Chicago Tea Party: Christmas Party ended in smoke and a bomb threat!

Last week the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party held a Christmas Party at Dugan’s Irish Pub, and there was a bomb threat. Here’s their Facebook statement. Last Friday we held our downtown Christmas Party at Dugan’s Irish Pub. We had a great crowd and the bar was filled with Christmas cheer until smoke began to [...]

How to tell if you’re a Good German

This post and the one after it are for all of us who think that we could never have participated in the Holocaust. Programs that are being instituted in your village, town, city, county etc. right now, are programs that carry the stench of the future, and the past.   Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Community Oriented Policing [...]

Are you a Good German?

Most of us, about a minute after we first heard about the Holocaust, wondered if we were the kind of people who would do that. If we were being honest with ourselves we said no, but then had that sort of vague uneasy feeling. Could we be sure? In the 1970′s Professor Philip Zimbardo conducted [...]

Battle of the sexes in DC ensues

Free US Now and members Urge Democratic Leadership to Name Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Ranking Member of Oversight Committee December 16, 2010 The battle to lead the Oversight Committee has begun, and Free US Now and members join many other leading Women’s groups who are supporting Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to be the next Ranking Member [...]

Tea Party partners with CNN to host 2012 debates

The Tea Party Express is pleased to announce that we have agreed to partner with CNN to host the first-ever Tea Party Presidential Debate for GOP candidates for president. This is a huge victory for the tea party movement as we will not only hold Republican candidates accountable for supporting tea party principles of limited government, but it [...]

Parents’ group scolds TV shows for sexualizing young girls

Contributed by:  Liz In a raft of prime-time TV shows, underage girls are depicted in a higher percentage of sexual situations than adult women, according to a new report by a watchdog group of parents.  The study from the Parents Television Council focused on the 25 network TV shows that are most popular among children [...]

UN votes to name alleged rapists in war

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to name and shame individuals and parties to armed conflict that are “credibly suspected” of committing rape or other forms of sexual violence.     The council said it intends to use the list, to be compiled by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, “for more focused [...]

Think your votes don’t count? Think Again!

By: BettyJean Kling For the first time since 1992 when I wrote The Patriot Plan: Voter Imposed Term Limits , I am not ashamed of the voters in this country. We The People sent a message too loud to be ignored on November 2, 2010. I wrote then that there are only two things politicians [...]

Are the Beautiful People’s Pens Mightier Than the Iranian Regime’s Stones?

by Phyllis CheslerNewsRealBlogDecember 15, 2010 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/913/iranian-regime-stones Excerpt: The Beautiful People have just weighed in on the matter of She-Who-Would-Be-Stoned. More than eighty actors, models, singers, musicians, comedians, authors, philosophers, artists, and parliamentarians (mainly based in Europe), have just signed a letter on behalf of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. The letter is addressed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, [...]

Offensive Images: Merry Christmas

Barbara I recently read an article that Hindus in the UK were protesting the Christmas stamp finding it offensive. I also heard the ACLU was protesting the imagines associated with Christmas seems Santa has now joined the long list of what is offensive, you know Nativity scenes, Angels singing, Sheppard’s watching and the all offensive [...]