Owl: Tea Party Spawned by Tobacco Years Ago, Trotted Out by Koch Brothers a Decade Later + Tea Party RECAP

Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers “A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.Far from a …

Penguin: Peter Peterson & Gang Pressing for Destruction of Safety Net — Time to Roll Out The Chicago Plan and Stick It to Wall Street

Does anybody in the federal government actually read and think anymore? Wall Street’s Plan to Push Obama to Betray Those Who Elected Him Through its lobbying group Third Way and media mouthpieces, Wall Street is determined to destroy the social safety net. The safety net is the glory of America and the unending nightmare of …

Review: Independents Rising: Outsider Movements, Third Parties, and the Struggle for a Post-Partisan American

Jacqueline S. Salit 3.0 out of 5 stars TIRED — Out of Touch with Substance and Reality,November 10, 2012 I’ve gone through this book, it is a very fast read, in part because there is no real substance here. I list ten better books at the end. If you seek out my summary reviews you …

Jackie Salit: Obama & The Independents — Comment by Robert Steele on Why Independents — and Paulistas and Greens — Remain Irrelevant

Obama and Independents: The Micro, the Macro and the Forest by Jacqueline Salit The Obama campaign team did everything right. That’s the consensus among journalists, consultants, and the political class. I’ve watched some of them literally swoon over maps of the 50 states showing how the President’s campaign surgically identified pockets of “blue voters”, marooned …

Robert Steele: NO LABELS & Americans Elect Fraudulent

Our various editors have been receiving emails from people we all deeply respect.  Below is my response on behalf of the community we represent, but strictly my personal interpretation and cautionary note.  Below was provided in email form to NO LABELS and to the circle being Moon-eized by NO LABELS. NO LABELS and Americans Elect …