Why Do We Keep Calling Tea Partiers “Anti-Government”?

By: Thursday September 23, 2010 2:25 pm

Conservatives, including those of the Tea Party variety, aren’t “anti-government.” In most respects they are pro-government to the point of authoritarianism. What they really oppose is any form of cooperative or collective solution to the problems of a complex industrial (or post-industrial) society – especially when the beneficiaries are people they regard with suspicion or fear.

“Mommy, what’s AIDS?”

By: Monday September 7, 2009 11:19 am

President Kenyatta Mandingo will propagandize your babies on their first day of school tomorrow, and of course you know he’s gonna talk about sex. Here’s what he’ll say.

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