"In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'tak..." — Matt Taibbi

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.