Trumpkins Having a Ball
This year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner highlights just how little a President Trump would change D.C. culture.
Rand Paul Is CPAC Straw Poll Winner
Well, there it is: As the Washington Times reported a few minutes before the official announcement, Rand Paul has won the 2014 CPAC straw poll. It’s not a huge surprise ...
Benji Backer and the Pressure to Be Precocious
Benji Backer has a lot of feelings about Jonathan Krohn. That’s because Backer, 16, of Appleton, Wis., is (as far as I can tell) the youngest person to speak at ...
Carson: ‘I Will Continue to Defy the PC Police’
Ben Carson’s CPAC speech today was catnip for his fans. The retired neurosurgeon and Fox News contributor fired up the standing-room-only crowd with a fiery discourse on the dangers of political ...
Ben Carson 2016 Advocates Don’t Expect Announcement Today
The head of an activist group hoping for a Ben Carson 2016 presidential bid downplayed supporters’ hopes that Carson might announce his candidacy at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday.
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Ben Carson 2016 Supporters Clamor At CPAC
When Ben Carson speaks at CPAC on Saturday, hundreds of “Run, Ben, Run” banners could theoretically be unfurled. That’s because The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee super PAC ...
Stockman: ‘We’re Going To Run Again’
Steve Stockman, the Texas congressman who launched a long-shot primary challenge against Senator John Cornyn, told NRO this morning that he plans to run for office again. His decision to ...
Priebus: March for Life a Wake-Up Call for GOP
RNC chair Reince Priebus sat down with a group of conservative journalists and bloggers this afternoon at CPAC, and he had some interesting things to say about the RNC’s experience with ...
Conservative Tunes Come To CPAC
Chip Murray of Warwick, N.Y., sports a baseball cap with a “Stop Common Core” button pinned to it and a black T-shirt with a Joan of Arc quote, and at CPAC ...
At CPAC, Ted Cruz Is the Most Popular Guy in the Room
Ted Cruz is running late. In a quickly crowding hallway in the middle of the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., a yellow-shirted CPAC volunteer is trying ...