WATCH: LIVESTREAM OF TEA PARTY ACTION CONFERENCE

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On Saturday, the Tea Party Action Conference will be livestreamed on Breitbart.tv beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET and ending at 8:30 p.m. ET. The conference will take place at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, VA.

The event, "Raising Our Game: Winning Strategies," will feature co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots Jenny Beth Martin, Rep-elect David Brat (R-VA), former Gov. Jim Gilmore (R-VA), Frederick Douglass Republicans founder K. Carl Smith and others.

http://new.livestream.com/teapartypatriotslive/TPAC2014

Obama expands government benefits for gay couples

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the Supreme Court struck down a law barring federal recognition of gay marriages, the Obama administration granted an array of new benefits Friday to same-sex couples, including those who live in states where gay marriage is against the law.

The new measures range from Social Security and veterans benefits to work leave for caring for sick spouses. They are part of President Barack Obama's efforts to expand whatever protections he can offer to gays and lesbians even though more than half of the states don't recognize gay marriage. That effort has been confounded by laws that say some benefits should be conferred only to couples whose marriages are recognized by the states where they live, rather than the states where they were married.

Aiming to circumvent that issue, the Veterans Affairs Department will start letting gay people who tell the government they are married to a veteran to be buried alongside them in a national cemetery, drawing on the VA's authority to waive the usual marriage requirement.

http://goo.gl/VMWQEX

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Red-Baiting and Score-Settling in Conservatives’ Responses to Thomas Piketty’s Book

May 8, 2014

NEIL H. BUCHANAN

By now, nearly everyone has heard of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by the French economist Thomas Piketty. That book, to say nothing of Piketty himself, has become a phenomenon unrivaled in at least the last half-century of U.S. political discourse. The book arrives at a moment when the economics profession, in large part driven by Piketty’s earlier body of work (co-authored with his frequent collaborators Emmanuel Saez and Peter Diamond), has finally started to allow discussions of economic inequality to tiptoe back into polite conversation.

The book’s seismic impa

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Rand Paul: 'Join Me in Challenging Gov't Surveillance Program'

BY FOX NEWS INSIDER //JUN 09 2013 // 12:23PM

AS SEEN ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS WALLACE

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a staunch defender of civil liberties, suggested on Fox News Sunday that the government’s surveillance program goes too far. Paul, who’s a member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said, “We’re not talking about going after a terrorist – I’m all for that. Get a warrant; go after a terrorist or a murderer or a rapist. But don’t troll through a billion phone records every day.”

“That is unconstitutional. It invades our privacy,” Paul stated.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/09/rand-paul-vows-challenge-feds-surveillance-program-supreme-court-level