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By Reid Pillifant
August 31, 2010 | 6:08 p.m
 

There were no costumed Revolutionary soldiers. And there was no Carl Paladino.
At a Tea Party event in the heart of liberal Manhattan last night, about 80 people packed into a performance hall at Baruch College to hear a slate of longshot congressional candidates, followed by the man hoping [...]

Current federal budget trends are capable of destroying this country

By Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Posted: August 26, 2010
There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama’s stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is [...]

By David Webb | Co-founder TeaParty365 | 8/27/10 2:20PM
Since Michael Caputo has chosen the public forum I am extending this invitation. Join me on the radio to discuss the issue publicly this Sunday, August 29 at 11:45am on The Grinder on AM 970 NYC. Those outside the New York Metropolitan area can listen online at [...]

By Paul Bedard
Posted: August 25, 2010
One of Washington’s principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location [...]

By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime.Cutbacks in such places as Oakland, Tulsa and Norton, Mass. have forced police to tell residents to file their own reports — online or in writing — [...]

On Thursday August 19, 2010, 5:11 pm EDT
By Richard Cowan and Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy faces difficult times ahead with chronic unemployment and slow manufacturing hurting the pace of recovery, the head of Congress’ budget agency said on Thursday.
The warning from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office came on top of more bad [...]

By Celeste Katz | August 18, 2010 11:08 PM
Sprinkled throughout the list of all the independent (small-i) party candidates who have filed for statewide office this cycle is a hopeful running under a would-be new ballot line called Tea. As in Tea Party.
(This isn’t the same thing as the T.E.A./Taxed Enough Already line considered by [...]

The movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party. It is aiming for a hostile takeover.
By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE

On Feb. 9, 2009, Mary Rakovich, a recently laid-off automotive engineer, set out for a convention center in Fort Myers, Fla. with protest signs, a cooler of water and the courage of [...]

New York Post
By JENNIFER FERMINO
Last Updated: 10:19 AM, August 16, 2010
Middle-class New Yorkers would take a big hit in the wallet if Congress fails to extend former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts — with some forking over almost double what other middle-income Americans are paying, according to a new study.
On the Upper East Side, [...]

Capitol Confidential | Friday, August 13, 2010 at 10:08 PM
by Casey Seiler
And prompts a flurry of press releases from New York GOP candidates. The president spoke about an hour ago at the Iftar Dinner celebrating Ramadam at the White House. (Let’s pause now to note that President Bush hosted the same Ramadan celebration a few [...]