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The Inaugural Tea Party | Release of Angelica Dry Gin – Buffalo Rising

Angelica Tea RoomandLockhouse Distillery & Barinvite you to the grand unveiling of their first collaboration Angelica Dry Gin. This is great news for the tea room and the local distilling industry. According to Angelica co-owner Harry Zemsky, the process was a vigorous one, with a lot of tweaks and tastings before coming up with the Angelica approved gin.

The process of working, and reworking Angelica Drys taste was a very engaging process, I think for both parties, said Zemsky. We were much more concerned with what the product tasted like in our cocktails a level of customization wed never be able to find in a mass market product.

The Inaugural Tea Party Release of Angelica Dry Gin will be held on Friday, August 4 from 8 PM to 1 AM.

Angelica Tea Room | 517 Washington Street | Buffalo, New York

For further information on the event, visit this Facebook event.

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Ex-Tea Party Lawmaker Pete Hoekstra Named Ambassador to Netherlands – Democracy Now!

In Iraq, thousands of families from Mosul remain living in camps and unable to return to their homes, nearly a month after Iraqs prime minister declared victory in the U.S.-backed offensive to reclaim the city from ISIS. At the Salamiya camp west of Mosul, residents complain of limited water supplies and sweltering heat. Those returning to Mosul say they face ongoing violence and unlivable conditions.

Saddam, displaced resident: "I cant go back to my neighborhood because there is no water, no electricity, no services, nothing at all in my area. Our homes were destroyed. They were robbed. TVs, everything was stolen. We came here to this camp, and life here is very difficult."

The Independent reports more than 40,000 civilians died in the nine-month battle to retake Mosul, with thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch is calling on the Trump administration to cut off support to an Iraqi Army division, after it reported Wednesday that Iraqi troops trained by the U.S. allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosuls Old City.

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Republicans repeal and replace the Tea Party – Washington Examiner – Washington Examiner

Even when Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, liberalism remains the default ideology of the federal government.

A Republican Senate could not muster even 50 votes for the full repeal of Obamacare's taxes and spending. Six Republican senators who had voted for repeal in 2015, when the party was merely pretending it was possible, flipped on Wednesday rather than deliver.

Five of the six represent states President Trump won in November. The sixth hails from a state Trump lost by less than 3 points.

An argument can be made that repealing these parts of Obamacare while leaving its regulatory structure largely in place is a bad idea. But we are discussing a law that Republicans spent seven years campaigning against. Every GOP senator except one either voted for repeal in the past or campaigned on it in a recent election cycle. Their leader was said to have a "secret plan" to repeal Obamacare "root and branch."

There was ample time for a contingency plan or even a better approach to replacing the healthcare law.

No amount of time ever seems to be enough. Not 1 inch of ground gained by liberalism is ever ceded without a fight. Republicans can campaign against those gains. They can now tweet about them. But when it comes to action, Republicans can seldom do more than nibble around the edges. The slightest retrenchment of a healthcare law that did not even exist a decade ago is portrayed as a mass casualty event.

Perhaps the most enduring conservative domestic policy gain is keeping marginal tax rates below 40 percent for the past 30 years. (Oops!)

After Mitt Romney, Republicans were supposed to have learned how to do healthcare policy. After the Tea Party, they were supposed to have become more serious about contesting big-government liberalism. After Trump, they were supposed to have learned how to fight Democrats and the media.

The score as of Thursday morning: 0 for 3.

Little of this is surprising. Republicans had 23 years since the failure of Bill and Hillary Clinton's healthcare power grab to come up with their own alternative. Romneycare, the precursor to Obamacare, and the deficit-financed Medicare Part D was about the best they could do.

Republicans have long paid lip service to opposing big government when the Democrats are in charge, only to keep the trillions flowing once they take charge.

Yet the Tea Party was the triumph of hope over experience. Substantially a protest against former President Barack Obama, it was also believed that it could lead to a revival of constitutional conservatism.

For the first time since the ascendance of New Deal liberalism, constitutionally limited government Washington confined to its enumerated powers was a mainstream part of the political discourse.

Just not mainstream enough, as it turned out.

That's not entirely the Republicans' fault. In practice, the American people want a much bigger federal government than the Constitution currently authorizes.

Not long ago, a conservative wag quipped that if a president actually tried to enforce the Constitution's limits on federal power, he or she would be impeached.

But even if Republicans find a way to give Obamacare a haircut, part of a new "skinny" welfare state, it will more closely resemble past free-market corrections of liberalism's excesses than a serious constitutional conservative challenge to liberalism.

