<div id="subtitle">Analysis: 'Tea Party' coalition, an exercise in democracy but is it society-changing movement?</div><div><p>First, the independent Ross Perot contingent. Then, the liberal "netroots" mobilization. Now, the conservative "tea party" coalition.</p><p>No doubt this is democracy at work, a quintessential part ...

<div id="subtitle">With Massachusetts win, Tea Party activists causing establishment candidates heartburn</div><div><p>A once-dismissed loose confederation of Tea Party activists opposed to big government, bailouts and higher taxes is causing heartburn for establishment candidates across the country.</p><p>They swept into Massachusetts with ...

...compulsory learning never sticks in the mind.<br>?Plato<br><br>I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.<br>?Thomas Jefferson<br><br>The American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

<div id="subtitle">Ross Perot Jr. to join Dell's board after $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems</div><div><p>Computer maker Dell Inc. said Friday that Ross Perot Jr., son of former presidential candidate Ross Perot Sr. and chairman of Perot Systems Corp. before Dell bought the company this ...