Set aside for the moment the burgeoning story none of the TV news networks or prestige daily newspapers will mention, regarding Senator Kerry's reputed zipper problem. His wife Teresa is a pretty interesting phenomenon on her own, regardless.

Front Page Magazine this morning presents a fascinating account of the web of charitable organizations, some of them explicitly set—up to enable wealthy leftists to launder out their own names when funding radical left wing causes, which have been funded by the foundation chaired by Mrs. Kerry.

If you take the time to draw a series of circles representing the various groups, and connect them, with lines representing money flows, you get a picture of the network we can readily entitle the 'vast left wing conspiracy.'

Mark Fabiani spent a lot of taxpayer dollars creating a similar approach to the funds flowing from Richard Mellon Scaife to conservative groups. Except, of course, that the dollar amounts were much smaller, and the groups less numerous and more open about their operations.

This network, along with the entire history of donations of foundations under the control of Mrs. Kerry, deserves close investigation.

The American Thinker thinks that Mrs. Kerry is a very interesting lady, indeed. All of a sudden, she is out of the country, and unable to be interviewed about the rumors swirling about her husband.

Here are some things we'd like to know about her:

—Why was her father named Thierstadt, yet is identified as a 'Portuguese' physician, residing in the brutal colony of Mozambique? Where was her father born? How did he end up as a Portuguese citizen residing in Africa?

—How many times has she been married? To whom? Tell us about her ex—husbands.

—Why did she choose to attend the University of Witwatersrand in apartheid—era South Africa?

That's just for starters.

Posted by Thomas   02 13 04