Good morning to you on this Wednesday. There will be more for the blog later, but this deserves a post all it's own.

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy died last night.

So little is known in the outside world about what really goes on in the halls of Congress, but Kennedy was a king from a family of kings.

Other coverage includes:

Speech excerpts

The Wall Street Journal

A timeline of his life.

Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)