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...This Tea Party Started Why is it that TIME's photomontage of members of the Tea Party movement did not contain even one image of what recent polls have shown to be the average Tea Party member: rural, older, white and male [March 1]? These photos were misleading. Kathleen Austin Chicago...
...Many of the Tea Party movement's gripes are common complaints about government. But let's not sugarcoat what the people are at the core of this phenomenon: ultra-nationalist, right-wing Christian, militant, antigovernment, disproportionately Southern, overwhelmingly white, prone to conspiracy theories and slanderous toward a liberal African American over offenses they silently tolerated from a white conservative. Meet the 21st century Klan. Thomas Quinn Los Angeles...
...borders as far away as Europe, Russia and the Far East. The U.N. reckons Marjah has the world's highest concentration of opium production. So Operation Moshtarak is more than a military offensive; it is also the biggest counternarcotics operation ever attempted. It marks a new emphasis by the White House and the Pentagon on choking off the Taliban from their drug funds and ending their support among the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan...
...Democratic majority in the November elections. "My question to them is: When is the right time? If not now, when? If not us, who?" Obama also had harsh words for the health-insurance industry, citing a need for greater accountability and more options for consumers. Under pressure from the White House to wrap up negotiations, Democrats in Congress struggled to iron out lingering differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill...
...William N. White contributed to the reporting of this story...