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What will it take for the media to acknowledge that the Tea Party is not a racist movement, and that liberals have smeared it as such in a naked politicization of race relations? How about a lefty activist admitting just that. UPenn professor Mary Frances Berry, a leader of the "far-left black political scene," as NB Executive Editor Matt Sheffield wrote,  penned this astonishing email to Politico, published on July 20: Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any...

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking a pass on the House Tea Party Caucus. The second-ranking House Republican told POLITICO on Tuesday that he's not joining the group started by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) because he sees it as more of an organic, grass-roots movement rather than a Washington entity. Cantor praised Bachmann for providing “another avenue for people to have their voices heard" but said he thinks the tea party is better left outside Washington. “I met with several of groups that operated under that moniker in Virginia; they’re not all uniform,” Cantor said in his third-floor...

Why does your freedom matter to you? This may seem like a silly question, with self-evident answers. But part of the reason why freedom continues to be eroded in America is that for many people, it is something that is abstract, unseen, and is taken very much for granted... even while it slips away. In a struggle between the more tangible and the less tangible, the tangible has the distinct advantage. If we want to turn the tide and begin to increase freedom in America, we need to make our freedom, and what it means to each of us individually,...

Homeland Security: President Obama promised lobbyists wouldn't run his White House. They're just doing it from across the street — at a Shariah-compliant coffee chain tied to a radical jihadist group. That's right: According to the New York Times, prominent K Street lobbyists are buttonholing Obama officials at a Caribou Coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, raising far more than just ethics questions. What the Times story neglects to mention is that Caribou Coffee is a Shariah-compliant firm owned by an Islamic bank based in Bahrain. One of its founders and a current adviser are leaders in the radical Muslim Brotherhood....

NEW YORK, July 3 (UPI) -- A New York woman is suing Starbucks, saying her baby son was seriously injured when she dropped a cup of overly hot tea on him. In a complaint filed Friday in Kings County, Villona Maryash said the scalding took place in a Starbucks in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn in October, the New York Post reported. She said her son, Arnold Glouchko, who was 5 months old at the time, was in his stroller when she picked up the tea and then dropped it because it was so hot.

Who agrees and who disagrees with Dr. Paul? I would like to see income tax abolished (it is socialism light) but what say other Freepers? Watch the video of course.

Pop-star and courageous anti-toilet-paper crusader Sheryl Crow apparently has a new political concern: Tea Partiers. The country crooner told CBS journalist Katie Couric that Tea Party members are uneducated, angry and potentially dangerous in an interview with Glamour magazine this June. After Crow complained in the interview that Americans have become too blasé about politics, and that nobody has taken to the streets to cause "a riot or a revolution," Couric correctly pointed to the Tea Party as an example of modern day activism.

Newsweek blogger Ben Adler thinks the national media are giving the Tea Parties gentle treatment. "Unfortunately," Adler wrote in a June 21 post, "what appear to be false notions of objectivity - or perhaps a lack of interest in policy - is preventing that coverage from illuminating what the movement actually represents and what it would do if empowered." Adler complained that a recent Associated Press article, "Enraged to Engaged: Tea partiers explain why," failed to examine the ideology of the demonstrators in the grassroots conservative movement. "The piece examines how and why a variety of individuals became involved in...

Nothing sets the chattering class to chattering quite like that exotic and excitable clan, the Tea Party. Dismissed by turns as faux rabble-rousers and dangerous lunatics, this strange species of tax-loathing citizens continues to baffle and infuriate the national media and political elite -- left and right. Some evidence has recently emerged to warm the hearts of those who would like to see the Tea Party fade into irrelevancy. A June Washington Post/ABC News poll, for example, shows popular support for the Tea Party, if not collapsing, then certainly taking a hit, with 50 percent reporting an "unfavorable" view of...

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To all SW Nebraska TEA Party activists: Good evening! Folks, we are making great progress organizing the Southwest Nebraska TEA Party (SWNETP)We now have a website! Southwest Nebraska Tea Party: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Group/Tea_Party_Patriots_SW_Nebraska Please sign up and get involved! Suggested symbol: "TEA Huskers" Big Red dressed as a Minuteman! We plan to network with fellow husker patriots across Nebraska. There is much to do, and I look forward to working with as many of you as is possible. An account will be established for donations from SWNETP funding efforts. These monies will be used to cover the costs of printing fliers and...

Obama ignores the fact that his Administration failed in their oversight duties of BP!Day 54!In a Politico interview Friday, Obama blamed members of congress "who will not be named" that might have resisted calls for stronger regulation of oil companies. Not that Obama had any intention of introducing stronger regulations. This is another pathetic attempt by Obama to place blame for his failures and those of his Administration. Obama also blamed the Tea Partiers. Redstate has the full story, but here's the essential quote: “Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same...

