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Most people only see the public faces of the Tea Party Patriots: those doing television interviews, appearing on the covers of magazines, waving from the steps of private jets …

“Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.” Given the level of wackiness that seems to have afflicted this third planet from the sun, Jack Nicholson's immortal line …

Roman Landa, a former mortgage broker, in Glenview, Ill., May 25, 2010. Landa suspended his job search in frustration early this winter after applying for nearly 700 positions in …

Remember the old joke about some sharpie who takes innocents by “selling” them the Brooklyn Bridge? By the time the poor guy finds out he was taken, the crook …

Charlene Scott cheered and chanted with the hundreds thronging Philadelphia’s Love Park during Saturday's protest against conservative Republican onslaughts seeking to slaughter what remains of the living-standard comforts enjoyed …

There is no shortage of headlines with a variation on a theme such as: “Tea Party Declares War on Military Spending,” “Tea Partiers Say Defense In Mix For Budget …

BP's Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is commonly referred to as the Gulf oil spill, but liquid oil wasn't the only hydrocarbon that gushed out of the Macondo well for 84 …

(Photo: Mykl Roventine / Flickr) “Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.” Given the level of wackiness that seems to have afflicted this third …

The number of workers unemployed less than 5 weeks is fewer than at any point in the 90s. The unemployment rate edged down to 8.9 percent in …

Polls indicate that many Republican voters still believe that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) …