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Delicious Ironies: Tea Party Groups and Tax Exemptions

Tea Party

New Orleans    You just have to love the irony of the government bashing, back-to-the-basics, tri-corner hat wearing Tea-people now lining up at the whining wall to weep about the fact that the Internal Revenue Service is not bending over backwards to give them tax exemptions by joining the pretend party that somehow their [...]

Adios, Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart

New Orleans   Andrew Breitbart’s career speaks loudly to the ongoing American phenomena of the winking carnie barker, P. T. Barnum huckster who always had something to sell and could find the suckers that would buy it.  Breitbart’s passionate mission to destroy “progressive institutions” was clearly stated and there were plenty of rubes in [...]

Daily Caller: Left-wing organizing kingpin: Tea partiers out-organized Occupy Wall Street

** Below is an article taken from The Daily Caller, a right wing news site & blog of an exclusive “interview” with Wade **

By Michael Volpe

10:56 PM 11/24/2011

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the [...]

Different Crop from the Same Dirt: Tea & Occupy

New Orleans   A column by Gerald Seib in the Wall Street Journal focusing on a recent WSJ/NBC poll was largely buried but should be inescapable for anyone trying to really understand what is happening in America today. In his words, “…a deeper look at those who sympathize with those two movements – one largely of [...]

Tea Party, Occupy, Movements and Organizations

Kingston I love reading about the pinch in the shoes of the Tea-people as they try to scurry about and disclaim similarities to the Occupy forces that are springing up everywhere around the USA and the world.  The cultural complaints are the most absurd, since that is mostly the differences in the ages of the [...]

Stephen Lerner, the Banks, and the Right-wing Scare Machine

New Orleans      The right blogosphere and websites were all heavy breathing about another “secret” tape claiming longtime SEIU organizer and strategist, Stephen Lerner, was an “economic terrorist” advocating that the masses should bring the banks and Wall Street to its knees.  At one level it is hard to suppress a yawn.  Anger [...]