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Kinsale hosts Come Home for Your Tea Party for The Gathering 2013 (IrishCentral)

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:01:23 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

The Kinsale Arts Festival is inviting friends old and new back to Kinsale for Come Home for Your Tea Party, in celebration of the Gathering.

Obama isn't Hitler or Stalin or the Anti-Christ (IrishCentral)

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:16:38 PST

In the Harry Potter alternative universe that is the acknowledged home of the floundering Tea Party, they have finally stopped comparing President Obama to the rogues gallery of lesser known tyrantsNow they're just flat out saying he's Hitler And Stalin And the Anti-Christ READ MORE

Clip of Irish President Michael D Higgins slamming US Tea Party politics goes viral – AUDIO (IrishCentral)

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:25:02 PDT

By: HILDA HIGGINS

A YouTube clip of Irish President Michael D Higgins slamming right wing conservatives in the US has become a viral hit.

Media breathlessly tries to tie Colorado shooter to Tea Party (IrishCentral)

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:46:19 PDT

The masked and heavily armed shooter burst into the crowded Aurora Colorado theater, threw a gas canister of some kind, then opened up with semi-automatic weapons into the confused and horrified crowd The attack seemed thoroughly planned, the gunman wore a gas mask and had full body armor on He was immune to the effects of the gas and in case any among the crowd was armed, he was protected In the wake of this brutal assault, 12 lay dead and perhaps another 50 lay wounded amongst the mostly young crowd who had jammed the theater to see the opening night of the new Batman movie, "Dark Knight Rising READ MORE

Will Governor Walker whip the left in Wisconsin recall? (IrishCentral)

Tue, 29 May 2012 02:45:13 PDT

Since 2010, Wisconsin has been ground zero in the battle for the political future of America Wisconsin citizens found their backs against the wall after years of rule by the left Fed up with ever increasing entitlement spending, with debt burdens spiraling their tax bill out of control, in 2010 they voted for a new governor They also gave the new governor a majority in the legislature READ MORE

Tea Party is changing America without soiling a cop car, or occupying a city (IrishCentral)

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:16 PDT

The Tea Party surfaces and flexes its political muscle at election time The Tea Party has galvanized Americans into action without occupying one city or breaking one merchants window READ MORE

Tantrums of a Tea Party - Internet turns global village into Appalachian backwood (IrishCentral)

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:45:12 PDT

Mitt Romney (REUTERS / Tim Shaffer)The media get blamed for a lot of things in the United States The charges leveled against them can range from having a blatant conservative or liberal bias, to charges of leading the news rather than reporting it What’s behind most of these charges is the irritation, experienced by many, at having to hear a point of view that differs pointedly from your own Nowadays Americans, possibly more than ever before, have no time for opposing opinions READ MORE

Obamacare faces the light of day in Supreme Court (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:45:11 PDT

Back in early 2010, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Congress, they would get to find out what's in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, after they passed it No need to ask any questions now regarding the pesky details and small print in the over 2700 pages of legalese Just vote yes for it, trust us and you will be pleasantly surprisedFor those legislators saying they couldn't vote if there were any provisions for abortion or abortion drugs, they were promised drugs/procedures would not be in it READ MORE

A Romney- Rubio GOP ticket would be devastating for Obama-Biden (IrishCentral)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:15:10 PDT

Mitt Romney s incredible organizational skills have made all the difference in this campaign season These skills have kept him at the top of the field in the GOP Presidential race None of the other candidates have the same built in political infrastructure in the remaining states to surmount Romney s lead in delegates None of the remaining GOP candidates can match Romney s financial firepower, the mother's milk of politics, as the race heads towards delegate rich states READ MORE

Time for Occupy Wall Street to leave, they are not the Tea Party (IrishCentral)

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:00:30 PDT

No matter how you spin it, "Occupy Wall Street" is not comparable to a Tea party grass roots gathering I have been listening lately to those on the left who say it is their version of the Tea Party, but as many see it ,there is no comparisonThe Tea Party has a clear unified message: Lower taxes and smaller government It's not complicated and hard to figure out, you can ask almost any participant and you will get that same general answer READ MORE