SAN DIEGO — Police are investigating the vandalism of a car that displayed support for Arizona’s controversial new immigration law and the Tea Party movement. The damage was reported Thursday in front of a home on Hispano Drive in Rancho Bernardo , said San Diego police Capt. Terry McManus. The vandal coated the back of the white Subaru with red spray paint and posted a written note with duct tape that criticizes support for former President George W. Bush and states: “No more killing for oil,” according to photos. There is no suspect information. The vandalism caused an estimated $1,100...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Boston-based radio talk-show host Michael Graham is a conservative with a sense of humor. That comes through loud and clear in the first chapter, titled “My Mother, the Terrorist.” Now, Graham’s mother, Patricia Graham, a “happy homemaker” from Columbia, S.C. is not really “hate-mongering radical” or a “terrorist,” but she is viewed as one for simply attending a Tea Party. Graham goes on, over the course of 244 pages, to show how the Obama-loving Left (Graham calls them O-bots) embraces a sort of Orwellian “doublethink” when disagreeing with those who don’t share their radical worldview. To the...

Times are tough, especially among those still looking for good jobs, but Sen. John Kerry doesn't think Washington's to blame. In fact the former Democratic presidential candidate, concerned with the anger voters are aiming at Washington, says that his party and President Obama are doing a ship-shape job. [See which industries contribute to Kerry's campaign.]

After higher ups in the Bucks County GOP prevented tea party members by court order from handing out campaign literature during last week's primary election, what will their commitment be to Mike Fitzpatrick's run for Congress? Tea party leaders spoke out in no uncertain terms about their distaste for the treatment they received from the party establishment and are calling on Fitzpatrick to mend fences. If not, they say, come the Nov. 2 General Election, those enthusiastic supporters who helped elect the likes of Rand Paul in Kentucky, Chris Christie in New Jersey and Scott Brown in Massachusetts, might elect...

This isn't even AstroTurf. It is outright political fraud. Fearful of the tea party movement in Michigan (which Democrats and Republicans alike should be), the Democrats and/or their special interest groups have begun the process of officially hijacking the movement. Like in Nevada, they will likely launch their own 'tea party' candidate that is anything but. Unfortunately for the Democrats, 1) the tea party is more informed than they give us credit for; and 2) this news is breaking at the very conception of this slimy political move. The news was broken last night by Chetley Zarko on his website...

Nevada --(AmmoLand.com)- In just one month, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle has surged twenty points in the polls in her bid to take on Nevada Senator Harry Reid in November. According to a May 10-11 joint poll released by the Las Vegas Review Journal and Mason Dixon, Angle now leads anti-gunner Danny Tarkanian by three points, and is closing in fast on the other leading candidate, Sue Lowden. Sharron Angle is strongly supported by Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund, earning an “A” rating from GOA for her unwavering work defending the Second Amendment during her eight years...

If we look at the 2008 General Election and break down the voters by racial demographics, one fact becomes instantly clear: As a group defined by race, an overwhelming percentage of blacks voted for Obama. More than 90% of all blacks cast their votes for Obama, apparently for purely racial reasons. It would be a convenient argument to claim that they were swayed by Obama’s impressive track record, or shining list of accomplishments but for one small glitch… he didn’t have any. There was no compelling substantive reason for anyone to vote for Barack Obama on his merits, because he...

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Both Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist appeared live on Friday's Today show, and both received the same question by NBC's Meredith Vieira, was Crist's departure from the GOP just another example of the Republicans being "intolerant" to moderates? In addition to advancing that liberal view of the Florida Senate race, Vieira also questioned if Rubio was being "manipulated" by the Tea Party, as seen in the following exchange:

The Mid South TEA Party Contact: jtomasik@midsouthteaparty.org Phone: 901-827-0120 Is a Congressional Campaign Being Funded With Your Tax Dollars? Earlier this year Stephen Fincher, a Republican candidate vying for John Tanner’s seat in the eighth Congressional District, caused quite a stir by raising over $300,000 in campaign contributions in just a few weeks.... However, a closer look at the source of his campaign funding reveals that Mr. Fincher, along with his supporters, might be part of the problem rather than a possible solution. Over 90 percent of Fincher's campaign funding came from farming families that have been recipients to almost...

U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo and state Rep. Raul Labrador are the only major candidates among a field of 17 for federal office in Idaho to reply to the Tea Party Boise candidate survey. Notable for their absence are incumbent Reps. Walt Minnick and Mike Simpson and Labrador's principal opponent in the 1st District GOP race, Vaughn Ward. Minnick, a 1st District Democrat, “opted out” of the survey, meaning he replied to the request on time but declined to complete the survey in full, as Tea Party Boise required. Read more: http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/04/29/idahopolitics/minnick_simpson_ward_skip_tea_party_boises_candidate_survey#ixzz0mVtmZyWP

It's doesn't fit the narrative coming from FoxNews where Tea Party rallies are the top story in politics this year, but Log Cabin Republicans have shown new influence in Utah politics in ways never seen before. At a recent debate, the organization hosted six of eight Republican senate candidates--or their representatives--including incumbent Bob Bennett, an impressive feat for a Utah organization that focuses on queer issues. To avoid overestimating their impact, however, note that the organization will not issue a formal endorsement of any candidate for fear that it would hurt rather than help the endorsed candidate. Nevertheless, 2010 may...

Riot Police Called Out Against Senior Citizen Tea Party 84rules April 29, 2010