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A casually-dressed Sarah Palin talked briefly with POLITICO as she walked through Reagan National Airport on her way out of town after speaking at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the Natonal Mall. Holding her BlackBerry up with one hand, she lamented that the Associated Press had only pegged attendance as "tens of thousands." Asked if there were more than 100,000 people there, Palin said: "Oh yeah." Smiling broadly, the former governor described the event as inspirational and good-naturedly chided a reporter for not attending. Told that there was some chatter online about the prospect of a Palin-Beck presidential ticket,...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- About 16 busloads of Tea Party Movement supporters from the Pittsburgh area headed to a rally headed by Fox News' Glenn Beck Saturday. "We are speaking out. We are uniting in Western Pa. Fourteen-percent of all people say they're Tea Party members, and 45 percent of Pennsylvanians say Tea Parties are good for the nation," Tea Party supporter Patty Weaver told WTAE Channel 4 Action News Saturday. Organizers estimated that about 900 people from the Pittsburgh area headed to the rally in Washington, D.C., which featured speakers Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The rally...

Ron Paul has some surprising news for the Tea Party: You’re being taken for a ride. At least this is what many libertarians like Ron Paul believe when they see someone like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin trying to lead the Tea Party at the “restoring honor” rally this weekend. In fact, Ron Paul believes, if you’re looking for real freedom, you should really go back to the core of the constitution and the bill of rights, which Beck and Palin do not fully endorse when you really look at their beliefs. Whether it be Palin’s support for starting more...

A Washington rally that will be hosted by Fox TV’s Glenn Beck and feature conservative power broker Sarah Palin drew the wrath on Friday of the chairman of the House Democratic campaign committee. Chris Van Hollen rejected organizers’ assurances that the “Restoring Honor Rally” — expected to draw thousands of members of the conservative Tea Party movement — would be “non-political.” In fact, Van Hollen predicted the rally would be partisan and could turn off many voters. The event, to be held on Saturday on the National Mall — between the U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial — is billed as...

The growing opposition to plans for a Muslim cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero have prompted some on the Left to speak out in defense of religious freedom in America. On August 16th, pundit Keith Olbermann took opponents of the project to task in his "Special Comment" segment: "'They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then...

The National Park Service said Thursday that it has approved the permit for the Aug. 28 Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Park Service spokesman Bill Line said the permit indicates that organizers expect 300,000 people to attend. Line said it is a "fixed rally" without a march. The rally will go from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The park service is processing a permit request for a counter demonstration and rally by the Rev. Al Sharpton...

Ashley Kooser of Bailey Coach in York is handling reservations for buses going to the Glenn Beck rally featuring Sarah Palin in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28. The last time she saw such a big regional response for an event was, ironically enough, President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2008. She said the bus drivers making the-early morning trek to Washington that morning have been warned of likely congestion. "They're expecting a lot of people," Kooser said. "A lot of traffic." Kooser said Bailey Coach arranged for the buses in response to people on the Fox TV host's website writing of...

As Philadelphians know, the second most significant event in human history occurred right here in 1787. That was when the Founding Fathers gathered in Independence Hall (and the City Tavern, among other watering holes) to write the United States Constitution. One day, as the Convention was finishing its work, the story goes that a woman stopped old Ben Franklin in the street. “Well, Dr. Franklin,” she supposedly asked, “what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” Franklin’s choice of words was deliberate. The Founders emphatically did not want to create...

The fight to preserve the liberty of all citizens in this nation is a fight that should be actively and prudently fought. Liberty is not a tangible thing. However, the American people would be at a loss without it. And that is where we are headed. America faces a series of challenges in the near and distant future, challenges that will affect not only you and I, but all Americans, Rich or Poor, Liberal or Conservative, Old or Young. Yet some Americans seem to not understand this, they do not understand that the impending end of freedom in America will...