Could two African Americans, Barack Obama and Herman Cain, square off for president? (IrishCentral)

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:00:11 PDT

One of the most surprising twists in the Republican presidential race is the steep rise of Herman Cain in the pollsHe jumped 13 points last month while Rick Perry dropped twelve and is now the preferred candidate of 30 per cent of the tea party votersThat throws up the incredible possibility that it will be Cain versus Obama for the top job in America, an unimaginable scenario just a few years agoThe Cain mutiny has resulted in him being neck and neck with Romney for the Republican nomination READ MORE

Bush was a tragedy, Perry's a farce (IrishCentral)

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:05:25 PDT

Matt Drudge's misleading news report (IrishCentral)

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:35:19 PDT

Yesterday the Drudge Report - the website which has been the clearing house for the right wing's fever dreams for over a decade - ran a story that informed millions of its daily readers that PBS had edited a glaring error out of President Obama's job speech on ThursdayObama, a headlined article on Drudge's website claimed, had called Abraham Lincoln the founder of the Republican party But guess what, said the link on drudge's site, that claim wasn't in PBS's official transcript'So PBS has purposely altered a transcript containing a major gaffe by the President,' claimed the report READ MORE

Tea Party’s Christine O’Donnell storms off during Piers Morgan interview - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:10 PDT

In over three minutes of banter between Piers Morgan and Christine O’Donnell over the content of their interview, these esteemed figures, at some point, gave up on their political talk and got down to business They manage used the word “rude” a total of seven times, each one contesting the other with what they believe to be appropriate interview content O’Donnell, a former Republican candidate for the US senate with a reputation for eccentricity after the admitting a past involvement with witchcraft, was supposed to be interviewed to promote her new book, “Troublemaker” Thus, it seemed as though Morgan was under the impression that he could ask her anything from the book READ MORE

Links to U.S. Tea Party for Irish presidential front runner (IrishCentral)

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:19:14 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

An online blogger has revealed the close association between Irish presidential candidate Gay Mitchell and the American right wing activist and Tea Party supporter Alveda King.

Bill O'Reilly and Maureen Dowd now agree Obama is toast ---Only Tea Party extremism can save him (IrishCentral)

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:40:05 PDT

Bill O'Reilly thinks the only thing that can save the Obama presidency is the extremism of the Tea Party followers in CongressAnd he's rightMaureen Dowd compares Obama to Jimmy Carter today in her Sunday New York Times column, clearly overwhelmed by the job, bowing to Republican demands at every turn, out of his depthAnd she's right READ MORE

Power to the People! The Tea Party Can't be Bought (IrishCentral)

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:35:07 PDT

The American people spoke loud and clear last November when they overturned the status quo of both parties and voted in 87 new citizen legislators These freshmen/women vowed to bring some sanity to the swampland known as Washington DC These new legislators see what the budget really is: A vote buying machine designed to keep the established political interests in powerWhat is so evil about the country living within its means and having a balanced budget? Some are saying the divide in America is greater than it has ever been, "a divide between those who work for a living READ MORE

Tea Party movement a product of America’s Scots-Irish heritage (IrishCentral)

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:04:20 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

The rise of the Tea Party is closely linked to America’s Scots-Irish heritage, according to Senator James Webb.

Is the Tea Party over already? Glenn Beck's ratings take a plunge (IrishCentral)

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:50:17 PDT

What's going on with Glenn Beck's ratings?Looks like his viewers are dropping off like the proverbial fliesFigures from Nielsen show that the TV host has lost some 795,562 viewers since JanuaryThat's just over one-third of his average audience for April (215 million viewers) READ MORE

Tea Party cheers as 'Joe the Plumber' says he wants illegal immigrants shot (IrishCentral)

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:50:19 PDT

So this is what passes for considered thought these daysSamuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher (above) gets an ovation from Tea Party people attending a convention in CincinnatiWhy?Because he wants to shoot illegal immigrantsWurzelbacher and Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight (possibly better known as being Angelina Jolie's estranged father) were two of the star attractions at the Cincinnati tea fest READ MORE