Boston Tea Party

Teapot Tempest -- Much Ado about Historical Inaccuracies

Byron Williams | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics


Byron Williams

The "Tax Day Tea Party" used an event critical to transforming the 13 British colonies into the United States of America for their own political purposes, thus, cheapening a key point in history.

Patriots' Day -- It's Not About the Marathon

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics


Kenneth C. Davis

Joseph Warren's story remained buried, overshadowed by the more illustrious Founders with better biographers. He became the most important Founding Father most of us never heard of.

Tea Parties as Resurrective Ideology

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics


Robert D. Stolorow

In a series of earlier articles, I have discussed the concepts of "collective trauma"--the shattering of our shared illusions of grandiose invincibili...

Tea Party, Tax Day, Boston TEA PARTY Protests

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. Anti-tax activists are assembling ...

Tea Party Organizer: Mission Accomplished

Fox News | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


The attention being given the national tea party movement is nothing short of remarkable. Organized by a few people using new social media tools like...

"Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties Steeped In Insanity": LA Times

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


The Web is buzzing with information about how to throw an anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Party, something organizers hope will be held today from Santa Monic...

Obama Creating Crisis "100 Times As Grim As 9/11": Annapolis Teabaggers

Legum's New Line | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Today, I went down to the City Dock in Annapolis to check out the local "tea party," one of many anti-Obama protests occurring around the nation today...

Sam Stein

Fox News Reporter: Wake Up And Fight The Fascism In Our Country (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. Over-stimulated, perhaps, by the...

Youtube On Tea Parties: "Invalid Argument"

The Full Ginsburg | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


So in editing this morning's IRS video, we'd done some searching for footage of those terrible terrible terrible tea parties, and lo and behold, YouTu...

'Chairman Maobama' Is Leading The Country On A Path To Socialism: DC Teabaggers

Think Progress | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Today, ThinkProgress went over to Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House to attend one of the many right-wing Tax Day Tea Parties taking pl...

Vets Upset At Teabaggers For Holding Rally At Kansas Vet Memorial

Think Progress | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


Tomorrow, conservatives around the country will be holding Tax Day tea parties. Although "tea" technically stands for "taxed enough already," Fox News...

Huckabee Admits Tea Parties Only "Mostly" Spontaneous

ABC | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


"The tea parties are mostly an honest spontaneous effort by ordinary people from all over the political spectrum to express their outrage at governmen...

Teabagging: Redux Anti-Intellectualism

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics


Stuart Whatley

Why the hell is this populist, boastful ignorance being actively encouraged and exploited by conservative corporate lobbyists, Fox News and, indeed, the Republican Party?

Tea And Sympathy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

If the modern-day Tea Parties are smart, they would try to educate the public and hang their whole protest on the "anti-bailout" hook.

Hey, Tax Day Tea Parties -- Your 'Grassroots Movement' Can't Have Corporate Media Sponsorship

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Tina Dupuy

I want the stimulus bill to stimulate the economy. I want businesses and markets to be regulated just enough to ban legal pirates but not too much to make them dead in the water.

The 1040 Rebellion

Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Patricia Draznin

Be prepared, be very prepared. After all, paying taxes is just the price of our freedom to work and pay taxes. Remember this when you're drinking your next cup of tea.

Arthur Delaney

Gay Activists Plan Their Own Tea Party At Boston Harbor

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Tea party protests won't be limited to the rightward-leaning, anti-spending, anti-tax crowd come April 15. In Massachusetts, the LGBT community is pla...

Anti-Tax Tea Party Protests Nationwide: What You Need To Know

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics


HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. It's been over a month since CNB...

It's Time to Join the Resistance

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics


John W. Whitehead

Thankfully, there are a growing number of Americans--what I like to refer to as "teaspoons of resistance"--who have not given up the fight and are choosing to exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and "petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Jason Linkins

Lloyd Marcus Gives Tea Party Movement Its Own Anthem (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics


In case you haven't noticed, the latest fad in faux populism is the new "Tea Party" movement, which is the new new thing among the extreme followers o...

The Weird Contradictions of the Tea Bag Revolution

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics


Bob Cesca

It turns out that that the tea baggers, led in part by Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds and the Coward Rick Santelli, are politically more in line with the tax policies of King George than the views of the colonial patriots.

Boston Tea Party, 2008

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Robert Scheer

How dare you throw that tea into Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of telling us if we don't instantly give Wall Street $700 billion, then we are destroying America.

Boston Tea Party, Arkansas Snuff Fest

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics


Maggie Van Ostrand

Just when we thought the theft of our personal freedoms had added yet another level of frustration, Arkansas lawmakers rejected a ban on snuff.