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In recent months I have had a hard time determining where I fit into the whole political scheme of things.  I am a conservative, however, I don’t feel that I am or have been represented in Washington for a while.  I have occasionally voted a party line, but for the most part I have voted [...]

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Unless you were living under a rock, you must have heard about the Tea Party protests that took place across the country yesterday. Reading the coverage so far, though, I think that many are missing the significance of these events. The four most significant things I noticed were that A) this was a gathering of [...]

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Conservative blogger and twitter @kylesellers talks about the successes of the TEAparties and answers liberal liberal critics and takes on CNN for “shoddy, equally agenda-driven reporting”
Yesterday, CNN “reporter” and Obama administration apologist Susan Roesgen was harassed by mean, ignorant, right-wing extremists at a Tea Party.  Luckily, she was there to remind them that they are [...]

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In the end, it was a lot of sound and fury (primarily from Fox News and Pajamas Media) signifying … well, not much, really. To be honest, it was kind of disappointing. Around 30,000 to 40,000 Americans gathered for Tea Party Tax-Day protests in 40 odd locations around the country. In a nation of over [...]

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What a difference forty years makes. In 1969, it was the summer of Woodstock, and left-wing radicals were taking the street to protest corporate government, the military-industrial complex, and the stultifying effects of stolid capitalism. Behind them was a philosophy of radical deconstruction: that truth was an ideology propped up by the powerful, a collusion [...]

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I plan on being at the local TEAparty as a spectator just as I was at the February event. I don’t say they parties won’t be well attended, they will be because so many people are unemployed but I contend that they will fail at their mission for 5 simple reasons.

They don’t have a clear [...]

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I ask people on twitter who use the term “socialism” like it was a sexually communicated disease, what they understand the meaning to be. Many don’t reply or else come back with a snarky comment.  Even Sarah Palin did not have a good definition of socialism other than something the US doesn’t want.
So I’m going [...]

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TCOT and the American TEAparty organizers have created a list of reasons why you should be at their April 15th rallies. Once you read the list it boils down to whether you believe the rhetoric and exaggeration or not. Given the support Obama enjoys in the polls and the high number of people who think [...]

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After President Obama’s Press Conference this week, which some slammed by some on #tcot because it moved American Idol to Wednesday night if you can believe it, Republican representative from Wyoming (home of Dick Cheney) Cynthia Lummis  was quoted as saying
“Every small business in this country will be affected by the president’s budget,” Lummis said. [...]

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