Back in 1994, after the Republicans won control of both houses of Congress, there was some discussion of defunding public broadcasting. However, talk was pretty much all that happened. The CPB launched a 2-pronged advertising offensive on their affiliates whose message could be summed up by the following catch phrases. If public broadcasting doesn’t do [...]

I read a number of articles over the weekend that had the same basic theme – not only do the tea party followers not like elites, they positively love ignorance. The general conclusion is that the tea party movement is filled with people suspicious of anyone smarter than they are, which is pretty much everyone [...]