[smokingfrog]

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

[moodyskeptic]

This passes for wit in liberal circles?

[Slyfox]

Must be a slow news day when someone complains about uppercase letters.

[USNBandit]

Well she did capitalize pursuit........

[jwparkerjr]

Could it just possibly be because that’s the way it’s written in the Constitution?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somewhere, members of this clown's fan club are texting,

what u b doing u got 2 c this

[gov_bean_ counter]

and i want to know why yankees put an er at the end of alabama...

ee cummings mode

[VeniVidiVici]

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Now you've gone and done it. The author, John Lackman, will be pissed you lifted words from an Obama speech without attribution.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

When exactly did “uppercase” become a verb?

[RainMan]

... because there is a difference between god and God. The left knows that, and it is why they cant ... no ... wont ... acknowledge it. The use of capitals is indicative of specific meaning. To say man has certain inalienable rights is not the same as Man has certain inalienable rights. The first could be a gender, but the second means a genus. If man has certain inalienable rights, then wo-man may not have those same rights.

[April Lexington]

What John Lackman doesn't understand is that, in German, nouns are capitalized.

[Yaelle]

Because we are more international and well-read, and take our cues from great English literature as well as other languages where all nouns are capitalized. That’s Why.

[Nosterrex]

Maybe the reason that they use uppercase letters for referring to God is one of respect.

[Billthedrill]

Extending this logic, the use of heavy caps could be said to align the Tea Party more firmly with the working class of the late-18th-century than the patrician Founding Fathers the party professes to admire.

You can extend any logic to absurdity, but never faster when it stems from false premises. I'd be perfectly happy to have had the author cite even one example of where the "Tea Partiers" suffer from an overuse of capital letters that is not a direct quotation from a historical document. One single example that might serve to rescue this train-wreck of a piece from inanity. There is none, only an elephantine attempt at wit in this:

"To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison," Glenn Beck likes to say. More Capitals, less Das Kapital!

I will be charitable and assume that the author actually does understand the differences between Marx's Capital and that word applied to orthography, but it wouldn't be the way I'd bet if money were involved. Either way, Beck never said it. And so to the main point: absent a concrete example of the "Tea Partiers'" preference for overcapitalized text this screed is merely a tedious and rather clumsy attempt to conjure academic standing for a juvenile linking of the author's political opponents with 18th-century illiterati instead of the Founders. Our snoring isn't at the two-penny erudition, it's at the boredom.

[Soul Seeker]

Losing leads them to fixate on what words we choose to use caps for? LOL

If I knew it Bothered them SO much I’d have done it More Often.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Likewise, I will ofttimes not capitalize proper names that, IMHO, do not deserve any form of respect such as "democrat party", and I will also play with creating new words that I think are more appropriate, such as commiecrat.

[TigersEye]

The ‘TEA’ in TEA Party is an acronym. Why isn’t this author bright enough to capitalize the letters? /s

[csense]

you know who else capitalized all their nouns? The Nazis....

And there you have it. The point of the article, as illustrated by this single comment.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Because most Tea Partiers are unemployed Real Estate Agents who lost their asses in the Real Estate Market.

[llandres]

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

They just don’t get it, do they? It’s for Emphasizing Those Things that Require Emphasis, Now More than Ever :-))))))))

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I was taught that when you refer to our Constitution use a capital and the same with our Nation. The cardinal points of the compass, North, South, East and West get caps. Earth and other planets rate caps.

I don't know what is taught now.