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Will Collier: Thoughts on a Tea Party manifesto

What is the Tea Party’s Manifesto? Excerpt: A Tea Party Manifesto should have no more than ten items, and each one should be a clear, achievable goal. No fair putting in platitudes like “fix the financial system,” that’s too much like hopey-changitude, the point here is to be practical and specific. Some suggestions: 1. A moratorium on bailouts, whether for Wall Street bankers,...

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The look on your face…

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How-to from the Orlando Moms

Helpful tips for a successful event: Great ideas from the folks who organized the highly successful event in Orlando last week. I love their music idea and this quote, “We chose not to have politicians speak at our event because it was our opinion that politicians have unlimited forums to make their platform known, this is a day for them to listen and for the people to be...

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A potpourri of Tea Party ideas

In no particular order, I’ve been emailed these interesting and thought-provoking Tea Party suggestions: Organize a clean-up crew and have them in place to keep trash picked up during and after the event.  The person who sent this idea said you don’t want to leave your event site looking like DC after the inauguration. ...

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Please report permit issues!

Over the last few days, we are hearing from a number of local Tea Party organizers that local government officials are acting to deny them permits. I leave it up to attorneys to decide whether government officials have the right to deny you your constitutional rights to peacefully assemble by imposing burdensome regulations on that right, and further denying that you have jumped through enough hoops to...