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Tea Party

Editorial: Twilight of the Establishment

Tuesday’s election cycle is boding well not merely for the Republican Party in battering the Democrats, but for a good cleasing within the walls of the GOP halls itself. It’s about time. I’m no fan of Rand Paul, but if people are angry enough to vote for anti-establishment candidates, this could force a change of [...]

Defending Glenn Beck

David Solway of Pajamas Media pecks out a fair apologia for TV host Glenn Beck. Though I don’t agree with everything Beck says, his detractors look like lunatics when they barrage him with insults, and lose any credibility they may have had if they would have stuck to a fair argument against the man.

Arizona faces tougher sanctions than Iran

Mark Steyn muses on the misguided among our fellow citizens who always seem to root for the bad guy rather than for the victim.  The left is truly filled with sick people. Blogged with the Flock Browser

A Real Peace Movement

Unlike the more disgusting elements of the radical left, the Tea Party members actually know how to do a protest and be civil about it, fringe creep infiltrators notwithstanding. James Taranto comments on the civility of Tea Party rallies here, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.

‘Populism of the Privileged’

The insults against the Tea Party get stupider and stupider. James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal explains here.

WaPo Ignores Tea Parties, Astroturfs the ‘Coffee Parties’ — World Amazed

Coffee Parties. Seriously?! 15 people and they act like a revolution is brewing (pardon the pun)? The Tea Party is an actual grass-roots movement with normal people preparing to tackle an obnoxious government. A gaggle of liberals pretending to mount a movement to support their messiah isn’t. It’s a coffee clatch and nothing more. Big [...]