Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin
Big Government is the sacred enemy that animates the Tea Party uniting it in opposition to death panels, socialists, gun-control advocates, unions, Obamacare, deficits, and so on…
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Florida Gov Cozies to Local Tea Party Xenophobes
Gov. Rick Scott broke with tradition to announce his budget in front of tea partiers in a central Florida church.
Read MoreTea Party Needs a History Lesson on Islam in America
Tea Partier Phillip Dennis disputes Obama’s version of US history. Guess who’s right?
Read MoreNo Democracy in Huckabee’s Orientalist Egypt
Given the similarities between the protests in Egypt and the rhetoric at Tea Party protests it’s ironic to experience Mike Huckabee’s double standard.
Read MoreBeck’s Historian Bringing Seminar to Congressional Tea Partiers
Straining the constitution through a biblical grinder.
Read MoreBig Mo-Publican Primary Watch 2012 Begins
Will both Huntsman and Romney run?
Read MoreMichele Bachmann Launches Constitutional Fundamentalist Seminars
Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus seminars will require a citation of ‘chapter and verse’ for all proposed legislation. Sound familiar?
Read MoreGOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”
Tea party favorite courts the religious right.
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Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style
The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
Read MoreThe Constitution, the Bible and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Divide
Originalists spontaneously amend the Constitution.
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