The Other McCain

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

CPAC Coda: Some Cheap Riffs

by Smitty Max Blumenthal has a parade of pathetic petulance at the PuffHo, emphasis mine: While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. Really, Max, if you were confronted by a crazed mob, something far less fortunate would have […]

Would Everyone Please Stop Arguing About Gays and Ryan Sorba?

You’re depressing me. Really. Because I’m feeling the need to write a 2,500-word essay that no one will pay me to write. It’s very easy for Bryan Fischer to stir this up by denouncing Hot Air. That’s what he gets paid to do, stir things up. But there are important arguments being overlooked because no one will […]

What All the Cool Kids Are Wearing

You know you want to buy one of these T-shirts:

Mark Levin vs. Glenn Beck (And Some Other CPAC-Related Musings)

My 17-year-old son Bob was driving home Monday evening after we’d picked up his twin brother James from work and we were listening to the Mark Levin’s opening monologue on 1490 AM here in Hagerstown when I said, “Uh-oh, he’s going after Glenn Beck.” I grabbed pen and a piece of paper and jotted down […]

Funny, My Wife Says the Same Thing

“At which point I ran into Robert Stacy McCain and saw my entire evening turned upside down.” — Adam Brickley, Race for 2012

VIDEO: CPAC Panel on ‘Saving Freedom from Fascism’

My friend (and sometimes antagonist) Quin Hillyer chaired this panel featuring Jonah Goldberg, Amity Schlaes and Herb London: People who know me as the CPAC Schmooze King — as William Upton of The American Conservative observes, I have a knack for being everywhere at CPAC — often ask me, “Stacy, why have you never been asked […]

Mike Huckabee, Sore Loser

He got 4% in the CPAC straw poll — which was won by Ron Paul — and suddenly decides that a gathering of 10,000 conservative activists is a bad thing: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. . . . […]

Let’s Party Like It’s 1994!

From my latest American Spectator column: Reagan Palooza 2010 kept cranking into the wee hours of Sunday morning on Capitol Hill. Young right-wingers were jammed onto the upstairs dance floor of the Hawk ‘n’ Dove where they partied past midnight after the final day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The fire-code capacity crowd […]

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