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Conservatives Find Town Hall Strategy in Leftist Text

By | 08.11.09 | 6:00 am

Michael Patrick Leahy’s self-published conservative manifesto is coming off the presses this week, and not a moment too soon.

“The timing is crucial,” said Leahy, the Nashville, Tenn., activist who founded the Top Conservatives on Twitter hashtag and played another founding role in the anti-tax “Tea Party” movement. “I’m trying More…

We’ll Keep the Red Tea Flying

By | 06.12.09 | 12:32 pm

Eric Kleefeld notices that FreedomWorks’ logo for the Sept. 12, 2009 anti-tax March on Washington appropriates the Communist/left-wing iconography of red fists punching the air. Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks explains:

When you start working here at FreedomWorks, the first book you read is Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals.” We’re

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