Recently, a ‘talking point’ has been circulating throughout the conservative talk show circuit. The talking point is that ‘racist Whites started gun control to use against free Negroes.’ Now this talking point has circulated to the Internet, and one group which posted this surprised me. The group was ‘I am the Tea Party,’ which...
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Author and political activist Alan Caruba has a new article entitled ‘Would States Secede to Protect Their Citizens?‘ that is being carried on the Tea Party Nation website. Caruba has been with various conservative Washington, DC think-tanks. In his latest piece he considers the possibility, which he says is ‘likely,’ of the US dollar...
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As reported in recent weeks here on SNN, the revolt against Republican leader John Boehner appears to be gaining momentum. Indeed, many Tea Party types are fed up with the GOP elites who continually sell out the rank-and-file conservative voters who support the party. Perhaps this has contributed to the fact that a quarter of Republicans...
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We have at least one indication that some of the Tea Party folks have had enough of the Republican elites. In recent weeks Republican leaders have come out in favour of amnesty for the many millions of illegal aliens in the United States. Speaker of the House John Boehner also kicked four conservatives off...
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Morgan Freeman is the latest well known person to condemn the Tea Party in particular and opposition to Obama in general as “racist.” Don’t look for Morgan Freeman at any Tea Party events anytime soon. Unless he’s there to protest them. The “Invictus” star condemns the Tea Party political movement as “a racist thing”...
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The Cato Institute is running an article by Daniel J Mitchell, a senior fellow at the institute, about the crisis the United States faces and who wins and loses from the recent debt deal. Predictably, the people are thrown under the bus by the politicos. America is on a path to becoming a Greek-style...
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Salon.com is running an article by turn-coat Texan Michael Lind which traces the South’s historic political opposition to Yankee politics of expanding the size and power of the central government. What is meant as an exposé ends up repeatedly pointing out ethnic, cultural and political aspects of the Southern people and contrasting them to...
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Conservative radio host and columnist Jack Hunter (“the Southern Avenger”) has an article for The American Conservative Magazine about the (mis-named) Patriot Act and why the GOP Establishment remains supportive of the Big Government measure: If Americans needed another reminder of why the Democratic Party is absolutely worthless, they got it during last week’s...
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There is yet another example of Republican Party leaders attempting to co-opt the grassroots Tea Party, or at least use its name to give cover for their pro-Establishment agenda: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley may be using a tea party group she’s creating as political cover, tea party activists said Monday. Haley announced she was...
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Conservative constitutional law scholar Bruce Fein has a lot of criticism for the Congressional Tea Party when it comes to war-making and the pass they have given US President Obama in his war against Libya (and yes, despite what Robert Gates may say, when you invade and bomb a country you are most definitely...
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Scott Lazarowitz, who writes for LewRockwell.com, shares why the centralized state doesnt work, the atrocities such a state commits, and why decentralisation is best (Note: the article contains many links to other interesting articles): There have been several events in the news this past week that have distracted Americans from the more pressing issues...
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Though Tea Party supporters have often paraded around in costumes, draped themselves in the flag and at times sounded like revolutionaries, a new poll shows that the vast majority of them embrace Big Government entitlement programs. And while signs denouncing Obamacare as a socialist health care program typically abound at Tea Party rallies, Tea Partiers strongly...
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