The doctor shoved the syringe into the old man’s neck.  He collapsed in convulsions before lying still. The Grim Reaper cackled surprisingly loudly in the background, as President Obama (or at least someone with a mask that looked like him) danced in celebration at the macabre spectacle. “There goes the media,” said one of the protesters in disgust as the cameramen … [Read More]

In one sense, I halfway agree with Nancy Pelosi. Screaming or shouting down politicians or fellow citizens in a public forum isn’t exactly productive. Yet I also agree with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” In my lifetime, I can’t recall our politicians ever … [Read More]

While the dissident Left has curiously become mute under Obama, the dissident Right has turned up the volume in questioning a Democratic president whose agenda includes some of the most ambitious big government experiments in this nation’s history. Targeting Americans who have been vocally uneasy with such drastic government expansion, last week a few of my Left-leaning friends at the Charleston … [Read More]

Or, the Story Behind My Historic Battle Against Racial Hatred and Intolerance. One trick in the direct mail business is to give people a reason to send back the reply envelope for reasons other than the check.  Everyone does it.  Usually it’s something like a signed membership card for the “vast right-wing conspiracy.”  My employer Team America PAC tries to make … [Read More]

Today I interview James Ostrowski, libertarian extraordinaire, lawyer, writer, and tea party organizer. Mr. Ostrowski is the founder of Free Buffalo (2005), and author of the tea party manifesto, “How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot.” He’s been fighting the political machine for 35 years. ILANA: The tea party protests across the country are all fueled … [Read More]

What the tea parties represent more than anything, is something that would have never been possible on the Right a year ago - a substantial, anti-government grassroots movement that is increasingly becoming more radical. Eight years of defending George W. Bush created a conservative movement that justified big government, cast a blind eye to spending, and would have cheered a Big … [Read More]

According to Paul Krugman, the some 700 “Tea Parties” that sprung up in all 50 states yesterday weren’t really about taxes and government spending. They were instead an opportunity for the disposed yahoodom of fly-over country to huddle together and grunt about Barack Obama’s Muslim faith and the wickedness of the theory of evolution, and perhaps consider persecuting a dissenter or … [Read More]