Recently, a group of Yale students launched a web-based campaign to encourage Republican Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels to run for President in 201...
Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011
I haven't weighed on the conservative mass inconization of former President Ronald Reagan because, to a degree, it's so amusing.
Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011
Glenn Beck hit two themes of interest to a psychologist in his keynote speech to a conservative audience at CPAC -- his idyllic family life, and his a...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011
The scientific consensus confirms the dangers of climate change. Yet rarely are climate deniers called on to cite fact-based, peer-reviewed evidence for their rebuttals.
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
It would help if we had a true understanding of what government actually does before we start screaming about shrinking it.
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
Ayn Rand/Glenn Beck -- the glorifiers of selfishness, cruelty, and the lions eating the weak -- have become the dominant players of modern day conservatism. Let's hope they never take control of our country.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011
I have for several years been urging progressives to stop calling these people "conservatives," which they plainly are not, and instead to call them what they really are -- regressives.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
With a resume like the Bush Years, how else could conservatives act at their own convention? When your trying to slam what's wrong with America, and you caused those very problems, you're going to end up shredding yourself.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
"What a triumph for our enemies . . . to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves." Barack Obama in 2010? No, George Washington in 1786.
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011
Anyone who has followed The Conservative Political Action Conference over the years isn't surprised by the antics on display at its 2010 incarnation -- the crazy continues.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Bombastic conservative talk show host Glenn Beck closed a three-day conservative conference on Saturday by demanding that...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Three years ago conservative firebrand Ann Coulter riled up the Conservative Political Action Conference when she called then Democratic presidential ...
McClatchy | Steven Thomma | Posted 05.25.2011
Everyone knows that President Barack Obama relies on a teleprompter a lot when giving talks. He even used one to talk to a dozen members of his own Mi...
Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011
I want to hold up a mirror to Jason Mattera and the GOP on the issue of drug use following his jab at President Obama's admission to having used cocaine in his youth.
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Stephen Baldwin, now a right-wing radio host and reality television staple, is at CPAC trying to mobilize young conservatives. He kicked off the conve...
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Huffington Post political reporter Ryan Grim appeared on MSNBC today, reporting live from the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference. Grim dis...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) gave, perhaps, the strongest indication to date that Republican leadership views the upcoming bipartisan healt...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
One-time Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr riled the conservative CPAC crowd on Friday, when he declared that civilian courts were appropria...
Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011
A highlight of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is its straw poll of potential 2012 GOP presidential contenders. Though it's an uno...
Posted 05.25.2011
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow entered the lion's den when she stopped by the 2010 CPAC conference and roamed around with her video camera. She looked to be h...
HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
Will the Fed push up interest rates, and is that going to spell disaster for the economy? And, unemployment is disproportionately hitting the middle class and poor, barely touching those with six-figure salaries.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Just how unpopular are President Barack Obama's anti-terrorism policies with his Republican critics? Even when he's killing terrorists they find flaws...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
Bill O'Reilly issued a surprising Talking Points segment Thursday night, where he urged conservative attendees at CPAC not to "bash" President Obama. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
Hidden back against the far wall of the vast exhibit hall here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Frank Enten is selling buttons for $5 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In an acknowledgment that throws a wrench in Republican talking points, former Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Friday that the criminal justice...
Nathaniel Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011