Jonathan Rauch, National Journal: But, tea partiers say, if you think moving votes and passing bills are what they are really all about, you have not taken the full measure of their ambition. No, the real point is to change the country’s political culture, bending it back toward the self-reliant, liberty-guarding instincts of the Founders’ era. Winning key congressional seats won’t do that, nor will endorsing candidates. “If you just

Seems our First Amendment may needs some tweaking, according to Stephen Breyer: During an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America this morning, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer addressed the recent controversy over a Florida pastor’s plan to hold a Quran-burning rally on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, saying he wasn’t convinced the First Amendment would protect such an action if the case were brought to the court

But remember, people. Using a word like “fascism” to describe, well, fascism, is overwrought and very, very unhelpful. Best just to pretend that the most tyrannical of our political opponents are good men (and women) who, once you bracket the tyrannical impulses with which they govern, just happen to differ with us on the issues. We can be proud of our forbearance later, at home, while we’re masturbating to our

For the Tea Party Movement Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’. Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and