Archive for the ‘tea party’ Category:

Topical thread: Tea Party politics

{ Posted on Dec 31 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
Via National memo comes a review of a book on the 'Tea Party'. One might imagine the changes that worry Tea Partiers to be primarily economic. But Tea Party members rarely emphasize economic concerns. The nightmare of societal decline is usually ...Read More »

What’s a person to do? or ‘motivated avoidance’

{ Posted on Dec 30 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
What's a person to do? or 'Motivated avoidance'  From the American Psychological Association comes two studies here and here. Individuals are often confronted with information that they do not know how to comprehend or evaluate, even though this information can be of ...Read More »

Guess who wrote this op-ed??

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this ...Read More »

Guess who wrote this op-ed??

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this ...Read More »

Guess who wrote this op-ed??

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this ...Read More »

Guess who wrote this op-ed??

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this ...Read More »

Guess who wrote this op-ed??

{ Posted on Nov 29 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this ...Read More »

"Free trade" and the Tea Party Congress

{ Posted on Oct 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
An op-ed in the Washington Post points to an idea worth exploring: For all the talk of populist foment – the Tea Party on the right and the new Occupy Wall Street movement on the left – business interests ...Read More »

US Debt Ceiling: What Congress Should Do

{ Posted on Apr 21 2011 by Z }
In the coming days, weeks, and months we’re sure to hear a lot about the US Government’s debt ceiling, but if you don’t know what it is, how it works, and why it matters, then you can’t possibly know why ...Read More »