Protecting the Tea Party Image

It’s not exactly news that I had disagreements with the organizers of the recent tea party convention in Nashville. So I’ll bring up another point of disagreement with them and hope to clarify what the movement is really about. Let me start by saying what it’s not about. By giving a prominent birther the microphone [...]

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Close the Floodgates

The Heritage Foundation today has a good good piece on the attempt for a second stimulus and the extreme growth of government taking place. Rather than recreate a similar article, I thought I would share some highlights:

Anticipating this bleak job news, the President announced in his State of the Union address last week: “That is why jobs [...]

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Building Your Tribe

My Uncle/Mentor/Entrepreneurial Advisor, Matt Miller, sent me a copy of Seth Godin’s “Tribes” for me to read about a year ago. With it being at the beginning of my last college semester, the book sat idle on my desk for a few days, but once I picked it up I had difficulty putting it down. [...]

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2K Millennium: The Rise of Small States

In the founding era of nation, there was one thing that small states enjoyed about the Articles of Confederation: each state had an equal vote in the legislative chamber.  Naturally, when the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia threatened the parity small states enjoyed under the Articles, the delegates from the small states protested and almost thwarted [...]

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Tea Parties Vs. OFA

Organizing for America was advertised as the nucleus of the progressive wave supposedly sweeping America. OFA was to have the capacity to organize, motivate, and deploy liberal drones throughout the country. They would utilize the passion stirred up from the 2008 presidential election, mobilizing campaign volunteers into policy advocates. Yet, everything we have seen is [...]

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Should Public Servants be Compensated?

Local and state governments across the country are going through difficult times.  One need only spend a few minutes glancing at the daily newspaper or viewing the lead stories on the evening news to get a sense of the budget crunch.  An issue that has recently surfaced is that of compensation for local elected officials.  This [...]

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Big Media + Big Gov = Big Love

It has become increasingly clear to most Americans that the mainstream media is courting the current White House with the intensity of a 17-year-old boy. As I flip through the major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC, it becomes painfully clear that there is an agenda they want to see pushed. When the president [...]

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Statism of the Union

So tonight we get to hear the State of the Union, and it will no doubt follow the usual storyline of glossing over the bad, highlighting the good (if there is any?), but in the end not really providing us an honest evaluation of where we stand right now, January 27, 2010. With all that [...]

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The Tea Partiers and the Continental Army

I’m going to make another comparison between the current tea party movement and the Founding of this nation. We all know about Valley Forge, and the trials and tribulations George Washington and the Continental Army faced during that brutal winter with the cold, sickness, and lack of food.
What is not as well known is the [...]

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A Leaderless Revolution?

I think it’s clear that what we’re seeing is something new in politics with the tea party movement, and especially with what took place last night in Massachusetts. It’s not about people choosing this party or that party, nor is it just about the anger of independents. It’s people looking for leadership that will actually [...]

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