Tea Party
This is a heat wave, at least in the long term
January 13, 2011Unfortunately, the Republican Party, especially its Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin / tea party section, either doesn't believe or refuses to believe the truth about climate change.
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Tea party movement’s new politics: dangerous shape-shifting
November 30, 2010The usual norms of political discourse would emphasize a party's ability to ask pertinent questions and provide salient answers; to probe facts, poll members and seek solutions based largely on consensus or majority sentiment. Today's politics...
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Oklahoma OKs “you’re on your own” health care
November 9, 2010The reactionaries who swept the Oklahoma elections placed an especially confusing element before state and national politics by passing a referendum aimed at blocking the new national health care bill.
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What we can learn from the elections
November 9, 2010The "tea party movement" is neither "populist," or new; nor was it as I see it, a major factor inthe GOP victory. So what was?
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Constitutional amendment for right to work needed
November 5, 2010Given the worst losses for the Democrats in Congress in the last 50 years, some serious rethinking seems called for.
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