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RNC Scraps Blackwater Fundraiser, Other Young Eagles Events
Yesterday I listed the year’s upcoming Young Eagles RNC fundraisers and wondered what their fate would be. Today we get an answer:
We are canceling all Young Eagles events until the club review is completed. This includes: Opening Day with the Phillies, U.S. Training Center, YE’s Leadership Summit
David Frum, aka Homer Simpson
The former AEI fellow is taking his firing in pretty good spirits. From a party invitation going out to friends:
Dale Robertson Skedaddles Away From Racist Photo
Tommy Christopher interviews Dale Robertson, the Tea Party activist who became infamous after I published a photo of him holding a sign with the phrase “Taxpayer = NIGGAR.” Robertson’s unhappy, understandably, with his new status as an activist who’s pilloried every time he’s quoted.
The photograph in question, available
Jason Mattera Named Editor-in-Chief of Human Events
Jason Mattera, a 26-year-old conservative activist and video journalist, has been named editor-in-chief of Human Events, replacing the departed Jed Babbin.
Mattera, the author of a new book titled “Obama Zombies,” has risen to prominence by filming punchy, made-for-Fox News interviews with liberal activists and Democratic members of Congress More…
National Organization for Marriage Shills for Hannity
The anti-gay marriage group emails supporters, asking them to buy a copy of Sean Hannity’s new book. The email is after the jump.
Heritage to Obama: Stop Giving Us Credit for Health Care Reform
If you missed it yesterday, Heritage Foundation’s president Ed Feulner’s pushback on President Obama — who gave the conservative think tank credit for developing the idea of an individual mandate — makes for some interesting reading. There’s some degree of political rhetoric (“It is a sign of desperation that More…
Will Hutchison Stay or Will She Go?
The senior senator from Texas is set for an 11 a.m. announcement on whether or not she’ll retire from the Senate, setting up what, for now, would be a Republicans-only race to replace her. Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams has been running hard all year in the expectation More…
Egg Crime 1984
Last week, conservatives grew annoyed with the way Democrats discussed the threats against them — it was unfair, said critics of the health care bill, to link all extremism to their opponents. This week, the conservative pushback is being led by Andrew Breitbart, who’s been posting — piece by piece More…
Club for Growth Reminds Mark Kirk of His Pledge
When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s “Repeal It” pledge of official support, Connolly suggested that repercussions couldn’t really happen until January 2011, when new members of Congress have a chance to introduce repeal legislation. If they More…
Census Returns Way Down in Republican Parts of Texas
File this under “problems that we really should have seen coming”: conservatives, egged on by the likes of Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), declining to return census forms and possibly shrinking the political power of states like Texas. The Lone Star State’s return rate for census More…
