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It’s Official! Michele Bachmann Announces Presidency Bid
Tea Party favorite, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) formally declared her intention to run for the US presidency in the 2012 elections.
Addressing a crowd in her home state of Iowa on Monday, Ms. Bachmann called herself a “bold choice” for the presidency, and pointed to her record as a tax lawyer and founder of a charter school.
Read MoreSpeaking in the town of Waterloo, Ms Bachmann said Americans should
Tea Party And GOP Fight Over Defense Spending
There is tension between the traditional conservative GOP and the anti-spending Tea Party over the role of defense spending. The New York Times reports:
Read MoreThose differences were on display Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where the traditional Republican who now leads the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Howard P. McKeon, fought back against proposed cuts in the Pentagon budget even as fledgling committee members supported by the Tea Party said
Having Michelle Bachmann Speak Is An Insult To Gabrielle Giffords
Michelle Bachman was quite tame in her Tea Party rebuttal, still it was an insult to the 6 people who died in Tuscon and the Congresswoman who was shot in the face to have her speak.
Two years ago Bachman called for Americans to be “armed and dangerous” on the issue of energy tax. She would later refer to “death panels” in Obama’s healthcare program and say
Read MoreThis cannot pass. What we have
Tenn. Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks
The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers:
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
Read MoreAs a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who
Black Republican Quits Arizona Post Due To Tea Party Threats
ARIZONA –Republic district chairman for district 20, Anthony Miller has quit his post due to threats from the Tea Party. The Arizona Republic reports:
Read MoreMiller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog posts by some local members with Tea Party ties made him worry
Tea Party Leader Calls NAACP “A Liberal Hate Group”
Judson Phillips, the leader of Tea Party Nation has called the NAACP a “liberal hate group” on his website. The Huffington Post Reports:
Read MoreJudson Phillips, head of Tea Party Nation, recently released his picks for 2010′s “top five liberal hate groups.” Among them is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a selection that is unlikely to smooth the rocky relationship that has developed between the two organizations
Tea Party’s Allen West Calls On Gov’t To “Censor News Agencies”
Florida — Rep.-elect Allen West (R-Fla.) may have proven himself a prime pupil for fellow Rep. Michele Bachmann’s forthcoming constitutional classes, when he recently displayed selective reverence for the Tea Party’s most sacred document by calling for American news outlets to be censored for running stories based on the recent WikiLeaks cable dump.
Here’s the transcript of what the soon-to-be congressman said on a conservative internet radio program last week,
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Americans, Your Country Isn’t So Great
(Newsone)– This is a commentary I was bound to write regardless of the outcome of the midterm election. I start by saying that your country is not so great, Americans. Any discussion of “what went wrong” must be prefaced with that statement. Harsh words, perhaps, but I do not utter them in haste. And we need to say it over and over again until we change it.
The United States is
Read MoreTea Partiers Allegedly Harass Black Student Voters in SC
Tea party activists in South Carolina are allegedly intimidating black college students and other black voters at the polls, according to the South Carolina Democratic Party. Early this morning, self-identified tea party activists showed up at a polling station near Benedict College in Columbia, “basically harassing students—telling people not to vote and generally making voters feel uncomfortable,” says Keiana Page, press secretary for
Read MoreRand Paul Supporters Who Assaulted Woman Identified
Mike Pezzano is one of the men who attacked a woman before a debate between Rand Paul and Jack Conway for Senator for Kentucky according to reports. An anonymous Tea Party member sent an email to blogger Lisa Graas identifying the man who slammed Lauren Valle, an activist for Repulicore, which was founded by MoveOn.org to expose Republican corporate hypocrisy as Pezzano.
Pezzano is originally from Toms River, New Jersey but lives
Read MoreNAACP Report Shows Tea Party Ties To White Supremacist Groups
The NAACP has released a report which shows the connections between the Tea Party and hate groups, anti-semites and white supremacist groups. Here is the introduction:
Read MoreThe result of this study contravenes many of the Tea Parties’ self-invented myths, particularly their supposedly sole concentration on budget deficits, taxes and the power of the federal government, Instead, this report found Tea Party ranks to be permeated with concerns about race and
The Unbearable Whiteness Of Anti-Intellectualism
Chris Rock had a joke about black anti-intellectualism that roughly went “those people are keeping it real. Yeah, real stupid!” One can’t help but think these days there is a creeping anti-intellectualism in some segments of white America.
Read MoreTea Party Group Receives $1 Million Anonymous Donation
A tea party group is $1 million richer thanks to an anonymous donor who wants his money to influence this year’s midterm elections.
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