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3pm EDT update

Maine: Bangor: 300 protested - “People are fed up,” said Lois Bloomer. “We’re taxed enough. I hope our politicians are paying attention.” Alabama: Montgomery: More than 1,000 protest - Small businessman Steve Primavera carried a sign saying “Stimulus: The Audacity of Dope.” Washington, D.C.: Tax protesters threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the White House on...

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Midday update

Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh: 1,000 rally - “It’s an anti-big-government rally,” said Jerry Smith, 51, of Hampton. “The main focus is spending and taxing, and neither party has distinguished itself from wanting to limit this.” … Philadelphia: 200 people have gathered at Center City’s Love Park - “You most likely don’t know what socialism is,”...

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Beware Typical Bogus Newsies

The Left’s reaction to Tax Day Tea Party events has been pure Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals: Ridicule. But in the Chicago socialist’s day, the tool kit did not include embedding bogus newsies at opposition events. Beware such chicanery today. From DKos via MM: We’re going to ask open ended questions that seem to have a slight conservative bent to (hopefully) get them to open up and just...

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Live blogging Wed.

Silence Dogood introducing myself - I’ve been invited to live-blog here tomorrow. You may know me from the anti-collectivist blog The Union News … or from “the unanimous Declaration of Independence of the Free People of the united States of America” that was linked last week. Thank you for actively resisting the Collectivist...