IN 1773, Sam Adams led the Boston Sons of Liberty, thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, onto three British freighters, seized their cargo of imported Indian tea and threw it into the harbor. They were afraid that the tea, unexpectedly cheap because it had been exempted from the usual British reexport tariff, would tempt Massachusetts consumers to abandon their principled resistance to taxation without representation. A later historian jokingly referred to the event as the “Boston Tea Party.” Today, anti-big-government agitators are channeling their ancestors’ ire as they build a Tea Party movement of their own. Some pundits speculate that the...

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville Europeans who fail to understand our conservative grassroots politics fail to recognize the American identity deeply rooted in the quintessential history of separation from Europe, representative governance, free-enterprise capitalism, and faith-based sentiments. To the point: European View: Last week’s The Economist offered a typical European view of homegrown American conservatism with an unflattering cover and title, “What’s Wrong with America’s Right.” The weekly’s title could only come from a feigned European center point of view—the mirror reflection of...

Does anyone recall the first weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency? He was everywhere on the media all the time. His constant use of TelePrompters became an instant joke, suggesting he could not say anything unless it was scripted. Indeed, listening to him try to speak without them is a painful process of a very slow selection of words and very long pauses in between. After his first press conference he stopped holding them until 309 days later when he addressed the oil spill in the Gulf. It was such a lame performance that his advisors apparently thought a speech from...

Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. would approve of the tea party movement, says conservative historian Lee Edwards, who just finished a book about Buckley. “Bill Buckley embodied the idea of blending the main streams of conservatism – traditional conservatives, libertarian conservatives, social conservatives, neo-conservatives, national security conservatives and so forth,” Edwards told Newsmax.TV. “He always said politics is a matter of addition not subtraction. I think he would reach out with open arms to the tea party movement.” (VIDEO AT LINK) Edwards sees many similarities between the tea partyers and Buckley. They both are/were anti-establishment; they both support(ed) limited...

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I'm just curious. If you are in the boat I am in(I can only attend one and I have to choose) which one are you choosing? If you can't attend either, but you wish you could but had to choose one, which one would you choose? If you are lucky(or prepared) enough to attend both, which one are you more looking forward to?

We’ll admit up-front that the title of our forthcoming book,“Over the Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane,” indulges in some rhetorical imprecision: conservatives in the United States are of course not really insane in any clinical or legal sense, and we are not suggesting they undergo sanity hearings to determine if their rights should be suspended. We mean “insane” in the common-sense meaning of the word -- having taken leave of their senses. What other word, after all, can properly describe the behavior of people who adamantly insist on believing things that are provably untrue? Einstein facetiously...

“Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.”

Liberals are portraying the Tea Party movement as fostering violence and sedition. During a recent appearance on NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show," Time columnist Joe Klein said that much of the heated political rhetoric, "especially the [statements] coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious." Of course, sedition is a crime. It is the revolt or inciting of revolt against the authority of the government. Mr. Klein's message was clear: Conservative critics of President Obama are committing treason, especially the Tea Partiers who express their disapproval through rallies...

Chris Bass, who is 36 years old, made an early fortune on Wall Street and now lives in Liberty Lake, near Spokane Washington, where he chosen another line of work. Bass is promoting nine measures on the November ballot that seek to rein in government power, ranging from invalidating the new federal health care law to lifting government gun controls. Bass has never filed a state ballot initiative, let alone nine at one time, but like other Tea Party activists, he says he is disillusioned with government and wants to make a change. In neighboring Idaho, Alanna Grimm, a stay-at-home...

I only uploaded those pictures here which from what I have seen are unique. I am so glad I made the trip to the capital to attend this event. I will only put a handful of pictures on display here because they are so large, but feel free to use any of these. Browse my profile on take back usa for the rest of the photos. After seeing this sign, I quietly hummed the teapot song to myself, I couldn't help it. This was incredibly creative. Captain America's flag was so big he had to anchor it to his waist....