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Robert Byrd

June 28, 2010 Sen Robert Byrd Succumbs To Howard Stern Show Vacation Curse Send by Lizzire Senator Robert Byrd, a 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, has died, but if you're a Howard Stern Show fan, you probably saw it coming. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 02, 2010 Robert Byrd Was An Exalted Cyclops In The Ku Klux Klan. Send by gwenny Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died Monday at 92. While he was most famous as a master of the Senate's obscure rules, Byrd wore many hats during his lifetime, including that of Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 02, 2010 Senate Gives Rare Honor To Legend Robert Byrd ? Reuters | JK ... Send by Top Stories - Google News Los Angeles TimesSenate gives rare honor to legend Robert ByrdReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators on Thursday saluted their late colleague Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klansman who reinvented himself as a champion of civil rights [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 02, 2010 'Glenn Beck': Setting The Record Straight On Senator Byrd Send by FOXNews President Obama is remembering Democrat Robert Byrd as a voice of principle and reason. Wow. He is being remembered now as a guy who just served in the [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 28, 2010 Robert Byrd | Mad Economics Send by MadSkillz Robert Byrd Continue To Full Story Source: http://nicholasjweaver.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/robert-byrd/ [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 02, 2010 Legislative Update XLII Posted by Hellen Popovich With the sad passing of Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history, the Democrats for now number 58 in the Senate (the Democratic governor of West Virginia will appoint someone in the near future, with a special election taking place in 2012, the same time as the next e [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 28, 2010 At The End, Byrd Spoke Truth To The Power Of Coal Posted by Hellen Popovich Robert C. Byrd This morning?s death of West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd prompts us to note that he ?ended his career by . . . questioning the state?s powerful coal industry,? as Greg Moore writes in The Charleston Gazette. I posted the following on The Arena on Politico this morning: As someone who [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 29, 2010 Sen. Robert Byrd, Considered. Posted by Hellen Popovich Today, U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) died at the age of 92 in Washington, D.C. This is a huge loss for the United States Senate. Even though he had not been able to attend very many hearings in past couple of years, the institutional knowledge that has been lost today is immense. He wrote five books [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 30, 2010 Robert Byrd, 1917-2010 Animal Blawg Send by David Robert Byrd was a United States Senator for 51 years. No one can be in the Senate for that long and leave an uncomplicated legacy. However, at least 2 things are very clear. One, Byrd was one of the most gifted orators this country has [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 02, 2010 Robert Byrd Memorials: West Virginia Public Viewing Held After ... Send by PostMan CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? They came by the thousands to pay their respects to U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, and they kept trickling in past midnight and into the early morning hours Friday to honor a statesman, a scholar and, above all, [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 01, 2010 Flippin? A Byrd At The Constitution Posted by Hellen Popovich I heard news reports that another porker, Robert Byrd, finally passed away a few days ago. You know the guy, the epitamy of politics, a man of principle ? like the time ol? Robert renounced his KKK membership when it became politically convenient to do so. In any case, over 50 years ago, poor West V [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 03, 2010 Robert Byrd: KKK Says Late Senator 'Wasn't A Klansman Long Enough ... Posted by Hellen Popovich In the wake of the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd, the Ku Klux Klan, an organization Byrd briefly belonged to, is coming to the defense of the West Virginia Democrat who served in the Senate for 51 years. The Daily Caller reports : As [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 30, 2010 Remembering Senator Robert Byrd At The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog Send by solari Navigating toward a financially intimate world - Who's your farmer? Who's your banker? Where's your money? [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 30, 2010 DotCommonweal Blog Archive Senator Robert Byrd's Legacy Send by Mollie Wilson O'Reilly Senator Robert Byrd (D?W.Va.), who died this morning at 92, was born before Commonweal existed. But the earliest mention I could find of Sen. Byrd in our pages was a brief item in a ?News and Views? roundup by John Deedy in the April 26 [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 28, 2010 Senator Robert Byrd In Serious Condition - The News Chronicle Send by Labelle Bitalac Senator Robert Byrd, the person who holds the record as the longest-serving member of the Congress, was hospitalized in a Washington-area hospital last week due to a serious illness. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 28, 2010 27 June, 2010 23:53 Posted by Hellen Popovich *sigh* robert byrd is seriously ill I?m sick of hearing about illness and death. i really am. Filed under: Uncategorized [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

June 28, 2010 Sen. Robert Byrd In Serious Condition ? USA Today | JK Technologies | Send by Top Stories - Google News Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress, was admitted to a Washington-area hospital last week and is considered "seriously ill," according to a statement released today by his office. Byrd, 92, was admitted to the hospital [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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