*Mary Jo Kophechne

July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969

Requiescat in pace.

“At the age of 38, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile off a bridge into a pond.  He escaped the car, leaving 26-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne trapped inside under seven feet of water.  I would guess he was drunk; I would guess she was his adulterous date for the day.  He denied both accusations.

What was undeniable was that  he waited ten hours to report the incident – all the long night.  Even the next morning, he was seen chatting casually with an acquaintance at his hotel.  There is evidence to suggest that Miss Kopechne was alive in the car for quite  some time after the accident, breathing the last of the air caught inside.” Andrew Klavan.

RELATED: Ted Kennedy in 1978: “The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition.  They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations.”

(H/T Steven Hayward)

RELATED II: Pimping Ted Kennedy’s Corpse, by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom. 

RELATED III: Kennedy, Unsentimentally, at NRO.

“His brother, President Kennedy, became a national icon because his untimely death invited the question of what he might have been. Senator Kennedy, much longer lived, also invites the question of what he might have been. Driven to do good, he could not, because he was hostage to his own defects, personal and ideological. His best impulses deserve to survive him; his worst ideas and legislative agenda do not. RIP Edward M. Kennedy, 1932–2009: May he encounter the divine mercy that both the greatest and the least of us will require at the end.”

*What We Are Not Embarrassed By, By Will Wilkinson.

“Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.

The most powerful way to argue the affirmative is to compare the number of human beings murdered by the devotees of each. That line of attack ought to be decisive, but I’m afraid it won’t get you far with the multitude of highly-self-regarded thinkers influenced by Karl Marx.”

*Crisis Management: Americans are being led back to a pre 9/11 landscape, by Clifford May.

*Obama’s Health Rationer-In-Chief, by Betsy McCaughey

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