Morgan Freeman discusses his support for President Obama and blames the political right for much of the gridlock in government. VIEW VIDEO

WASHINGTON There is tension between the traditional conservative GOP and the anti-spending Tea Party over the role of defense spending. The New York Times reports: Those differences were on display Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where the traditional Republican who now leads the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Howard P. McKeon, fought back against proposed cuts […]

Michelle Bachman was quite tame in her Tea Party rebuttal, still it was an insult to the 6 people who died in Tuscon and the Congresswoman who was shot in the face to have her speak. Two years ago Bachman called for Americans to be “armed and dangerous” on the issue of energy tax. She […]

TENNESSEE The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers: The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred […]

ARIZONA –Republic district chairman for district 20, Anthony Miller has quit his post due to threats from the Tea Party. The Arizona Republic reports: Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that […]

Jared Loughner may not have attended a Tea Party rally or registered with any Tea Party groups, but he shares several similarities with the Tea Party movement. The first obviously is his anger against the government. His violent act reflected the anger against government for health care, and immigration symbolized by Sarah Palin’s placement of […]

Judson Phillips, the leader of Tea Party Nation has called the NAACP a “liberal hate group” on his website. The Huffington Post Reports: Judson Phillips, head of Tea Party Nation, recently released his picks for 2010’s “top five liberal hate groups.” Among them is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a selection […]

The NAACP says the tea party movement provides a platform for “anti-Semites, racists and bigots.” “The Tea Party movement has unleashed a still inchoate political movement who are in their numerical majority, angry middle-class white people who believe their country, their nation, has been taken from them,” reads the report, posted Wednesday on a National […]

Another GIANT word video from Jay Smooth, on why you should never trust a politician who says they’re “just like you.”

From TheRoot.com: They were armed to the teeth. They were mad. They gathered at public buildings, guns tucked into their waistlines, demanding limited governmental authority and the right to self-determination.

Could a new African American political movement be on the rise to counter the Tea Party Movement? The National Action Network took place this weekend and promised a 12-month action plan. Those involved came together and talked for two hours in a forum broadcast by TV One at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. […]