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Tea Party: Why the Right Doesn't Get it

Progressives find much to like in Tea Partiers' calls for a return to core values embodied by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But only in theory.

Maui Time | Ted Rall | 04-22-2010 | Commentary

The Preacher Councilor: Salvation on Sunday, Politics on Mondaynew

Dan Lewis is the first religious leader in living memory elected to the Albuquerque City Council.

Weekly Alibi | Carolyn Carlson | 04-19-2010 | Politics

Don't Tread on Them: Profile of a Tea Party Rallynew

The "tea baggers," as they're commonly called, aren't united by any clear political belief or objective, which makes it difficult to describe them. But they're all angry about something, and for now that's enough.

Chicago Reader | Lauri Apple | 04-19-2010 | Politics

Tags: Tea Party

End the Failed 'War' on Drugsnew

There's only one way to decrease border violence: the legalization of drugs.

Tucson Weekly | Randy Serraglio | 04-15-2010 | Commentary

Hannity is Irked by Tea Partiersnew

Sean Hannity has nothing but disdain for the Tea Party's No. 1 goal: to vote all the bums out, Democrat and Republican alike. Hannity wants to keep those bums in power, as long as they're members of the GOP and their last name isn't Paul.

Charleston City Paper | Chris Haire | 04-14-2010 | Politics

Tags: Tea Party, Sean Hannity

Free the Troops

If the military wants to attract smart young men and women like I used to be, with high test scores and clean criminal records, they're going to have to start treating recruits like employees, not slaves or indentured servants.

Maui Time | Ted Rall | 04-14-2010 | Commentary

Who Won Iraq’s Election?new

Using a complicated system of calculations called "basic arithmetic," one is able to see that Ayad Allawi did not actually win the election.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Andisheh Nouraee | 04-13-2010 | Commentary

Tags: Ayad Allawi, Iraq

Q&A: Connecticut’s Budget Crisisnew

The CT legislature passed a months-overdue two-year budget last August, but eight months later the state is already $500 million in debt this year.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 04-13-2010 | Politics

Tags: Jodi Rell

Tea Bag Schwagnew

There was a big Tea Party thing in Buffalo this morning. Three tour buses, and lots of angry white people. If you missed it, you missed your chance to get neato T-shirts and stickers that can proclaim your anger to everyone.

Artvoice | Buck Quigley | 04-12-2010 | Politics

Tags: Tea Party

Bored of Sestak-Specter-Toomey Yet? Not Usnew

Joe Sestak is still doing this whole “I want to be a senator” thing. He and Pat Toomey, the likely PA Republican Senate candidate, debated at LaSalle University last night. That new pinko liberal Arlen Specter couldn’t make it, but Sestak, for whatever reason, doesn’t want to give this thing up.

Philadelphia Weekly | Randy LoBasso | 04-12-2010 | Commentary

Tags: Joe Sestak, 2010 Midterms, Pat Toomey

Bart Stupak Paid Below-Market Rates for Rental in Washington, D.C.new

Last week, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints alleging that current and former residents of the stately row house at 133 C St. in Washington, D.C. paid below-market rates for rooms they rented in the $1.8 million dollar redbrick building. One of the U.S. reps named in the complaint is none other than Bart Stupak, the Democrat who gained much national attention for his proposed anti-abortion amendment to the just-signed health care bill.

Metro Times | Metro Times Staff | 04-09-2010 | Politics

Tags: 133 C St., Bart Stupak

Wanted: Females to Run Calgary's City hallnew

Who says it isn’t a man’s world? Since Calgary Mayor Dave Bronconnier announced earlier this year he isn’t seeking a fourth term in the fall civic election, not one female has stepped forward to bid for the mayor’s chair.

Fast Forward Weekly | Trevor Scott Howell | 04-08-2010 | Politics

Tags: Bev Longstaff, Bronconnier, Druh Farrell, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Ralph Klein, Sue Higgins, Calgary

South Carolina RNC Members Back Steele — For Nownew

In the past two weeks, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele has found himself engulfed in scandal and his neck stretched out over a public chopping block, top Republicans in South Carolina have got his back.

Columbia Free Times | Corey Hutchins | 04-07-2010 | Politics

Tags: Michael Steele, RNC