Mumia Abu Jamal - Tea Parties And Protests As the Occupy Wall street movement gains steam and inspires similar protests worldwide, defenders of the so-called Tea Party have decried the Occupation activists as "law breakers" "radicals", and even "un-American" (unlike themselves, of course). ... Read more...
A 'Grand Bargain'--for Surrender [col. writ. 8/6/11] '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal The recent debt-ceiling kerfuffle, which was 'resolved' at the 11th hour amidst political and economic chaos, was less a deal than a defeat. For deals are made when both sides succeed in getting what they want wit... Read more...
The Daily Show - Republicans Watch "The Town" Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook House Republicans use a clip from "The Town" to urge hardline Tea Party freshman to support John Boehner's debt ceiling plan. Read more...
When Tea Party activists began protesting last July, it wasn’t the health-care overhaul that set them off. The target was a cap-and-trade bill, designed to limit carbon emissions, that had passed the U.S. House of Representatives a few days before. Their anger, along with opposition from some Dem... Read more...
A Washington Post columnist who appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday described tea partiers as potentially violent and decried internet journalism as “sort of like terrorism” When asked about her views on the Tea Party by host Bob Schieffer, Kathleen Parker, a Pulitzer Prize winning c... Read more...