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Extreme As It Ever Was: Five Things To Know About This Year's CPAC
3/8/14 @ 6:55pm
We’ve watched every speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and posted highlights of many of them here on the blog. But we don’t want to ignore the equally important stories that have been playing out behind the scenes of the American Conservative Uni... MORE
CPAC Panelist: 'Human Racism' Drives Climate Change Concern
3/8/14 @ 4:42pm
As in yesterday’s CPAC panel on climate change, another panel called “Can American Survive Obama’s War on Fossil Fuel?” featured an hour of climate change skeptics berating environmentalist straw men. In a memorable moment, Alex Epstein of the Ayn-Rand worshipping Center For... MORE
Ann Coulter: If Immigration Reform Passes, 'Organize The Death Squads For The People Who Wrecked America'
3/8/14 @ 3:05pm
CPAC today invited conservative commentator Ann Coulter to debate “liberal” journalist Mickey Kaus, who ended up holding the same right-wing views on immigration reform as Coulter, and who even praised ultraconservative GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions. The two tried to outdo each other in bashing... MORE
'Persecuted': Religious Right Fantasy-Thriller About The Death Of Freedom In America
3/8/14 @ 3:03pm
Ah, Friday night at CPAC. If you weren’t joining the “drunken yuck monkeys” whose loutish behavior so incensed Matt Barber, and you weren’t attending the white nationalist party whose invitation was shared by the Southern Poverty Law Center, you could catch an advance screeni... MORE
Ben Carson: Gay People 'Don't Get Extra Rights, They Don't Get To Redefine Marriage'
3/8/14 @ 1:50pm
Last year, Ben Carson grouped gay people with the likes of the pro-pedophilia group NAMBLA and “bestiality supporters” as nefarious forces trying “to change the definition [of marriage].” Carson later apologized for the remarks, but today at CPAC the potential presidenti... MORE
Bachmann: 'Our Movement At Its Core Is An Intellectual Movement'
3/8/14 @ 12:40pm
Warning that the government is trying to appropriate the roles of the family and the church, Michele Bachmann told CPAC attendees today that the conservative movement must fight back because it is "at its core is an intellectual movement" based "on the greatest ideas that have ever be... MORE
Bachmann: 'Build The Danged Fence!'
3/8/14 @ 12:05pm
Michele Bachmann denounced immigration reform in her speech at CPAC today, warning that "Wall Street and big business" are "clamoring for amnesty" in order to turn the US into "a country of dependency and the welfare state." Channeling John McCain, the Minnesota congres... MORE
CPAC Speaker: 'We Live Under The Imperial President His Highness Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm Mmm Mmm'
3/8/14 @ 11:20am
South Dakota state representative Jenna Haggar gave a spectacularly awkward speech to CPAC yesterday, in which she said that President Obama and his "big government progressive policies" are using "handouts and welfare" to make "generations of Americans dependent on the gove... MORE
Right Wing Round-Up - 3/7/14
3/7/14 @ 5:35pm
Peter Montgomery @ Political Research Associates: Right-wing Evangelicals In Uganda: Telling The Whole Story. Marge Baker @ Huffington Post: Debo Adegbile and the Toxic Influence of Big Money. Adam Serwer @ MSNBC: The Republican war on civil rights laws. Rachel Baye @ Slate: W... MORE
Right Wing Leftovers - 3/7/14
3/7/14 @ 5:25pm
Fox News loves Chris Christie. Media Research Center spokesman Dan Gainor says liberals are “determined to ruin sports so that they can have forced celebration of all things liberal – and these days, all things gay and eventually transgender.” Tony Perkins is... MORE
Industry-Funded CPAC Panelists: Climate Change A 'Silly' 'Scam,' 'Modern Witchcraft'
3/7/14 @ 4:53pm
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this morning hosted a panel titled, “What’s The Deal With Global Warming?,” the answer to which was apparently that it’s a “silly debate,” a “scam” and “modern witchcraft.” The panel was m... MORE
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