The Sunday Read

Frank Rich's column in the Sunday New York Times is becoming must-reading these days. Today's column is about the far-right's resurgence and mainstreaming in the Tea Party "movement". He has the Joseph Stack murder/suicide in Austin and teabaggers in mind when he writes:

"Two days before Stack’s suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow’s chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. The Patriot movement. “The New World Order,” with its shadowy conspiracies hatched by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Sandpoint, Idaho. White supremacists. Militias.

His whole column is worth a read, and is chilling.