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2010: the Year of the Tea Party

Looking back on 2010, we'll all remember what a strange year it was. But while replete with iPads, vuvuzelas, Lady Gaga outfits, earthquakes, treacherous winter storms, Old Spice

By Wes Messamore

December 28, 2010

Pat Robertson says legalize marijuana

To the shock of commentators across the political and religious spectrum, conservative Christian televangelist, Pat Robertson actually told his television viewers earlier this week that "criminalizing marijuana... not a

By Wes Messamore

December 24, 2010

Will the Tea Party change anything?

"I think it's eerily like 1994. Not much will change." That's what Rich Hamblen told me about the 2010 midterm elections on our way

By Wes Messamore

December 21, 2010

CNN and Tea Party Express to host GOP presidential debate in 2011

With Republicans anxious to find a leader who can unify their party and mount a successful challenge to President Obama for the White House, CNN and the Tea Party Express

By Wes Messamore

December 18, 2010

CNN and Tea Party Express to host GOP presidential debate in 2011

An Independent perspective on the tax cut debate

The partisan lines in the debate over extending Bush's tax cuts are clear at this point: (most) Democrats want tax cuts for the middle and lower class, but

By Wes Messamore

December 11, 2010

An Independent perspective on the tax cut debate

Reenvisioning California's prison system

What if California's prison crisis would end - its overcrowding would ease, its spiraling prison costs would settle, and its streets would become much safer for law-abiding citizens

By Wes Messamore

December 7, 2010

Reenvisioning California's prison system

The Supreme Court grapples with California's prison crisis

California's prisons are so overcrowded and their conditions so appalling, that the Supreme Court may rule against Governor Schwarzenegger after hearing oral arguments in Schwarzenegger v. Plata. In

By Wes Messamore

December 4, 2010

The Supreme Court grapples with California's prison crisis

Gary Johnson tests Florida waters for presidential bid

You've heard of Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal, and Chris Christie, but you may not even recognize the name Gary Johnson. Like the first three, he was a Republican

By Wes Messamore

November 30, 2010

Gary Johnson tests Florida waters for presidential bid

Officials discover second San Diego drug tunnel

In San Diego, US and Mexican officials have discovered a sophisticated, cross-border tunnel which the drug cartel has been using to transport cannabis from Mexico over the US border into

By Wes Messamore

November 27, 2010

Officials discover second San Diego drug tunnel

Debate heats up over Bush tax cuts

Commonly referred to as the "Bush tax cuts," the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 cut taxes on personal income, the estate tax, dividends, and

By Wes Messamore

November 23, 2010

Ron Paul refuses to join Tea Party Caucus

Senator-elect Rand Paul actually came up with the original idea for a Tea Party Caucus in Congress. Even before he stood up on stage to accept his party's

By Wes Messamore

November 20, 2010

Ron Paul refuses to join Tea Party Caucus

Tea Party Nation founder: TSA scanners and body searches are abusive, appalling, and unconstitutional

In an exclusive interview with Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, which hosted the first National Tea Party convention in Nashville, I learned that the Tea Party movement

By Wes Messamore

November 16, 2010

Tea Party Nation founder: TSA scanners and body searches are abusive, appalling, and unconstitutional