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Democracy and Power 114:  The Power Players

The 9/12 Remember in November March on Washington is rapidly approaching.  Many asked all summer, "Where are the t-shirts?"   Well, the t-shirts are here, they sold out several times - and we've just restocked in time for the march.&nb

The American people were told by the Obama administration that this would be the “summer of recovery.” Joe Biden notoriously claimed that "you're going to see, come the spring, net increase in jobs every month." Thus far, the economy has lost a total of 283,000 jobs this summer alone.

NIck Gillespie, editor and chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com, interviewed Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe today to discuss the Tea Party movement, the 2010 elections and the possibility of real change coming to Washington this November.

Rod Beckstrom, critically acclaimed author of the business management book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, told NPR "he was surprised to learn his 2006 book was a hit with Tea Partiers — but that it made sense."

Today's Rasmussen report reveals that Dino Rossi, FreedomWorks PAC Champion of Freedom, now leads the Washington race for U.S. Senate over incumbent Democrat Patty Murray, 48-46%.

USA Today reports that a record number of Americans—one in six—are now dependent on government anti-poverty programs. Since the recession began in December 2007, the enrollment and cost of government programs have grown at an alarming rate.

Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow, Fox News contributor, and FreedomWorks fellow has a great new piece up at FoxNews.com on the baseless claims that Glenn Beck supporters are racist and the true intentions of NAACP President Ben Jealous:

The first major newspaper review by John Coyne of The Washington Times calls Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto an "ambitious plan indeed, but drawn up by two competent architects." This high praise follows the book's sudden climb to number one on The Washington Post non-fiction best seller list.