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Invited to Awakening 2012: Perry, Bachman, Scott, West, Rubio

The Freedom Federation, a network of conservative faith-based organizations, will host its “Awakening 2012″ event in Orlando next year, featuring a long list of big conservative names as “invited speakers.”

Longtime adversaries Norquist and Gaffney continue ideological battle at conservative conference

By | 04.12.11 | 6:26 pm

At this weekend’s Awakening conference in Lynchburg, Va., a longstanding ideological battle continued between Grover Norquist, president of the taxpayer advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, and his longtime foes, anti-Sharia activist Frank Gaffney.

Frank Gaffney: The North American Union Is Real (Video)

By | 09.28.09 | 4:11 pm

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At the “How to Take Back America” conference in St. Louis, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy led two workshop sessions — one on “how to defeat attacks on sovereignty by U.N. treaties and North American Union” and one on “how to understand Islam.” At that More…

GOP ‘Sovereignty Caucus’ Battles Obama on Treaties

By | 07.01.09 | 11:53 am

Shortly after leaving their offices on June 24, dozens of Hill staffers, foreign policy experts, and old Washington hands made their way to the lower floor of the Capitol Visitors Center, a sprawling complex below the halls of Congress. The occasion was the low-key launch of the new More…

Tony Perkins and Frank Gaffney React to Koh Cloture Vote

By | 06.25.09 | 4:01 pm

A vote on Harold Koh’s nomination to be legal adviser to the State Department is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Yesterday, after cloture passed on Koh, I asked Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council for a reaction on a nominee his group had campaigned hard against.

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Frank Gaffney Is on the Case

By | 06.09.09 | 9:38 am

Via Ben Smith, we find Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney pulling out his hair and rending his garments about President Obama’s Cairo speech. Gaffney has previously cited “evidence” (what evidence, he didn’t say) that the president was “born in Kenya,” but he’s a reliable agitator for More…

Gaffney: Build Opposition to Koh Nomination During Congress’ Memorial Day Break

By | 05.19.09 | 12:03 pm

TWI’s David Weigel is tweeting live from the “Libel Lawfare” Islamism conference (follow here), and he reports that Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney suggested conservative efforts to fight Harold Koh’s nomination to be State Department legal adviser are far More…

The Very Serious Frank Gaffney

By | 04.07.09 | 12:07 pm

Look, Glenn Beck can book whoever he wants to talk about whatever he wants. And he will! But was Frank Gaffney the best guest to talk about the slightly loopy case against President Obama’s nominee for State Department counsel, Harold Koh? Gaffney has had problems distinguishing More…