rating from Standard & Poor's, John Kerry (D-MA) was simply telling it like it is when he said on Meet the Press: I

WASHINGTON -- Minutes before House Speaker John Boehner delivered a prime-time address in which he framed his latest deficit-reduction deal as a silver bullet for the nation's economic uncertainty, reports surfaced that the plan being crafted by the Ohio Republican would potentially lead to a downgrading of the United State's AAA credit rating.

Although this may appear to be one cohesive structure, it's actually two separate houses designed by two different architects for two different owners. What they do share in common, besides a wall, is that they were both built in 1877.....

John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and the first chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, "died as a result of blunt force trauma after being assaulted," the Delaware medical examiner's office said Friday.

After John Kennedy was shot in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, Johnny Calvin Brewer was listening to the radio while working behind the cash register at Hardy's Shoe Store on West Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. At around 1:15 p.m., the radio broadcaster announced that another gunshot had been fired, this time at Officer J.D.Tippit, who had stopped a man who fit the assassin's description on West 10th Street, not far from Hardy's