What is TeaPartyConnect.com?

Over time, it became increasingly clear there needed to be a place for people to either connect with a Tea Party near them, or learn how to start their own.

Additionally, leaders of Tea Party groups needed a place to share news & ideas, muster national support, or just network with other Tea Party groups.

TeaPartyConnect was created to address those needs!

Why TeaPartyConnect.com?


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."

Thomas Jefferson

Hear Michael Berry daily at 950KPRC.com (3:005:00, Central Time) or at KTRH.com (5:007:00, Central Time) Visit him on Facebook or at his blog: “http://ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html

Turn your volume down. This gets a little loud.

On second thought, turn the volume up so your neighbor can hear it too!

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Are you involved yet? Have you helped out a campaign with your time, your talents or your money? Have you decided to grow a backbone and stand up instead of running scared? A lot of people have already, but they would welcome your help too. Join a tea party, volunteer to work for a candidate, call your friends and tell them how you feel, email this video to everyone you know, or just send them to www.TeaPartyConnect.com! We’ll get them educated and fired up!

Good job Michael Berry! Keep it up!

In his book “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962) Milton Friedman (1912-2006) advocated minimizing the role of government in a free market as a means of creating political and social freedom.

An excerpt from an interview with Phil Donahue in 1979.

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Drudge Report Presents Summer Snapshots

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  • Big Boy Pants: $55.00
  • Girls Trail Bike: $175.00
  • Athletic Shoes: $85.00
  • Letting Putin Make You Look Nerdy: PRICELESS!

Oh, Snap! I can’t get the song below out of my head now that I’ve seen the photos above.

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AP Photo: Barack Obama

The Birthplace Issue has been percolating since before the 2008 election and in that time, it has bubbled just at the surface for many citizens. For just how many citizens has never been measured until recently when 60 Minutes teamed up with Vanity Fair to poll 1,000 Americans. What they found was astounding because 24% of the respondents said Barack Obama was either not born in the United States  or they didn’t know where he was born. Additionally, the Pew Research Center recently published the results of a poll showing that 18% of Americans believe Obama is Muslim.

Brian Williams interviewed the President while in New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the issue erupted at the highest level. An annoyed Obama lashed out at “a mechanism, a network of misinformation” churning out there in the “new media”. Clearly referring to the Internet, talk radio and FOX, Obama sought to downplay and discount the questions:
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The Daily Caller reports:

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), one of the chief authors of the healthcare law, suggested Tuesday he did not read the entire piece of legislation.

Speaking at a forum in his home state, Baucus and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were asked by an audience member if they had read the whole bill and “if not, that is the most despicable, irresponsible thing.”

“I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the healthcare bill,” Baucus said, according to the Flathead Beacon. “You know why? It’s statutory language. … We hire experts.”


Caroline Baum posted a great article on Bloomberg.com on August 15th, 2010 and it is instructive.

First, she reminds each of us that We, The People give Congress the power to levy and collect taxes. However:

There’s nothing in there about carving out special exemptions for certain individuals or groups; about using tax credits to achieve socially desirable outcomes, such as getting married and having children; or about doling out earmarks in an implicit exchange for campaign contributions.

How can we get Congress out of the tax-favor business?

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Backstory: Todd Starnes reported:

A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama.

Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”

It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.

And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.

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Today on WMOX, we discussed the History Channel’s new show, Jefferson. One of the many interesting facts about the author of the Declaration of Independence was the three accomplishments he was proud of that he had placed on his tombstone. They are (1) The Declaration of Independence, (2) the Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom and (3) Founding of the University of Virginia.

The Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom is powerful and short. Its preamble is in the style of the Declaration and worth reading. I have provided a link or check out this short but powerful prose.
The letter declining an invitation to attend a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is also very powerful. This phrase about the 4th is something we should all remember each year: “For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” For full text of the letter to Roger Weightman.

Be sure watch or DVR this show when it comes again on the History Channel. In the mean time checkout some the material the History Channel has pulled together on our most thoughtful Founder.