That doesn't bode well for the Tea Party project of rolling back major liberal initiatives. The point of voting Republican will remain to make the inexorable growth of the welfare state as slow and painful as possible, a political posture that may be attractive to neither libertarian-leaning conservatives nor the populists drawn to Trump in the last presidential election.

The Tea Party came to repeal and replace Obamacare. They ended up getting repealed and replaced themselves.

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Commentary: The betrayal of the Tea Party and rise of the Indivisibles – Austin American-Statesman

Good news from Houston last week: The Tea Party chapter there received its tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service. Never mind that it applied for that status in 2014 thank you Lois Lerner and the rest of the crowd in the IRS which stifled the Tea Partys free speech. But I am sure the tax problems associated with the Tea Party have been ironed out and the newest political activist group, the Indivisibles, will find the road much smoother now.

On July 15, the local Indivisibles group held a rally in Smithville, which by all accounts was very successful. There was good attendance, notable Democrat speakers and lots of red meat thrown around. You know, things like gun control, health care, and making the rich pay for it. They were pumped and looking forward to taking on Republicans in future Texas elections.

But there are several important differences between the previous success of the Tea Party and what the Indivisibles are now doing.

The Tea Party bucked the establishment. It did not just need to help beat Democrats, it also had to fight establishment Republicans, many of whom were challenged during Primary elections by Tea Party-supported candidates. Republican establishment people absolutely hate conservatives pushing the party to the right and away from the soft, slushy left-center where living is easy.

Another problem for the Tea Party is the negative press that President Donald Trump is receiving. With some news outlets aggressive negative coverage toward the president, there just isnt any room for Tea Party voices to be heard. At the same time the press coverage of anarchist-like riots has not been condemnation like it should be. Really, burning cars and destroying shops are supposed to be legitimate statements? Do you ever wonder why that sort of civil disorder seldom happens in Second Amendment-supporting states like Texas? Draw a logical conclusion.

Finally, the third obstacle is what we are now calling the Deep State. The bureaucrats in federal government are indeed deeply entrenched and are becoming more brazen in their own fight to maintain control. The most obvious manifestation of this are the almost-daily leaks of sometimes classified information to the press. The information is always meant to put the Trump administration in a bad light. Remember the IRS tax-exempt issue in the first paragraph? Its that, too.

We do not see the Tea Party receiving establishment money. Certainly, there are big name conservative donors who have contributed to the Tea Party, but the funding pales in comparison to the shadow groups helping the Indivisibles run their machine. George Soros, noted financier and convicted felon is known to do his part to cause left-wing mischief.

Locally, look at the difference in party activities. The Democrats are making things happen while the Republican Party Executive Committee is making endless changes to its bylaws and wasting precious time. There will be much more on that in future columns.

The push is to make Texas blue within three election cycles at a minimum. Demographically, the inertia is with the Democrats, but it is not a sure thing. If Republicans dont get their act together and see the big picture, things will not go well for them, even here in Bastrop County. Time to wake up.

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LEGO Blast Competition, Teddy Bear Tea Party return – BlueRidgeNow.com

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As summer winds down and families prepare for the new school year, Historic Johnson Farm celebrates the last of summer fun with two long-standing events.

The LEGO Blast Competition will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 3 and is open to rising second- through sixth-grade students.

Student entries are $5; spectators get in free and are encouraged.

The Teddy Bear Tea Party is recommended for a younger audience, 3- to 9-year-olds, and will be held from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 10.

The LEGO Blast competition has been running for a number of years with varying themes for each event. This year the theme is Habitats. Students are invited to create an original design (no kits please) of a habitat fit for LEGO men and creatures. The habitat can be indoors, outdoors or even out in space.

Student creations will be judged on creativity and originality, use of color and interpretation of the theme.

Each student should bring their own LEGOs to build with. No LEGOs will be provided by Johnson Farm.

Students will have about 45 minutes to an hour to construct their creation on the day of the event. No pre-constructed pieces should be brought from home.

During the judging period kids are invited to play games, enjoy refreshments and have their photo taken as their favorite LEGO character. A first-place prize will be awarded for each age group and certificates will be presented to all students.

The annual Teddy Bear Tea Party will feature tea time, snacks, games, stories and a photo booth for both kids and their favorite teddy bear friend. Tea will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. and participants are asked to arrive no later than 10:20 a.m. so no part of the program is missed.

RSVP to either event by calling Johnson Farm at 828-891-6585 or visiting historicjohnsonfarm.org.

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