Timothy Noah's Health Insurance Resistance Article

Read this nutty article by Timothy Noah.

Health Reform and "Massive Resistance"

Is this David Brooks Statement True?

Here is what David Brooks had to say in a recent column.

. . . Tea Partiers are closer to the New Left. They don’t seek to form a counter-establishment because they don’t believe in establishments or in authority structures. They believe in the spontaneous uprising of participatory democracy. They believe in mass action and the politics of barricades, not in structure and organization.

As a Tea Partier, do you agree with Brooks?

As Good as it Gets

This is as good as it gets. Nice job Congressman Ryan:

"Hiding spending doesn't reduce spending!"

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"What this bill essentially does . . . it treats medicaid like a piggy bank!"

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"First off, the bill has ten years of tax increases and ten years of Medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending!"

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"You can't say that you're using this money to either extend Medicare solvency and also offset the cost of this new program. That's double counting."

And now you can get the T-Shirt! I'm not making any money off this and I encourage others to start producing these T-Shirt too. My friend Andrew Ian Dodge, from the great state of Maine was kind enough to whip one of these out.

Just click on the image below to get your "Hiding spending doesn't reduce spending!" T-Shirt.

The Frank Rich Oathkeeper Challenge

In his February 27 New York Times column, Frank Rich called the Oath Keepers "a rising militia group of veterans and former law enforcement officers who champion disregarding laws they oppose".

In response to this characterization, we have published the Oath Keepers "Declaration of Laws We Will not Obey".

We'd like Frank Rich to tell us which of the following laws or orders he thinks law enforcement officers or members of the military ought to obey?


1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey any order to conduct warrantless searches of the American people, their homes, vehicles, papers, or effects -- such as warrantless house-to house searches for weapons or persons.

3. We will NOT obey any order to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to trial by military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state, or to enter with force into a state, without the express consent and invitation of that state’s legislature and governor.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control” during any emergency, or under any other pretext. We will consider such use of foreign troops against our people to be an invasion and an act of war.

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies, under any emergency pretext whatsoever.

10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Frank Rich Blowing Chunks of Joe Stack

Hear ye.

Hear ye.

New York Times Columnist Frank Rich wants to tie Joe Stack to the Tea Party movement.

But he can't.

So in a sort rambling clear-as-mud February 27 diatribe, Rich presents America with a set of presumptions and unfounded assumptions. The funniest part is the first sentence -- "No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft."

No one much thinks of New York Times columnists as journalists anymore, least of all the American public which has been consistently voting against the left wing Times pundits with their dollars, to the extent that the Times has releases major numbers of employees in the last five years and is bleeding money like grape juice.

Anyway, I am just left wondering what distinguishes the paid columnists such as Frank Rich from the thousands (possibly millions) of unpaid columnists who do the same thing.

I mean, I think I get Frank Rich's message. He doesn't like the Tea Parties (and therefore must love big Government), and he wants to tie the Tea Partiers to other groups that don't like big government, some of which he has some dirt on . . . even if he doesn't really have any dirt directly on the Tea Parties.

But I wish Frank Rich would get it right.

Here is what Frank Rich had to say about the oath keepers -- "a rising militia group of veterans and former law enforcement officers who champion disregarding laws they oppose".

O really!

Perhaps columnist Rich should go back and read the conclusions of the Nuremberg Tribunals and compare them to the positions of the Oath Keepers.

Kathleen Hennessey on the Tea Parties

Tea party' rhetoric steals the stage at GOP conference
Los Angeles Times - Kathleen Hennessey - ‎Feb 19, 2010‎
Reporting from Washington - Both rising stars and faces from the past borrowed from the movement of the moment Friday at an annual ...

Tea party' activists filter into GOP at ground level
Los Angeles Times - Kathleen Hennessey - ‎Feb 14, 2010‎
(Christopher Berkey / European Pressphoto Agency / February 6, 2010) By Kathleen Hennessey Reporting from Washington - First there was the "tea party" ...

Enthusiastic Republicans crowding many primary races
Los Angeles Times - Kathleen Hennessey - ‎Feb 6, 2010‎
Reporting from Washington - As the Republican Party's chances of success in the fall elections increase week by week, so too has the ...

Tea party' convention a forum for woes, worries
Los Angeles Times - Kathleen Hennessey - ‎Feb 5, 2010‎
(Ed Reinke / Associated Press / February 5, 2010) By Kathleen Hennessey Reporting from Nashville - Ask Gail Hathaway, a warm 61-year-old retired nurse from ...

Tea party convention seeks to put power in motion
Los Angeles Times - Kathleen Hennessey - ‎Feb 4, 2010‎
Reporting from Washington - As anti-tax and small-government enthusiasts began pouring into Nashville for the National Tea Party ...

Does this Blogger Get Paid?

This is what we get anymore, instead of news. This blog article is by John Harwood, February 19, 2010.

It basically says that if Washington was better run then Washington would run a whole lot better?

Does Washington Need Fixing?

More importantly, is there anyone who ever reads "Week in Review" column in the New York Times?