Editors’ Blog - 2011
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02.11.11 | 9:29 am
Showing them the Door

The new head of CPAC suggests the organization may now cut ties with GOProud.

02.11.11 | 12:11 pm
What We’re Watching

There’s a very important and rather bizarre story out of Wisconsin today. And one we’re going to be watching closely. New Gov. Scott Walker (R) is proposing stripping all government workers of their collective bargaining rights. And to add a weirdly Mubarak-like angle to it he’s now flaunting the fact that he’s put the state national guard on alert in case there is labor unrest in response to the loss of collective bargaining rights.

02.11.11 | 1:40 pm
Erdogan Releases Statement

Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey has released the following statement on events today in Egypt … Read More

02.11.11 | 3:42 pm
High Times

What does it look like to smoke 130 tons of pot? Take a look.

02.11.11 | 5:19 pm
The (New) Red Menace

In his speech tonight at CPAC, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that the nation is facing a new “Red Menace,” a challenge and a threat “as great as those of the 1860s, or the 1940s, or the long twilight of the Cold War.”

02.12.11 | 6:18 am
Endearing

Andrew Breitbart at CPAC: Code Pink protestors used to be “kind of slutty,” but now they’re just “long in the tooth.”

02.12.11 | 8:49 am
South Carolina May Adopt Own Currency

Picking up on the ancestral tradition, South Carolinians have spent much of the last two years asserting various forms of independence from the federal government and attempting to block different federal laws. Now a state senator from the Palmetto State has decided it’s time for South Carolina to create its own currency. Read More

02.12.11 | 10:27 am
CPAC Straw Poll Results Coming

Every year, one of the big news headlines coming out of CPAC is who wins the closely-watched presidential straw poll. It’s worth pointing out that it’s not clear that it has any predictive value whatsoever. If we followed past signs, you’d think that the USA was already being run by a hereditary Ron Paul dynasty. All that notwithstanding, the results are expected shortly. Our Evan McMorris-Santoro who’s there on the scene says there are apparently a few hundred more votes cast than in previous years.

Winner to be announced here a bit later this afternoon …

02.12.11 | 11:26 am
CPAC Slideshow

See scenes from CPAC 2011 in our Take 1 CPAC 2011 Slideshow.

Here 80s SNL star Victoria Jackson, a staunch Tea Partier, at CPAC this week …

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