A mailer being sent by health insurers to seniors seeks to exploit fears about Congressional changes to the health care system to sell supplemental insurance. And it contains false claims about “new” reductions in Medicare benefits imposed by Congress.
Yesterday, 66-year-old Donna Price of Battle Ground, Washington, received this official-looking mailer in a pull-apart envelope from direct mail firm Target Leads (aka TL Service Center).
At the bottom, the mailer notes “Tim Manry, licensed insurance agent” may get in touch if you return the card with …

The attorney behind the first-ever Birther infomercial started teabagging way before it was cool.
Back in the mid 1970s, Gary Kreep spearheaded a national tea bag-based movement to protest the Ford Administration’s tax policies.
“To protest unreasonably high taxes, people stapled tea bags to their tax returns,” explains Kreep, now director of the United States Justice Foundation, but then a law student and an officer in the California chapter of the Reaganite Young Americans for Freedom.

When the the 2009 teabagger movement began to emerge earlier this …