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From Stephen Elliott
For a group of people who likes to claim that liberals are constantly playing the victim, the Tea Party sure screams like a little baby when anyone dares point out their many and varied issues.
The latest people to face the foot-stamping tirades of Tea Partiers everywhere are Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller (no relation) now both formerly of NPR.
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Why do people think being a Tea Party Patriot means missing out on all the fun when it comes to sex?
Over at The Awl, Maud Newton asks how scared we should be of groups like the Hutaree militia, which was recently broken up by the FBI for planning attacks on law enforcement.
On the one hand, she says, “When the Tea Party kicks you out of its massive tent, and neighboring militias dismiss you as a cult, you might just be out there on the fringiest fringe in Fringeville.”
On the other hand, she provides a terrifying catalog of militia-tastic things that are so close to the heart of our government that it almost makes me want to start a conspiracy theory about the conspiracy theorists.
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David Aaronnovitch’s survey of global conspiracy theories ably debunks chestnuts old and new, but avoids closer analysis of what inspires them in the first place.