“I was very shocked and couldn’t believe what I was hearing.” During a pre-deployment briefing, Fort Hood soldiers were told that Christians, Tea Party supporters and anti-abortion activists were a radical terror threat, enemies of America, and that anyone found to be supporting these groups would be subject to discipline under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. That’s the explosive claim... 

Nadine Sweeney shows her support during a Tea Party rally at the Daley Plaza on Thursday. Sally Sinacore, a retired paralegal from Palatine, came to the Daley Plaza Tea Party rally wrapped in an American flag that had draped the coffin of her father, a World War II veteran. “I’m here because I want us to become fiscally more conservative. We cannot take this heavy spending any longer,”...