The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

CPAC Day 1: Murderer’s Row

That was the scene this morning in the Blogger’s Lounge at CPAC, and some of you may recognize Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit and Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid among the bloggers coping with the reportedly substandard WiFi connection. I’m blogging from Ladd Ehlinger‘s hotel room, where the WiFi’s just fine, thank you. This […]

CPAC Day 1: Deadline in the Lobby Bar

Greetings from the fabulous Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, scene of the awesomest CPAC evah! The photo above was taken last night in the lobby bar, where I filed my column for today’s American Spectator: WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 10,000 activists will convene here today at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel for the biggest gathering […]

CPAC Update: Rep. Allen West Will Buy Me Beers and Also Give Keynote Speech

One of these things is very important news: Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) will be the closing keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, he said in a Wednesday morning tweet. Will update with further news of who’s buying me beers at CPAC. Other than “everybody,” of course. UPDATE: It can be […]

Lisa D on the Herman Cain Bandwagon?

CPAC director Lisa DePasquale profiles Herman Cain in her latest “De Pasquale’s Dozen” column at Human Events. CPAC starts Feb. 10 — just 34 days from now — so go register now.

Herman Cain Will Speak at CPAC!

Via Citzens4Cain on Twitter comes the latest news: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a project of the American Conservative Union Foundation, is pleased to announce that business leader and talk radio host Herman Cain will address the event to be held February 10-12 in Washington D.C.  Mr. Cain will speak on Friday, February 11 […]

‘In One of the Wiser Posts I Have Seen’

Eric at Classical Values knows what words to put beside my name in a post about the alleged conflict between social conservatives and economic conservatives. When (alleged) libertarian Ryan Sager was pushing this “House Divided” angle from one side, I denounced it. And now that some people are pushing it from the other side, I denounce it […]

Ready for the Best. CPAC. Evah?

Confirmed speakers for this year’s event — Feb. 10-12 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in D.C. — include Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz and Haley Barbour — and you can expect many more big names to be announced in the next six weeks. Lisa DePasquale and her crew out-do themselves every […]

Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut

From my latest American Spectator column: Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. Frank Rich devoted the entirety of his Sunday New York Times column to insinuating that the Tea Party movement is a paranoid aggregation motivated by “frothing anti-government, […]

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