The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession:
‘He Wanted to Watch It All the Time’

Kudos to the Arizona Republic for this follow-up reporting: Loughner began fixating on a documentary: “Zeitgeist: The Movie.” The movie is a bramble of conspiracy theories involving Sept. 11, the international monetary system, and Christianity. “There are people guiding your life and you don’t even know it,” the trailer for the movie intones. “He wanted to […]

Tucson, Zeitgeist and Madness: The Obsolete Politics of Jared Loughner UPDATE: Another E-Mail From a Zeitgeist Follower; Movement Leader Issues ‘Message to Members’

In the comments of a previous post, the blogger at 24Ahead.com elbowed me as a “Tea Party enabler” — an epithet that he would also apparently apply to Glenn Reynolds — and I think it’s time to clarify a few points about why I’ve spent the past four days digging into the Zeitgeist angle on the […]

Don’t Tell My Wife

“Honey, I’ve got to go cover another Tea Party rally,” I tell her, and she thinks it’s all about politics — lower taxes, limited government, stuff like that — but now Frances Fox Pivens has decided she’s a Tea Party expert and lets the cat out of the bag: Ed Driscoll reminds us that everything […]

‘Tea Party Envy’ and the Academic Elite

“We’ve long seen how tea party envy has been a common theme for the Obama era . . . and in [Harvard University history professor Jill] Lepore’s interview we see the lament that academic elites have failed to tap the tea party’s populist vibrancy. And so, when people and movements find themselves failing to be […]

They Only Have to Be Right Once

“Here we go,” says William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, after a Democrat decides that applying the phrase “job killing” to ObamaCare is an incitement to violence: A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to […]

Tea Party Group Now Planning
‘Siege of DC’ for January 21, 2011

Colorado’s T.L. Davis and other activists want citizens to come to Washington (or visit the offices of congressmen and Senators in their home districts) to pressure them to act on a constitutionalist agenda: These peaceful sieges will remain in effect until: Obamacare is Repealed The Federal Reserve is Audited and Ended Our rights are recognized […]

And This Was Not Even Voted the Worst Keith Olbermann Rant of 2010

This was only good enough for second runner-up in the Media Research Center’s “Dumb and Dumber Award” category of its 23rd annual Notable Quotables competition: “[The Tea Party-backed Republicans are] a group of unqualified, unstable individuals who will do what they are told, in exchange for money and power, and march this nation as far […]

The Unknown Tea Partiers

Da Tech Guy goes door-to-door and discovers Tea Party sentiments pervasive among small businessmen: . . .  mechanics, car dealerships, accountants, dry cleaners, manufacturers big and small, tire stores, restaurants, diners, barber shops, liquor stores, dentists and doctors, car washes, computer repair guys, investment specialists and even tutors. . . . Read the whole thing.

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