Mission Statement

The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.

Core Values

Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets


Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to

By Mike O'Sullivan
Los Angeles

Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at the film industry's Academy Awards, Sunday evening, as the rags-to-riches tale set in India earned eight industry honors, known as Oscars, including best movie. Kate Winslet and Sean Penn earned top acting awards.
Slumdog Millionaire was expected to win big. And, it did, earning Oscars for its cinematography, film editing, sound mixing, and bringing two of the golden statuettes to composer A.R. Rahman for his score and an original song.


A.R. Rahman holds Oscar for Best Original Song and Best Original Score for 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Steven Spielberg announced the top award of the evening.

"And, the Oscar goes to Slumdog Millionaire, Christian Colson, producer."

The man behind the movie, Danny Boyle, was named best director.

Slumdog Millionaire was a collaboration between the British filmmaker, an Indian cast and crew and a Hollywood distributor. Backstage, Boyle said joint efforts like this will become more common.


'Slumdog Millionaire' director Danny Boyle backstage at Oscars with Steven Spielberg and movie's producer Christian Colson
"There's all sorts of people that are going to work there. These things are going to come together," Boyle said. "The world's shrinking a bit in a wonderful way and it will benefit from it because, in culture, fusion is a wonderful thing."

The film is set in slums of Mumbai and features two professional actors with a cast of unknown youngsters from the Mumbai slums. Young cast members came to Hollywood for the Oscars.

The story revolves around a teenager who hopes to win riches on a quiz show. Writer Simon Beaufoy, who won the Oscar for his

(inan.info)-voanews-By Carolyn Weaver
New York

New York City has revamped its wedding bureau, the city office where for $60, including the marriage license, a clerk will marry you in a two-minute civil ceremony. Officials say they want to make New York a leading destination for weddings, more popular even than Las Vegas' quickie wedding chapels.

Getting married at “City Hall” used to mean waiting in line in a cramped corridor inside the Municipal Building. Forty thousand people were married there in 2007. The grand new space in a restored 1920s building a few blocks north is the

What:
Preview of the Bob Hope First-Class Commemorative stamp as part of ceremonies to rename the Ellis Island Research Library to the Bob Hope Memorial Library. The stamp will be issued next Spring.

Who:
Linda Hope, Bob Hope’s daughter
Fred Schnettler, Berlin Airlift veteran who witnessed Hope’s first Christmas Show 60 years ago
Eliot L. Engel, U.S. Representative (D-NY)
Katherine C. Tobin, member, U.S. Postal Service Board of

(inan.info)-Mrs. Laura Bush speaks on the phone with Michelle Obama Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008 in the family residence at the White House. Mrs. Bush assured Mrs. Obama that they will enjoy living at the White House, and that it

(inan.info)-Mrs. Laura Bush tastes a sampling of the food at the Hokkaido Marche farmer's market in Makkari Village Tuesday, July 8, 2008, as part of the G-8 Spouses Program. The small village on the northern Japanese island of

(inan.info)-According to an advertisement, T. Boone Pickens says he's been an "oilman" most of his career and believes that we "cannot drill ourselves out of this one". So, he's suggesting other ways to get out of the "strangle-hold" of the foreign oil companies. Hopefully he's right. His website says of him the following: "During his career, the oft-quoted T. Boone Pickens has appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications and on daily business programming on CNBC, CNN, and Fox News. CNBC first coined the term "Oracle of Oil" to reference Pickens and his uncanny accuracy in calling oil price movements. He also has been the

(inan.info)-
President Bush made a statement on North Korea at the White House. Afterwards, he made remarks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. The National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast is hosted by Esperanza, an association that works with more than 5,000 Hispanic churches and ministries committed to raising awareness and

(inan.info)-President George W. Bush presented the President’s Volunteer Service Award to Andrew Barnhill upon arrival in Greer, South Carolina, on Saturday, May 31, 2008. Barnhill, 20, is a sophomore at Furman University and a volunteer with Heller Service Corps. To thank them for making a difference in the lives of others, President Bush honors a local volunteer when he travels throughout the United States. He has

(inan.info)-VOA News-By Susan Logue
Washington

On July 14, Isaac Lidsky, 28, will begin a new job, working as a law clerk in the U.S. Supreme Court. There have been clerks working for the justices for more than a century, but Lidsky will be making history. He will be the first blind law clerk to take on a job that requires a lot of reading. But he doesn't see that as a problem.

"The assistive technology is such that my blindness doesn't slow me down," Lidsky says. "I'm able to do my job productively, so for me it's not an issue."

In his townhouse on Capitol Hill, Lidsky catches up on the latest news from the Supreme Court on the Internet with help from a reading machine.

Lidsky wasn't born visually impaired. He lost his vision gradually during his teens. "I was 13 when I was diagnosed with a retinal degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa," he says. "Two of my three older sisters also have the condition. At the time I didn't realize that I saw any worse than my peers. In retrospect, I