Meet Donna Hicks, a candidate for mayor of Spartanburg, SC and an organizer of a teabagging event held yesterday at that city's Beacon Drive-In.

Donna, though, wasn't even the biggest nut there. Take this fellow for instance:

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That's what Rep. Joey Millwood (R-Landrum) tweeted to me last evening as we had some, um, fun discussing teabagging and the like.

We decided to have some more fun with him.

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The tax protests which sprouted yesterday in places like Sacramento, DC, and, of all places, The Alamo, were proclaimed to be "spontaneous" by the talking heads at Fox News (who "spontaneously" set up their crews and equipment around the country to broadcast the protests... and whose presence was repeatedly announced on the Fox News programs ahead of time, I guess, as a "spontaneous" piece of PR.)

To get to these protests, which took place in public squares, parks and historical sites (all supported and maintained by taxes), people took highways and subways and railroads (all subsidized by taxes)... and after the protests ended they probably went out to eat somewhere, having meats and vegetables which our Agriculture and other Departments keep a safety view on by means of taxes. Most of these protests were guarded and protected by police (paid by taxes), to make sure their right to protest was upheld and no one was hurt.

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Last week, Glenn Beck invoked the memory of Thomas Paine to encourage American citizens to protest against Obama's proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy in order to provide the poor and middle class with benefits such as healthcare and improved education.

Ironically, Paine was no libertarian--today, he might even be recognized as a -gasp- socialist. Given the lionization of Paine by libertarians, and now Beck, you're probably thinking that I'm just inventing this. In fact, the writings I'm about to share with you demonstrate that if Paine was alive today he would probably be to Obama's left, and probably more of an anathema to Beck's kind than our current crop of politicians.

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