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What the Tea Party Could Learn From British Conservatives

(Oct. 22) -- Tea partiers bemoan the swelling federal deficit but offer no ideas for substantive cuts in government spending to bring it down. As I've pointed out before, whenever Republican, tea-party-backed candidates are asked which entitlement programs they'd cut to reduce the deficit, they dodge the question. Not so...

Opinion: A Tea Party Warning for Conservatives

(Sept. 24) -- While some view the Tea Party as a continuation of the Ross Perot movement, it may be better understood as the third wave of modern conservatism (the first being Barry Goldwater's victory over the GOP establishment in 1964, and the second being the rise of the Christian right in the late 1970s).

Democrats Try to Turn the Tables on the Tea Party

(Aug. 5) -- Democrats are providing an interesting wrinkle to the tea party fever sweeping over Red State America. Just as tea partiers have pressed GOP candidates to announce their conservative bona fides, the Democrat National Committee is now challenging Republican office holders and candidates to declare their feelings...

Tea Party Haunting This Year's Netroots Convention

LAS VEGAS (July 23) -- Reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. Or so insist left-wing activists gathered here to buck themselves up amid President Barack Obama's sinking approval ratings, a flailing economic recovery and conventional wisdom -- not to mention historic patterns -- that points to heavy...

Calvin Coolidge Has Become Hero to Tea Partiers

PLYMOUTH, Vt. (July 3) -- In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried,...