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Anti-Obama Taxpayer Tea Parties steeped in insanity — What, exactly, are the protesters protesting? The marginal tax rate rising 3% for millionaires? — 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 Monica to South Carolina.
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Left Behind? — Glenn Reynolds today pens an op-ed hailing the “tea-party” “movement” as a post-partisan, spontaneous uprising of ordinary folks against the establishment of both parties. He makes no mention of Pajamas Media's heavy investment in the events, nor Fox News' endless touting …
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Tax Day Becomes Protest Day — How the tea parties could change American politics. — Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending.
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A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started — It's here! — For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to get you up to speed.
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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties — Rain-streaked tea bags hung from the umbrellas and eyeglasses of protesters as Tea Party Day got off to a soggy start along the East Coast on Wednesday. — On a day when the government deadline for filing income tax returns offered some Americans …
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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Protesters' Plan to Dump Tea Is Prohibited — There will be no tea-dumping in the Potomac River — that's illegal — but organizers of today's national tea party tax protest found out this morning that so is their plan to dump a million tea bags in Lafayette Square to demonstrate displeasure at government spending and tax policies.
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‘TEA PARTIES’: THE NEXT GRASS-ROOTS MOVEMENT? — Yes: We conservatives have decided to take our grievances to the streets — Who is the leader of the conservative movement? Is it Michael Steele at the Republican National Committee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or even Rush Limbaugh?
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Wall Street Journal, Time, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Dallas Morning News, Hot Air, The Economist and The Fix
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As Fox Host Denies Tea Parties Are ‘A Right-Wing Conspiracy,’ Fox Chyron Touts AmericanSolutions.Com — As part of the network's day-long promotion of the anti-Obama tea parties, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson interviewed three tea party organizers on Fox and Friends this morning.
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Christy Hardin Smith
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CNBC Asks Santelli to React to Tea Parties: 'I'm Pretty Proud of This'
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The Second Rule of Tea Parties Is You Don't Talk About Tea Parties
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FIRST THOUGHTS: TEA TIME — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
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Tea Parties a Test of Conservative Online Organizing
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Protest stops Tancredo's UNC speech — CHAPEL HILL — UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.
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UNC protest gets rowdy — CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) — There are two questions following a rowdy student protest at UNC Chapel Hill Tuesday night. — Did the protest get out of line and did campus police go too far? — Dozens of protesters turned out to oppose a speech given by a former Colorado congressman …
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When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Look Like Tea Party Crashers
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In Minnesota, a Battle Without End for a Senate Seat — ST. PAUL — Norm Coleman spends his days in the quiet living room of his small house here, thumbing through stacks of legal papers. His United States Senate staff and offices vanished at the start of the year, as did his salary …
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Is the GOP Waving Bye-Bye to Sarah Palin? — Worse than Dan Quayle before her, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's bright star has fast faded in the eyes of Washington Republican officials and analysts, calling into question her efforts to become a national party figure ready to run for the White House.
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Ron Paul's plan to fend off pirates — A little-known congressional power could help the federal government keep the Somali pirates in check — and possibly do it for a discount price. — Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a growing number of national security experts are calling on Congress …
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Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos — Top Officials at Odds Over Whether to Withhold Some Details on Interrogation Tactics — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations …
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Afghan Women Protest New Restrictive Law — KABUL — The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on the other side of the street when they were spotted by a mob of men. — “Get out of here, you whores!” the men shouted. “Get out!”
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The Panic of 1825 — If you're not satisfied with Paul Krugman or Nouriel Roubini as your guide to the current turmoil, you can always rely on E.M. Forster. It was Forster who grasped the essential drawback of the Internet long before anyone else, depicting, in his 1909 story “The Machine Stops” …
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IRS workers see double standard on tax errors — The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses. — Now, as Wednesday's tax deadline looms, some Americans are wondering …
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Obama: Get the dread out of tax deadline day — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared on tax-filing day that he aims to ease the dread of deadline day with “a simpler tax code that rewards work and the pursuit of the American dream.”
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In the Age of Pirates — I've been thinking lately of starting a new school of foreign service to train U.S. diplomats. My school, though, would be very simple. It would consist of a single classroom with a desk and a chair. At the desk would be a teacher, pretending to be a foreign leader.
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SEAL Sniper Details Trickle In — For those Buzz readers hungry for detail about the Somali pirates, my buddy Christian over at DefenseTech offers some details about the techniques behind the SEAL sniper shots. Read on for some info about the firearms used and who probably played in this most satisfying incident at sea.
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U.S. failed to use best radar for N. Korea missile — Gates refused area commander's request — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon's most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea's recent missile launch …
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The Obama Legacy
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Begala: April 15 is patriots' day — Editor's note: Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and was counselor to Clinton in the White House. For another view on taxes, read here
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