TEA PARTY UPDATE: Reader John Marcoux writes:

Here’s a couple of pics from our third annual tax day rally of the Charleston Tea Party, held this year on the main deck of the USS Yorktown, a truly grand setting for a Tea Party gathering. Newt Gingrich spoke as did our Congressman, Tim Scott. Everyone was enthusiastic, and this was heartening to me, as we’ve had disappointments lately in Washington.

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy. Just necessary.