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...party enthusiasts claim that the tea parties were supposedly a spontaneous, nonpartisan, grassroots movement fashioned after the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, when disgruntled colonists tossed tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation. The only problem is that the tea parties of Tax Day 2009 were neither spontaneous nor, in fact, very much related to the original tea party...
...were to ignore the fact that President Obama’s stimulus bill cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans in one of the largest tax cuts in American history, it is not apt to declare the current situation a throwback to the Hanoverians. Rather, what the protesters are experiencing might be called taxation “with” representation. However, to claim that one is not being represented because one does not approve of the actions of a government endorsed by the majority of the electorate is to protest democracy itself...
...SLAM held a hunger strike to promote higher wages for Harvard’s security guards. Consequently, campus debate shifted from whether the security guards deserved larger salaries to whether the strike was justified. After some strikers were hospitalized, the security guards asked SLAM to cease its protest...
...Colombian guerrilla violence and Chávez suggesting, as a result, that Obama was an "ignoramus." To many observers it was a toss-up whether Chávez - who has pledged that he and his leftist allies in the region will not sign the gathering's final declaration, to protest the fact that communist Cuba is still not invited to these summits - would upbraid Obama in Port of Spain or, given Obama's international popularity, reach out to him. But they shared a warm handshake Friday night, during which Obama tried his Spanish (mucho gusto, or "pleased to meet...
...Still, as the courts wrapped up their second day, few observers think the trial itself will generate much protest in Pakistan or worsen the already hostile diplomatic relationship with Pakistan. The rhetoric might have been stronger than usual, but it's no different from what Indian commentators have been talking about for years - Pakistan's attempts to destabilize India with bomb blasts rather than as through conventional warfare. "The involvement of Pakistan is documented very clearly," says Ajai Sahni, head of the South Asia Terrorism Portal. The only difference in this case is the level of detail. Nikam alleged that...