- The Professor

Dear Mr. President,

You have now been in office long enough to know that the honeymoon was over months ago. You are also an adult and have lived long enough to know that at some point we are all judged by our actions and our performance. We teach our kids that the people they hang out with affects their character and that as responsible adults, they must be willing to stand and face the consequences of their actions.

Reuters reported that you attacked Bush’s “disastrous” economic policies again and this time in President Bush’s home State of Texas. Just so you know, this type of behavior is not flattering to you and it falls far beneath the Office of The President. Here’s just a little bit of the story to refresh your memory:

At a fund-raising event for Democrats in Dallas, where Bush now lives, Obama said the former president’s “disastrous” policies had driven the U.S. economy into the ground and turned budget surpluses into deficits.

Obama defended his repeated references to Bush’s policies, saying they were necessary to remind Americans of the weak economy he inherited from Bush in January 2009.

“The policies that crashed the economy, that undercut the middle class, that mortgaged our future, do we really want to go back to that, or do we keep moving our country forward?” Obama said at another fund-raising event in Austin, referring to Bush’s eight years as president.

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The strands of the Internet hum with confusion, anger, and message manipulation from an increasingly desperate Left.  Their last-ditch strategy involves brewing up a petri dish full of viral memes about the conservative grassroots, in the hope of weakening their resolve, and perhaps frightening a few independents into staying home in November.  They hope to nourish the disgust of the “pox on both their houses” types into lethargy.

It’s not going to work.  The next two elections are vitally important, and we remain focused.  I hope we’ll also remember the lesson that all elections are important.  Today’s crisis is the output of many generations of error.

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The AP reported today that the total debt of this country is now $13,310,379,000,000.00.

A staggering sum of money, so let’s try to make this number a little more understandable.

According to the 2009 IRS Data Book, there were 144,103,000 tax returns filed in 2009, but according to Scott A. Hodge of The Tax Foundation, 36% of those filing returns owed no taxes or received more money back in tax refunds than they actually paid into the system. This leaves 92,225,920 households in the U.S. to carry the tax burden PLUS pay for all of the credits that went to those with a negative tax liability.

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Words mean things and Reagan said them better than anyone else.

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H/T: Breitbart.tv

I believe I made the position of TeaPartyConnect.com clear previously. But I guess that position puts me at odds with The President who apparently backs the building of a mosque on Ground Zero. Regardless of the headline which AP used, it is not “near” Ground Zero. By virtue of part of the plane going through this building, it is Ground Zero.)

I know that at the time I write this Barack Obama is backtracking from his comments as fast as he can. But the fact is, it is perfect clear to me that he believes what he said originally.

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I believe his comments stand on their own and I probably do not need to add any additional comments, but I will make one observation:

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The AP reports that while in Milwaukee today, the President said “Don’t give in to fear, Let’s reach for hope.

The story continued:

…he warned of reliving a dreadful past, saying Republicans want voters “to be afraid of the future.”

“The worst thing we could do is to go back to the very same policies that created this mess in the first place,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Wisconsin. “In November, you’re going to have that choice.”

Sometimes, I just can’t fathom how stupid Obama must think the American people really are.

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The Tax Foundation has launched a Bush-era tax cuts calculator at www.MyTaxBurden.org, which allows taxpayers to compare their 2011 federal income tax liabilities under three scenarios: if all the Bush-era tax cuts expire completely at the end of this year, if they’re all extended into 2011 or made permanent, and if President Obama’s budget is adopted, which includes a combination of expirations and extensions.

Check it out here: http://www.mytaxburden.org

Although this is just a tax estimator, it purports to show how you will fare under the three potential scenarios described above.

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Who Created TeaPartyConnect.com?

TeaPartyConnect.com was created by a member of a local Tea Party after discovering there was a serious lack of information regarding the leadership, management, promotion, and legal questions facing Tea Party groups.

TeaPartyConnect.com was created to work with other Tea Party Groups across the country to consolidate and present this important information in a credible way. The information presented was collected from various sources and represents the collective experiences of hundreds of individual Tea Party Members.