Anti Government

Anti-Government Militia Leader Found Dead In Colo. Supermax

AP | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Supermax Prison, Montana Freemen, Leroy Schweitzer, Florence Colorado, Leroy Schweitzer Found Dead, Anti-Government, Denver News

FLORENCE, Colo. -- The former head of the Montana Freemen, an anti-government separatist group that held the FBI at bay for 81 days in 1996, has been ...

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As Poverty Rate Rises and Unemployment Persists, Americans Need a New "New Deal"

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Latinos, Infrastructure, Education, Congress, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Poverty, Unemployment Rate, President Obama, Tea Party, Job Creation, African Americans, Great Depression, Anti-Government, Republicans, New Deal, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

For many, big government is a four-letter word, but newly released poverty and income data signal the need to invest in large-scale programs and initiatives that have the potential to turn the country around.

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Chinese Artist Missing After Airport Detention

AP | By ISOLDA MORILLO | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Tate, Ai Weiwei Missing, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds, Lu Qing, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Artist, Tate Turbine Hall, Chinese Dissidents, Ai Weiwei, China, Anti-Government, Arts News

BEIJING -- One of China's most famous contemporary artists remained missing Monday, more than a day after he was blocked from leaving the country and ...

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Father-Son Bank Bombing Exposes Anti-Government 'Underworld'

AP | JEFF BARNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Timothy McVeigh, Bank Bombing, Bruce Turnidge, Barack Obama, Oklahoma City Bombing, Salem, Birther, Rural America, Gun Rights, Tea Party, Anti-Government, Joshua Turnidge, Oregon, Politics News

SALEM, Ore. — People who knew Bruce Turnidge and his son say they loved their guns, hated President Obama, and fantasized about starting a milit...

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The Ballad of the Tea Party Triumphant -- a Rhyming Rant

Jim Parry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Minimum Wage, Regulatory Agencies, Social Security, Tea Party, Anti-Government, Comedy News
Jim Parry

VERSE: In this year 2030, I'm proud that I dwell In the land of the free and the home of "To hell With the government's paws In our life!" No more la...

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Support Your Local Federal Worker

Max Stier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Workforce, Partnership for Public Service, Federal Government, Public Servants, Federal Employees, Public Service, Anti-Government, Haiti Earthquake, Politics News
Max Stier

This was originally published as an exclusive to AOL News. As attacks from makeshift roadside bombs wreaked havoc in Iraq and later in Afghanistan, T...

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Compassion

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Conservatives, Republicans, Corporate Responsibility, Wildlife-Habitat, Pledge to America, Regulation, Gop, Corporate Power, Pro-Market, Wildlife, Anti-Government, Green News
Edward Flattau

Being pro-free market and anti-big government, conservatives value money too much and regulation not enough, a blend culminating in Oscar Wilde's indictment of "knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing."

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Anti-Government Sentiment Stifling Push For New Regulations

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Tim Geithner, Regulation, Tea Party, Financial Regulation, Financial Stability Oversight Council, Anti-Government, New Regulations, Business News

WASHINGTON — Public distrust of government is limiting the push for tighter federal regulations even in the wake of regulatory lapses that contribut...

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Raymond Franklin Peake Killed Lawyer And Wanted Guns To Overthrow Government, Say Police

AP | By MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond Franklin Peake, Harrisburg, Anti Government, Todd Getgen, Crime, Revolution, Overthrow, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Extremist, Thomas Franklin Tuso, Guns, Home News

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- A prison guard accused of shooting a lawyer to death at a gun range told police he found the man dead and stole his rifle so it...

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Hawaii County Files Trespassing Charges Against Census Worker Russell Haas

AP | MARK NIESSE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Law, Anti Government, Census Bureau, Police, Russell Haas, States Rights, District Attorney, Hawaii, Feds, Honolulu, Politics News

HONOLULU — In these divisive times, Census worker Russell Haas has come to expect some resistance when he goes door to door to count the residen...

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The Alaska Contradiction (Why the Right Doesn't Want You to Notice the Streetlights)

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Spending, Cognitive Dissonance, Right Wing, Alaska, Stimulus, Public Services, Anti-Government, Politics News
Amy Traub

A cognitive dissonance animates the Right in America, and the New York Times nails it with today's front page case study of Alaska. The state depends ...

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Road Rage and the G20

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: g20, Tax Havens, Financial Transactions Tax, Anti-Government, World News
John Feffer

Anti-government rhetoric is all the rage these days. And "rage" is the operative word here. Small-government enthusiasts are like the drivers of Humme...

