Who are we? We're your friends and neighbors. We're your best friends, and people you've never met. We're wealthy professionals and hard working blue collars. We're Republicans, we're Democrats, we're Libertarians, and we're Independents. We're "We the People". We're you.” This is how the organizers of the Montgomery, Alabama “Tea Party” describe themselves on their Web site: www.tricntyteapartycoalition.com.

The crowd behind the state capitol building was estimated to be as high as 3,000 people. One of the organizers, Parker Johnston, served as emcee for the spirited rally which took up the noon hour. He drew wild applause when he quoted these words: “When the people fear the government there’s tyranny, but when the government fears the people there’s liberty.”

Voters around the United States have very mixed feelings about America’s place in the world in the years ahead.

A June Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that:

Only 31 percent of U.S. voters think the United States will be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st century.