CPAC
Even Hardcore Anti-Establishment Republicans Are Horrified by Donald Trump
Trump cancelled a speech at one of the largest conservative conferences in the US, where the same crowd that created the Tea Party is growing increasingly hostile toward his campaign.
Everything We Know So Far About the Man Who Was Shot by Cops After Allegedly Plotting to Behead a Conservative Pundit
When Usaamah Abdullah Rahim was killed on Tuesday, it looked to some like just another case of police excess. But the feds say the 26-year-old was planning to behead serial Muslim antagonist Pamela Geller.
White Nationalists, Sarah Palin, and the Slow Death of the Right-Wing Fringe
Once reliably cuckoo, the annual conservative hoedown was disarmingly reasonable, even sane, in 2015.
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Bash Bush and Roast Hillary at CPAC
The annual gathering of American conservative grassroots activists is widely considered the launching pad for the next phase of the Republican primary.
CPAC Attack: The Five Types of People You Meet at the Conservative Circus
The annual conservative hoedown is a Republican Comic Con: part trade show, part media spectacle, and attended by people who can't get laid.
Conservatives Have a Terrifying Vision of America's Future
A world where Congressman Steve Stockman gets college kids to jump into hot tubs, and where the final crash is always just around the corner.
Republicans Have Finally Turned Against the Drug War
Libertarian Republicans are pushing the party to get behind marijuana legalization. Is this a culture war the GOP is willing to lose?
BigDawg Music Mafia's CPAC Serenade
The far right's annual summit is more than just guys in bad ties talking about God, guns, and socialism. It's a giant party, a celebration of conservative culture, and for the first time this year, all that revelry is set to live music, courtesy of...
Some Swedes Made a Special Brand of Cerebral-Palsy Beer
About a year ago, in an attempt to stop people from being excessively nice to the handicapped, the Gothenburg Cooperative for Independent Living in Sweden (GIL) made a physically challenged doll with cerebral palsy. GIL just released their own brand of...
Hey Black Dudes, Why the Hell Are You at CPAC?
It's kind of hard to imagine why any black person would be at CPAC. But surprisingly, there are more than a handful of brown ladies and gents at the conservative conference. I wandered around the bowels of the Gaylord Convention Center and spoke to...
The Lovely Ladies of CPAC
There is a lot of stuff to do at CPAC beyond listening to conservative politicos bloviate about taxes and the gays. My favorite thing has been to just sit back and admire all of the nice-looking ladies. Here are some of most adorable femi-cons I've met...