Tax Day Tea Party

Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Dawn Teo

Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.

Campbell Brown Smears MSNBC

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media


Matt Osborne

Fox News is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties in a football game.

America Needs A True Revolution Of Values

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


David A. Love

Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?

Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


David A. Love

When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...

Health Care Reform is the New Gay Marriage

Morgan Warners | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media


Morgan Warners

Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.

Unpatridiotic

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Lance Simmens

A flat tax is regressive, adversely affects the poorest the worst, and rejects the notion that those who are most able should contribute more to the perpetuation of an equitable and just society.

Help HuffPost Report On Health Care Town Halls And Tea Party-Style Protests (ASSIGNMENT DESK)

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Health care town halls are fast becoming ground zero in the battle over health reform, with attempts to hold a civil discussion sometimes being intent...

Embracing the Crazy

Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics


Dan Sweeney

Birthers: the people who believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or Indonesia, or Mars, or the Seventh Ring of Hell.

Pleading the Fifth: The Palin Constitution Revolution

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics


Karen Dalton-Beninato

I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.

Iran Uprising: Why Do So Many Want Obama To Turn Iran's Protests Into A "Teabag Party"?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.20.2009 | World


Stuart Whatley

Those who wish for Obama to adopt a stronger tone ground their argument in the arrogant belief that our endorsement is the sine qua non of any successful democratic political movement.

Mocking the Poor is a Bad, Bad Strategy

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

A good way to fuel bigoted behavior is to make dissidents feel like they don't have an outlet for their frustrations.

What Is So Outrageous About Paying Our Bills?

Larry Gellman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics


Larry Gellman

I always thought that taxes were the way we paid our bills. In a democracy we have elected representatives who spend money on our behalf on things like defense, security, wars, bridges, and health care benefits.-

Take Me to Your Editor

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media


Peter Y. Sussman

Massive, unfiltered exercises in citizen journalism can tilt public understanding as surely as the rush of passengers from one side to the other can threaten the stability of a small boat.

Tea Party Planned For Tomorrow In Michigan

Petoskey News-Review | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics


Emmet County's chapter of Taxed Enough Already is hoping to draw up to 1,000 people to its latest demonstration at 6 p.m. Friday, May 1, in Petoskey's...

Fox News: 100 Days of "Opposition" to Obama (Video)

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

Fox News has gone to tremendous lengths mainstreaming the sometimes violent, revolutionary doomsday rhetoric of the far right, which used to be confined to the extremist fringe.

Jason Linkins

Susan Roesgen Video: CNN Reporter Being Taken To Task At Tea Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media


Remember back on Tea Party Day how that CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, went on the air in Chicago, basically doing her best to manufacture a little acti...

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.

Con Games: Conservatives Tea It Up on Tox News

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media


Michael Conniff

The conservative pot must be stirred and their anger about pretty much everything, seasoned to the taste.

A Last Bit of Tea Party Coverage (For Those Who Just Haven't Had Enough)

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics


Dan Sweeney

The people here didn't, as a whole, remind me of some dumbass redneck stereotype. No, they reminded me of anti-Bush, anti-war protesters from about four years ago.

Jason Linkins

California GOP Decries Anti-Semitic Tea Party Activism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics


Last week's Tea Parties went forward despite the fact that there was a little bit of dispute over who owned the Tea Party movement -- a battle between...

Limbaugh Berates Caller For "Regurgitating Left-Wing Drivel" (AUDIO)

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media


Rush Limbaugh blasted a caller on his radio show who blamed the host for encouraging anti-Obama rhetoric and advocating for last week's tax day tea pa...

Joe the Plumber in Michigan: Pass the Tea, Drink the Kool-Aid

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics


Susan J. Demas

Hailing Joe the Plumber as an authority on tax policy is kind of like appointing the puffy-shirted FreeCreditReport.com guys expertise on the Somali pirate situation.

Time for a Tea Party with the Right: Why Progressives Need a Transpartisan Strategy

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics


Bill Shireman

Let's sit down with the right for tea. Let them vent their anger and hate - and we can vent ours. Let's listen to the fear that lies beneath the hate, to the reasons they're afraid.

Teabaggers Stray Off Topic, HuffPosters Report

HuffPost Citizen Journalists | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics


Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos...

When the Left Went Teabagging: As You Chuckle at the Right's Newfound Activism, Don't Forget That the Left Sucked Balls for Years

Daniel Sinker | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics


Daniel Sinker

Without two decades wandering the desert, we wouldn't have built the modern infrastructure that the left stands on now. So laugh if you want, but today's teabaggers may be tomorrow's resurgent Right.