Tag Archives: Tea Baggers

Ruth Rosen : The New Right-Wing Christian Feminism

Women’s Christian Temperance Union.In the late nineteenth century, female reformers sought to protect the family from “worldly dangers.”The Tea Party and the newRight-wing Christian feminism By Ruth Rosen /July 6, 2010 Why have American women become so active in the … Continue reading

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Roger Baker : Karl Marx, the Tea Party, and our Political Economy

A Tea Party take on the economy. Photo from the Los Angeles Times.The shifting currents ofOur political economy By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / June 23, 2010 Marx used to refer to what we now call the “economy” … Continue reading

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Pitchfork Populism : What Damage Will The Tea Baggers Do?

Photo from jkurt58 / Photobucket.What will they do to America?Right wing populism and the Tea BaggersBy Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / June 18, 2010 Maybe the great body of Tea Baggers cannot be reached, but we must answer … Continue reading

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Oil and Politics: Reality Comes Home to Roost

Photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Deregulate this!Oil, politics, and the Tea Party I must ask the tea-bag draped folks who insist our government should take a hands-off approach to ‘their lives’ what their reaction is to the … Continue reading

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Greg Moses : The Sound of Un-Hatched Chickens Crashing

Generation Payback:The cash value of capitalism By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / May 9, 2010 Confronted on Tax Day by satellite visions of free market capitalism led by the American Tea Party, global investors began to exit the … Continue reading

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Teabaggers in 2010? : Debunking the Political Wisdom

Image from The Daily Globe.Will the right wing seize power?Looking ahead to November By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / May 7, 2010 [The Rag Blog doesn’t post a lot about election predictions, but I think it is important … Continue reading

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Tim Wise : Imagine if the Tea Party Were Black

Imagine if these guys were black. Demonstrators carried weapons at a “Restore the Constitution” rally on the Potomac in Arlington, VA, April 19. Photos (top) by Bob Barnard / Fox 5 / New York, and (below) by Win McNamee / … Continue reading

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Republican Jujitsu : Protecting Wall Street from the People

Cartoon by L.M. Glackens, 1911 / Puck / Library of Congress.Republican Jujitsu:Protecting Wall StreetFrom accountability and reform By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / April 21, 2010 We are reading about two firms that sold securities to the unsuspecting … Continue reading

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Teabaggers Notwithstanding : Reform Mostly a Flop

Sophisticated analysis of health care reform by Atlanta teabagger, Aug. 15, 2009. Photo by Joeff Davis / Creative Loafing.Still not so good:Reflecting on health care reformBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / April 19, 2010 After a … Continue reading

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Tax Day Tea Party : Markets Overboard!

Cartoon by Mike Konapacki / solidarity.com.Tax Day Tea PartyTosses markets overboard By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2010 Like so many chests of tea tossed overboard into Boston Harbor, world markets fell straight down Friday in … Continue reading

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Culture Wars : ‘Take Our Country Back’

Confederate flag at Tea Party March on Washington, September 12, 2009. Image from Think Progress.Latest culture war in America: Nationalism in dangerous form Many fear that they have lost the country that was bequeathed to them — and to them … Continue reading

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Sherman DeBrosse : Rage, Racism, and the Future of the Tea Bagger Movement

The Tea Baggers:An identity temper tantrum with a violent edge By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / April 6, 2010 [This is the second in a two-part series on the Tea Bagger movement by Sherman DeBrosse. Go here to … Continue reading

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