Calling out Conservatives at the Tea Party

This past wave of tea-parties I was honored to give the keynote speech to over 2,500 people at a tea-party in Winston Salem, NC. 

My speech, however, was distinctly different than others given that day; in fact, I made it a point to call out the injustices of the GOP in recent years. The best part, though, is that the speech was delightfully eaten up by the crowd and I spent hours after the speech talking to people about the message I aimed to convey... and they all overwhelmingly agreed with me.

It's one thing to be right, it's another thing to convince someone you're right; it's not only about what you say, but how you say it. 

Watch the speech below; in my humble opinion, this is the way we can win over the right.

The Next New Dealers or Generation Liberty?

The Washington Post ran this piece by E.J. Dionne under the headline "The Next New Dealers."  A better headline would have been "Generation Liberty."  This is where Young Americans for Liberty will make the difference for generations to come.  We cannot let our generation slip into the statist hypnosis.  H/t: The New Republic.

Is Obama losing the under-30 crowd, too?

E.J. Dionne Jr

WASHINGTON--Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them?

The relative strength of conservatives in American politics since the 1980s was built on generational change: Voters whose views had been shaped by the New Deal were gradually replaced with the more cautious souls who came of age after FDR. Then the Millennial generation came along.