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Tea Party Love Song Video: If You Love America, Pay For It

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tax Day, Video, Progressive, Humor, Political Humor, President Obama, Dick Cheney, Congress, Tea Party March on Washington, Dick Armey, Anti-Tax, Tea Parties, Tea Party, Anti-Government, Politics News
Sally Kohn

As news media attention and Democratic anxiety turns toward the Tea Party march on Washington today, let's pause to remember that not only did 95% of...

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Hatred in the U.S. on the Rise

Rebecca Abrahams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Anti-Government, Politics News
Rebecca Abrahams

Anti-government "Patriot" groups in the U.S. have increased by 244% in the past year, and the Southern Poverty Law Center says talk show hosts are partly responsible for inciting racial hatred.

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Midwest Militia Raids: Agents Seize Gas Masks, Guns, Knives, More

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Militia Groups, Midwest Militias, Hutaree, Michigan Militia, Hutaree Militia, Detroit, Hutaree Raid, Christian Militia, Ann Arbor, Lenawee County, David Stone, Anti-Government, Chicago News

DETROIT — Federal agents investigating what they describe as a Christian militia bent on violence against police seized suspected crack cocaine ...

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Obama Tries To Put Positive Spin On Government

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Voters, Obama Voters, Obama Government, Tea Party, Obama Spin, Anti Government, Government Anger, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Barack Obama pledged to "make government cool again." After a year that gave birth to the anti-government tea party...

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Privatized Cutting Edges

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Aid, Privatization, Gulf Oil Spill, Anti-Government, Technology News
Rob Kall

Why are lovers of privatization and "government small enough so you can drown it in a bathtub" calling for Obama to come to the aid of the victims of a disaster created by a corporation?

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Broken Government, Bloodshed and Violence: Are Our Politicians Listening?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Violence, Nonviolence, Obama Health Care, Broken Government, Anti-Government, Joe Stack, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

There has been explosive growth in the number of anti-government individuals and groups in the U.S. who see the government as their enemy.

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Anti-corporate Anger vs. Anti-government Anger: Who to Trust?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Corporate Anger, Social Security, Va, Medicare, Socialism, Health Care, Big-Business, Anti-Government, Business News
Dr. Jim Taylor

It's easy to understand the anti-corporate anger felt by so many Americans these days. Big Business reaps massive profits through often-times reckless dealings and cost cutting.

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The F Word: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Joseph Stack, Austin, 911, Terrorist, Grit Tv, Plane, Irs, Terror, Laura Flanders, Suicide Bombing, Grittv, Right, Patriot, Muslim, Crash, Anti-Government, Politics News
Laura Flanders

By all means hold those who praise Stack to account, and call out media hypocrisy and double standards. But before you dismiss him as simply a crazy, read his manifesto.

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The Fire Next Time: IRS Plane Assault Hints of Things to Come

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard M. Benjamin

Deplorable though he might be, Joe Stack is not quite a "random bad apple." We ignore his screed, suicide, and crime at our own risk.

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Much Good Is Done By Government Workers

Max Stier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Veterans Affairs, Don Burke, Multiple Sclerosis, Cia, Beijing Olympics, Public Opinion Polls, Thomas Waldmann, Public Opinion, Mumbai Attacks, Iraq, Janet Kemp, Michael German, Sean Dennehy, Gallup, Patricia Guery, Aids, Anti-Government, Intellipedia, Campylobacter, Politics News
Max Stier

Lost in the inflammatory rhetoric is what our government and its dedicated public servants accomplish every day -- the delivery of vital services to deal with seemingly intractable problems.

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Sparkman: Casualty of Methland, USA? Or Victim of Anti-Government Bile?

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, White House, Hate Crimes, Teabaggers, 2042-Minorities, Crime, Violent Crime, Tax Protests, Michele Bachman, Census Boycott, Immigration, Right Wing, Race, Working Class, Census, 2010 Census, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Bill Sparkman, Methamphetamine, Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Government, Lou Dobbs, William Spakrkman Hanged, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.

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America's Number One Sucker Confronts Health Care Reform

Philip Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Republicans, Anti-Government, Individualism, Politics News
Philip Slater

Republican and Libertarian freeloaders are perfectly happy to drive on government-built roads, or call a policeman or fireman when they need him. They just don't want to pay for all this 'bureaucracy.'

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America's Self-Defeating Attitude on Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Costs, National Health Reform, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Anti-Government, Socialized Medicine, Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, Clinton Health Security Act, Barack Obama, Clinton-Care, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Health, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The current system encourages exclusion of those who need medical care the most, and only government has the power to restructure these incentives.

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