Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged: Part Two Will Likely Hit Theaters Right Before The Election

Jillian Rayfield | February 2, 2012, 4:02PM

Apparently gluttons for more movie critic punishment, the producers of the first Atlas Shrugged movie have announced that production on Part Two will begin in the spring.

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Tea Party

Tea Party Group Calls 'Half Black, Half White' Obama A Skunk

David Taintor | December 12, 2011, 3:17PM

A Kansas tea party group is saying "pee-eww" to President Obama.

Patriot Freedom Alliance, a tea party group in Hutchinson, Kansas, made a statement on its website recently, depicting Obama as a skunk.

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Tennessee

TN Tea Party Prez Sort Of Apologizes For Tweet Calling Barney Frank 'Perverted Sodomite'

Jillian Rayfield | November 30, 2011, 5:57AM

The president of the Tennessee Tea Party apologized for a tweet someone in his group sent out calling Barney Frank a "perverted sodomite," though she added a caveat: "While privately and inwardly I may agree with the commentary, it is completely irresponsible for any one of us to write these kinds of commentaries."

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Michigan Tea Party

Second Michigan Dem Pleads No Contest In Fake Tea Party Scheme

Jillian Rayfield | November 22, 2011, 10:29AM

A former operations director of the Oakland County Democratic Party pleaded no contest to charges that he committed election fraud when he attempted to get fake Tea Party candidates on the Michigan ballot.

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Bill Hemrick

Conservative Investors Sue Over Sham Tea Party TV Network

Jillian Rayfield | November 11, 2011, 6:25AM

A group of conservative investors in Tennessee is suing a California businessman for allegedly conning them into investing in Tea Party HD, a TV channel aimed at tea partiers, that they say turned out to be a scam.

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Michigan

Michigan Dem Pleads No Contest In Fake Tea Party Scheme

Jillian Rayfield | October 20, 2011, 11:07AM

The former chair of the Oakland County Democratic Party pleaded no contest last week to charges that he committed voter fraud last November when attempting to get fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot in order to split the Republican vote.

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Voter Identification

Legal Battles Loom In Fight Over Voter ID Laws

Ryan J. Reilly | September 5, 2011, 7:00AM

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Conservative "investigative reporter" Matthew Vadum caused a real stir last week. As one of the many individuals who proselytizes about the threat of voter fraud and the need for restrictive measures to protect the ballot box, he's generally expected to stick to a predictable script.

The argument usually goes like this: everyone should be able to vote and that voter ID isn't supposed to make it harder for anyone to vote. Also, voter ID efforts aren't partisan, but rather about good government, and that if you have to show your ID to buy liquor or rent a movie from Blockbuster you should have to show it to vote.

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Tom Graves

Tea Party Rep: Bank Should Have Known I Wouldn't Be Able To Repay $2.2 Million Loan

Jillian Rayfield | August 11, 2011, 10:01AM

Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA)

Tea Party aligned Georgia Rep. Tom Graves (R), who castigates Washington for fiscal irresponsibility, reached an out of court settlement Wednesday after he was sued for defaulting on a $2.2 million loan -- which his attorney argued is the bank's fault for lending him the money in the first place.

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Joe Walsh

Tea Party-Backed Rep. Walsh Lists No Child Support Debt On Financial Forms

Susan Crabtree | August 9, 2011, 6:00AM

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea-Party darling who has made a name for himself on the talk show circuit lecturing Democrats to get the nation's finances in order, has been under fire in recent weeks over charges that he's a deadbeat dad, owing more than $100,000 in child support.

Last Thursday, Walsh told constituents at a townhall that he plans to "privately and legally" fight his ex-wife's claims that he owes more than $100,000 in child support, which he called "wildly inaccurate." A recent Chicago Sun-Times article reported that his ex-wife is suing him for $117,000 in unpaid support.

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Tea Party

SC Tea Party Leaders Arrested For Selling Pirated Computer Software

Jillian Rayfield | July 27, 2011, 6:00AM

A Tea Party (or Tea P-Arrrrrr!-ty) leader in South Carolina was arrested Tuesday for allegedly selling pirated versions of Microsoft software, Photoshop, and the Rosetta Stone language programs.

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Tea Party

Tea Partiers Premiering Straight-To-DVD TV Show Set In Colonial America

Jillian Rayfield | June 24, 2011, 2:58PM

James Patrick Riley and Jonathan Wilson, apparently undeterred by the limited success of the last entertainment venture aimed at Tea Partiers, have teamed up to make Courage, New Hampshire, a one-hour drama about Colonial America that premieres Sunday in California.

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Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Pressuring Schools To Teach Constitution Using Controversial Right-Wing Group's Materials

Jon Terbush | May 25, 2011, 1:42PM

America's kids don't know jack about the Constitution, and according to a national Tea Party group, the only way to save them is to have school's teach the nation's founding document with materials provided by a controversial conservative group whose founder is one of Glenn Beck's favorite historians.

Tea Party Patriots, the Georgia-based organization that counts around 1,000 chapters nationwide, is asking its members to pressure schools to teach the Constitution during Constitution Week in September, as they are required to do by a 2004 law. And when schools do teach the founding document, the group is suggesting that they use materials provided by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a group that claims the country and Constitution were, "established by the hand of God."

NCCS's founder, W. Cleon Skousen, became a tea party favorite in recent years when Glenn Beck touted him on his program as an exemplary constitutional scholar. But Skousen's past is marred by accusations that his work is far from accurate, and at times rife with racism.

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