Tea Party

Koch Brothers’ very bad week

by News Sources 04.03.2012

Adele M. Stan writes: Were there a way for a few billion clams to wipe a week off the calendar, one imagines that Charles and David Koch, the multibillionaire principals of Koch Industries, would like to see the final week of March 2012 vaporized, at least in the public mind. For the Kochs, it was [...]

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Video: The Koch Brothers

by News Sources 03.29.2012
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The Tea Party’s ‘utopian market populism’

by News Sources 12.28.2011

Jefferson Morley writes: In his new book, “Pity the Billionaire,” Tom Frank turns his mordant eye on the unlikeliest political development of the Obama presidency: how the crash of 2008 served to strengthen the political right. The deregulation of Wall Street, championed for 30 years by right-wing leaders, had led to an economic catastrophe so [...]

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People & Power – The Koch Brothers

by News Sources 10.29.2011
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Robert Gates sees American political scene as dysfunctional and dangerous

by News Sources 09.27.2011

The Washington Post reports: Add former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to the list of retired top officials who see the current American political scene as dysfunctional and dangerous. “As a result of several long-building, polarizing trends in American politics and culture, we have lost the ability to execute even the basic functions of government, [...]

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The 2012 contest to show who loves Israel the most

by News Sources 09.20.2011

Daniel Levy writes: [I]t is in the realm of background noise, more than votes or dollars, that Israel really features as a campaign issue. John Heilemann, in an excellent New York Magazine piece, puts it like this: “the outsize attention they command and the ear-splitting volume of the collective megaphone they (Jews) wield.” Having to [...]

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Pastor Beck preaches in Jerusalem

by News Sources 08.25.2011

The Guardian reports: The temperature may have dropped a little in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, but it was more than compensated for by the heat produced by Glenn Beck as he brought his “Restoring Courage” rally to the Old City. The former Fox News presenter and devout Mormon stood at a podium beneath the gunmetal [...]

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The disturbing copy-and-paste habits of Arizona’s far-right state Senate president

by News Sources 08.03.2011

Jeff Biggers reports: As President Obama and congressional leaders wrangled over the debt ceiling last Saturday evening, Russell Pearce, Arizona’s controversial state Senate president, turned to Facebook to express his own personal outrage. “Folks,” he wrote, “if there was ever an argument for NO to raising the debt limit and YES to stop the reckless [...]

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Koch brother buys professors at public university to spread free market propaganda — is public education the Kochs’ next front?

by News Sources 05.11.2011

Sarah Seltzer writes: Usually, when billionaires or millionaires give a large sum of money to a university, even a private one, they can specify where that gift will go — which department or function, facilities, new hires, dorms, or what have you. And it’s no secret that some of those big donations may lead to [...]

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Wall Street tames Washington

by News Sources 04.28.2011

Jim Hightower writes: They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived than the corporate lobbying corps came to visit, saw what these supposed rebels were made of and quickly conquered [...]

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Big brothers: thought control at Koch

by News Sources 04.24.2011

In The Nation, Mark Ames and Mike Elk report: On the eve of the November midterm elections, Koch Industries sent an urgent letter to most of its 50,000 employees advising them on whom to vote for and warning them about the dire consequences to their families, their jobs and their country should they choose to [...]

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You thought the Koch brothers were bad? Turns out they’re even worse than you thought

by News Sources 04.06.2011

Adele M. Stan writes: You knew they were big. You knew they were evil. From the union-busting actions of their minions in Wisconsin and Ohio to their war on health-care reform, to their assault on the environment and their attacks on the science of climatology, Charles and David Koch have earned their place as the [...]

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Republicans who excused extremism in the name of victory have unleashed a monster

by News Sources 12.12.2010

Christopher Hitchens writes: It is often in the excuses and in the apologies that one finds the real offense. Looking back on the domestic political “surge” which the populist right has been celebrating since last month, I found myself most dispirited by the manner in which the more sophisticated conservatives attempted to conjure the nasty [...]

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The Tea Party is tapping into legitimate grievances

by Paul Woodward 11.06.2010

Noam Chomsky writes: The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats are in power, they bear the brunt of the revulsion over our current socioeconomic and political situation. More than half the “mainstream Americans” in a Rasmussen [...]

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Tea Party going to Israel

by News Sources 11.03.2010

Ynet reports: First they took Washington, now they’ll take Jerusalem? With victory in the congressional elections less than a day old, Florida Senator Marco Rubio (Rep.) who considers himself a ‘Tea Party’ member, is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday. Rubio’s visit so soon after the election win is a move that strengthens assessments [...]

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