Buoyed by a wave of small-government enthusiasm after a march on Washington earlier this year, the region’s tea party movement is sweeping up new acolytes even as controversy swirls around a group deeper South, area organizers said.

Unsurprisingly, the march toward an Orwellian, one-world government/one-world currency has not missed a step with the recent transition from President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama.

I anxiously awaited the comments and opinions of former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday morning on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” What he said ran the gamut – predictable, stubborn, unapologetic and non-forgiving. One of his emanations, though, if true, indicates that his boss and America’s former president was a liar.

A popular admonition in sports and combat is to keep one’s head on a swivel, meaning to watch in all directions. President Barack Obama’s recent application of the concept with regard to prosecuting Bush officials over terrorist interrogations means Americans might be wise to be on the lookout, too, for another attack. Terrorists who are perpetually watching surely have seen our weakness showing.

A wave of unrest, which began unfurling last fall, washed across the country Wednesday, to the discernible notice of observers in the White House, where a lockdown was ordered, and the noticeable chagrin of the president’s compadres in Congress and his acolytes elsewhere.