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Saturday was easily one of the best days I’ve had in recent years, politically speaking, with maybe the exception of November 04, 2008. So what happened that made this day such a success in my eyes? An unusual alignment of the stars? No. The arrival of my dream girl? Sadly, no. Saturday was historic for [...]

While I’ve previously spoken about the the point of this Saturday’s march, the game recently became elevated to a higher level. At first it seemed like the first vote in the US House of Representatives would be held Saturday night, but all of that appears to have changed — according to the Associated Press:
Majority Leader [...]

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the Wichita Eagle selling out and pandering to the teabaggers who made a brief appearance in my fair city of Wichita on Wednesday at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.  In that post, I wrote:
“The astroturf movement is paid for by David Koch of Wichita-based Koch Industries to the tune of $20 [...]

UPDATE –THE WORD IS OUT
Apparently the same Tea Party officials who brought you Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project and yesterday’s Michelle Bachmann “march” on Washington DC have found out about our plans. According to an e-mail that we received from the Americans for Prosperity (AFP):
We’ve learned that Democrat operatives and MoveOn.org are planning to protest Sen. [...]

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to head on down to the local stop of the Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day (sounds ominous enough) at Lawrence Dumont Stadium in Wichita. The astroturf movement is paid for by David Koch of Wichita-based Koch Industries to the tune of $20 million $12,906,712 of his [...]