"We are ... profoundly ignorant. People don't know anything about their own religions. We know little of our own history, let alone our history in context with the rest of…

Dr. Bob Altemeyer, author of the massive 50-year study on the Authoritarian Follower personality, offers his opinion on the Tea Partiers. "Suppose slavery still existed in the United States, but…

Matt Taibbi provides as good a definition as I've read thus far. "Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what…