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Sarah Palin, One of the Us? Not at All. Palin’s Speaking Demands Confirmed: $75K, SUVs, Deluxe Hotel Suites, Bendable Straws, And No Public Access

By Jorge Barake, on August 31st, 2010%

Think Progress

In April, two students at Cal State Stanislaus found a partial copy of a speaker’s contract for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The partial copy revealed that Palin, who was due to speak at the university in June, has “more demands than an opera diva when she hits the road,” as the New York . . . → Read More: Sarah Palin, One of the Us? Not at All. Palin’s Speaking Demands Confirmed: $75K, SUVs, Deluxe Hotel Suites, Bendable Straws, And No Public Access

Beck: People Don’t Recognize ‘Obama’s Version of Christianity’ Beck Should Study Theology Before Making Comments. Beck’s Not Christian.

By Jorge Barake, on August 29th, 2010%

Source: Washington Post

Just one day after he drew a sea of conservative activists to see him speak on the National Mall, Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the event. Beck said his rally — at which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also spoke — drew “on the . . . → Read More: Beck: People Don’t Recognize ‘Obama’s Version of Christianity’ Beck Should Study Theology Before Making Comments. Beck’s Not Christian.

Intolerance and Now Violence: Fire at Tennessee Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson

By Jorge Barake, on August 29th, 2010%

Source: CBS News

Construction Equipment at Site of Planned Islamic Center Torched; Vocal Protests Against Mosque Have Been Ongoing

Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb.

Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to CBS Affiliate WTVF that the . . . → Read More: Intolerance and Now Violence: Fire at Tennessee Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson

Great Piece: Barack Obama is Down, but It’s Far Too Early to Count Him Out

By Jorge Barake, on August 28th, 2010%

Source: The Observer

Despite an impressive record by the president, discontented American voters are turning against the Democrats.

They won’t give him a break – literally so. Barack Obama has reached that point of his presidency when he can’t even join his fellow citizens in the all-American tradition of the August vacation without taking a . . . → Read More: Great Piece: Barack Obama is Down, but It’s Far Too Early to Count Him Out

Smoke Bombs Thrown at Right-Wing Group English Defense League Protest. EDL and Tea Party Similar in Intolerance?

By Jorge Barake, on August 28th, 2010%

Source: Lancaster Unity

More than 1,600 officers on horseback and in riot gear pen in 700 activists, including BNP members and soccer thugs

Far-right activists threw smoke bombs and missiles and fought with the police as trouble flared in a protest organised by the English Defence League.

Bricks and bottles and smoke bombs were . . . → Read More: Smoke Bombs Thrown at Right-Wing Group English Defense League Protest. EDL and Tea Party Similar in Intolerance?

Another Dumbass Tea Party Candidate– Joe Miller– Linking US Senator Lisa Murkowski to a Prostitute

By Jorge Barake, on August 27th, 2010%

Source: NPR

A campaign staff member for Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Miller was told to exercise more caution Friday after sending a tweet that appeared to liken a possible party switch by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Miller’s GOP rival, to prostitution.

Murkowski’s campaign responded by calling the tweet “disgusting” and demanding an apology.

Alaska‘s . . . → Read More: Another Dumbass Tea Party Candidate– Joe Miller– Linking US Senator Lisa Murkowski to a Prostitute

Conservative Columnist Michael Gerson: Why the Tea Party is Toxic for the GOP

By Jorge Barake, on August 25th, 2010%

Source: Washington Post

Yet the Republican Party suffers its own difficulty — an untested ideology at the core of its appeal.

In the normal course of events, political movements begin as intellectual arguments, often conducted for years in serious books and journals. To study the Tea Party movement, future scholars will sift through the . . . → Read More: Conservative Columnist Michael Gerson: Why the Tea Party is Toxic for the GOP

Sharron Angle Speaks To Group of HIV Deniers, Fringe Medical Group

By Jorge Barake, on August 6th, 2010%

Amanda Marcotte/Salon/XXFactor

Why can’t the Republican party do a better job of wrangling Sharron Angle? It can’t be that expensive to put at least one person on her to research everyone she associates with, so she can be run off spending time with some of her nuttier allies. This morning, John Ralston of the . . . → Read More: Sharron Angle Speaks To Group of HIV Deniers, Fringe Medical Group

Video: Sharron Angle– Press Should ‘Ask The Questions We Want To Answer’ Flashbacks To 2008

By Jorge Barake, on August 3rd, 2010%

Matt DeLong/Washington Post

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle gave a revealing interview Monday over the weekend to Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, in which she said that her campaign wanted the press “to be our friend.”

“We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer, so that they report the news the way . . . → Read More: Video: Sharron Angle– Press Should ‘Ask The Questions We Want To Answer’ Flashbacks To 2008

Tea Party Caucus Members Bankrolled by Health Professionals, Retirees, Oil Interests

By Jorge Barake, on August 1st, 2010%

Andrew Kreighbaum/OpenSecrets

Your doctor, your Realtor, your grandpa — they may be drinking a particularly political brand of tea.

A Center for Responsive Politics analysis shows that the top contributors to the 50 members of a newly-established congressional Tea Party caucus — so far includes only Republicans — are health professionals, retirees, the real estate industry . . . → Read More: Tea Party Caucus Members Bankrolled by Health Professionals, Retirees, Oil Interests

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