Coming From Inside The House
So, as we know, America hates the Tea Party. Will the media let them know that the Tea Party has successfully taken over the GOP? Are we witnessing the end of the Tea Party’s electoral rebellion? Did...
View ArticleThere’s nothing to shoot here
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, right? Think a person would have an easier time killing five people with a knife or with an AK-47? These questions and more will not be answered as we take...
View ArticleInside The Minds Of The Tea Party
Summary of a recent study from UMass: Results indicated that at a conscious level, White and non-White ethnic groups were held to the same standard and construed as significantly less American when...
View ArticleMeet The New Boss
In the comments to yesterday’s post, and earlier, we’ve talked a good amount about whether Rick Perry can be considered the GOP front-runner. Fareed Zakaria is coming around to the idea: I get the...
View ArticleThe Right Of The People To Eat Ho-hos And Ride Medicare-Funded Scooters,...
Very thoughtful point from David Frum: What you are hearing here is the secret of the Tea Party. Americans do not clearly distinguish in their minds between “rights” in the James Madison sense and what...
View ArticleA Man Who Will Fight For Your Honor
Salon’s Justin Elliott read Rick Perry’s previous book, On My Honor: “Student campus unrest, rejection of authority, the ‘self-esteem’ movement, moral relativism, and the demands of secularists all...
View ArticleThe Orange Man’s Chickens Coming Home To Roost
According to the Tea/Republican Party’s talking points about governance, everything this gentleman says is 100% correct: Who is David Lewis and what is he doing giving House Speaker John Boehner a...
View ArticleBirth Of A Tea Party
From the New York Times, October 14, 2008: MOBILE, Ala. — The McCain campaign’s depiction of Barack Obamaas a mysterious “other” with an impenetrable background may not be resonating in the national...
View ArticleFreedom’s Just Another Word For Peeing in a Cup
The Tea Party promised freedom from government but it hasn’t exactly delivered on its promise. Tea Party favorite Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, wanted to require all welfare recipients in the state...
View ArticleThose “independent” tea partiers
Via DEDC, I went through some poll numbers for our Washington State election. There’s a couple issues where you expect to see libertarians voting with the democrats, in particular gay marriage and...
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