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So says the headline in The Guardian, but I’ve read the accompanying article three times, and I’m blowed if I can see where the headline comes from. The writer, Amanda Marcotte, says some disobliging things about the Tea Party (”they’re the most Bible-thumping-est part of the rightwing base as well as the most racist – these things tend to […]

by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-CA Federal spending has ballooned 28 percent during the Obama presidency, while the government has amassed more debt than it acquired from the first day of George Washington’s administration to the last day of George H. W. Bush’s. Our nation is racing toward a fiscal cliff. Yet, as Sen. Jim DeMint noted, instead of […]

By Ben Johnson In 2008, candidate Obama had some harsh words about President George W. Bush’s fiscal policy: The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up the […]

Sarah Palin’s political action committee has produced a two-minute video that is stirring up quite a buzz among political commentators. Whether the video, entitled “Iowa Passion,” actually proves that the former Alaska governor intends to enter the 2012 presidential contest or is instead just the latest installment in the ongoing “Palin plays the media like […]

An Israeli news columnist is scorching Barack Obama as possibly the worst U.S. president in history, calling him “a living and breathing nightmare.” Yigal Walt of Ynetnews says Obama “is solidifying his status as the worst president in American history. The leader who promised us a bright future of peace and fraternity is leading the American empire […]

We well remember candidate Barack Obama’s ’08 throngs laying in breathless wait for the “Lightworker” to appear and speak as “sort of like God” from his teleprompter on high. Now, with nearly everything this president has touched lying in shambles, a shrunken Obama whines from town to town, transported in a taxpayer-purchased bus that resembles […]

Stopped clocks are right twice a day, and Al Gore can be too, assuming you use a generous definition of “day” and “twice”… and “right”. Long after the media had shamefacedly retired the “Arab Spring” in the same closet where they keep the Mondale presidency and Grateful Dead memorabilia—Al Gore brought it out with impeccable […]

New rules designed to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants who keep to the law once they are here will supersede court orders, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith contends. Even when a judge has ordered an alien to leave the country, the government can overturn it, the Texas Republican said during a radio interview. […]

Sarah Palin has said she will make a decision on whether to run for President before October. Until the former Alaska governor formally reveals her intentions, her actions and words will be viewed differently by those inclined to think she is running and those who think she is a drama queen, a mere Tea Party […]

It’s certainly a political phenomenon, but is the Tea Party also a “Spiritual” movement? For the past two years, a number of media outlets have highlighted the intermingling of Christianity and Tea Party philosophy. Some have lamented the combination of the two, while others have sought to showcase how the Tea Party’s basic tenets align […]

  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained documents from the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that the Obama White House helped coordinate a multimillion dollar taxpayer-funded campaign to use Internet search engines such as Google and Yahoo to drive Web […]

Being a tea party member is no cup of tea. According to a recent New York Times/CBS survey, tea party members are less popular than atheists, Muslims, Republicans, Democrats, and 21 other groups. The movement has lost 20 percent of its supporters and gained 40 percent more opponents, according to the poll. Another NYT/CBS poll […]