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With events still in motion, analysts are scrambling to identify and understand the causes behind the wave of protests and revolutionary movements sweeping through the Arab world. U.S. dollar inflation may be among them, and if that's the case, it could only be a matter of time before the root causes of Arab unrest take effect right here in America. Other potential causes for the protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and several other Arab countries, include a lack of civil liberties, indefinite "states

America is getting its first glimpse of Tea Party principles in action. Kentucky's newly-seated Junior Senator, Rand Paul, who kicked off his general election campaign by saying "I have a message from the Tea Party... we've come to take our government back," is now working tirelessly on Capitol Hill to do just that. This week the Kentucky Senator introduced a plan to cut half a trillion dollars from the Federal budget in a single year. While some have called the plan ambitious- the Los Angeles

On the campaign trail in red-state Kentucky, Tea Party candidate Rand Paul would often say in his stump speech that if Americans were serious about cutting the exploding national deficit, then no program, department, or agency should be "off the table." While taking great pains to emphasize that keeping Americans safe should be Washington's number one priority, he argued that there is still plenty of wasteful spending in the defense budget.  Now Rand Paul is a U.S. Senator and a recent poll sho

Looking back on 2010, we'll all remember what a strange year it was. But while replete with iPads, vuvuzelas, Lady Gaga outfits, earthquakes, treacherous winter storms, Old Spice commercials, Taylor Swift, and YouTube videos of that 2-year-old Indonesian baby chain smoking, the single most significant event of 2010 might very well be the mobilization of the Tea Party protests into an electoral machine. The modern (post-Obama) "Tea Party" started as a series of nationwide protests in 2009, focus

Senator-elect Rand Paul actually came up with the original idea for a Tea Party Caucus in Congress. Even before he stood up on stage to accept his party's nomination back in May of this year (uttering those now-famous words "I have a message from the Tea Party...") the Kentucky doctor would stump for a Tea Party Caucus on his campaign stops. Rand Paul's vision was for a caucus that would form a link between grassroots Tea Party leaders around the country and their representative voices in Congr

Does anyone remember that the first Tea Partiers were thousands and thousands of Ron Paul supporters who dumped a record-breaking $6 million into his presidential campaign on December 16, 2007, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party? Since then, the Tea Party “wave” has swept across the country; a wave that Ron Paul’s own son has ridden and credited with helping him land a seat in the United States Senate. Rand Paul ran for Senate in Kentucky as a Republican, keeping the more libertarian and “

Though  the mainstream political press has naturally focused on the stinging  Democratic losses and sweeping Republican gains in last week's  elections, 2010 has proven to be an historic year for third party and  Independent politics in the United States. One  of the primary motifs in media coverage of this year's elections has  been the public’s deep discontent with both the Democratic and  Republican parties.  In poll after poll, record numbers of  Americans opted to identify themselves as In

In 2007, Ron Paul captivated grassroots activists everywhere with his darkhorse campaign for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. He was an obscure, ten-term Congressman from Texas who had never gotten a single bill passed and who was called "Dr. No" on Capitol Hill for frequently ending up on the losing end of 434-1 votes. Yet, his message of fiscal conservativism (or really his record of actually legislating fiscal conservatism instead of just talking about it on the campaign trail

Either this has been one of the strangest elections in recent history, or else having the Internet around has simply made it possible to nationally ruminate over the strange goings-on in elections throughout the country. Here are ten of the weirdest moments during the 2010 midterm elections: 1. Demon Sheep Ad Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee to challenge U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer ran the now infamous "Demon Sheep Ad" during her Republican primary battle against Tom Campbell. It went vira

In case you missed it, in: California:  Even before potentially taking office, Whitman has unselfishly injected over $150 million of her own money into California’s fledgling campaign industry.  It is anticipated that this money will trickle down until it eventually reaches gardeners and housekeepers. Delaware:  In her latest gaffe, O’Donnell says she could not name a current Senator on the other side of the aisle that she could work with if she were elected to office.  But, according to candi