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.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
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.
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
In a series of earlier articles, I have discussed the concepts of "collective trauma"--the shattering of our shared illusions of grandiose invincibili...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Why the hell is this populist, boastful ignorance being actively encouraged and exploited by conservative corporate lobbyists, Fox News and, indeed, the Republican Party?
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
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."
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...
Bob Cesca | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
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.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
Just when we thought the theft of our personal freedoms had added yet another level of frustration, Arkansas lawmakers rejected a ban on snuff.
Byron Williams | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics