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A Gay Rights Win at CPAC

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This past weekend, thousands of conservatives descended on the Marriott in Washington, D.C. for the annual CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference). Ten thousand conservatives, to be exact. From all corners of the country. In one place. To meet each other.Sounds terrifying, right? Well, trust me. It is. And I'm conservative.

I spent the better part of the afternoon preparing a post on Scott Brown as a response to Morra before I suddenly realized that, for the most part, my post wasn't so much about how great Scott Brown is and was, but more how great not having universal health care was going to be. Now, to be honest, this wasn't really my fault. It was merely a reaction to the arguments I was hearing in favor of Marcia...pardon me, Martha Coakley, which boiled down to, essentially, this:

Sometimes NOT winning an election is the real path to victory. Al Gore, for example, translated his narrow, court-ordered loss to George W. Bush into a successful career as Captain Planet's alter ego. Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential nominee on the failed McCain presidential bid, is trading policy debates for speaking engagements and a brand spanking new career as a television pundit.

TSA, Can We Talk?

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In case you were worried that the Transportation Safety Administration had not cracked down on those wily terrorists in the week or so since the PantyBomber boarded his plane in Nigeria, you can now rest easy. They have identified and detained a very dangerous terrorist.Joan Rivers.

For the Obama Administration, and Janet Napolitano in particular, this has been a week full of security mishaps and terrible outerwear.

I was going to write about the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, but being that I hang around with Republicans, I get more than enough of rich people telling poor people how they should be running their lives. And, frankly, I sucked at science, and had biology with the football coach so you know what? I don’t understand a lot of stuff about science. I get physics. I can do some math. Not a lot of math, but put the math in a Mythbusters episode and I can pretty much follow along as long as explosions are involved. But climatology?

After weeks of agony, several trips abroad and more meetings than should have ever been necessary, President Obama has decided to follow the advice of General McChrystal and commit 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan over the next three years. And then, after those three years, we leave with the understanding that the Afghani government, which has been incapable of functioning in the several years we've been hanging around their nation, has their crap together and is, against all odds, a working Democratic government.

Is Huckabee History?

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You know, I've written those words more times than I care to think about. Its not like this is the very first time anyone has ever penned the obituary for the Mike Huckabee's political career, nor is this the last time someone will ever comment on how this situation or that discovery is threatening to drop him off the face of the planet, only to have him rebound spectacularly.I mean, I'm not that lucky. He will haunt me forever. Because, of course, I love him that much.

Count me underwhelmed by Sarah Palin, or, to be specific, the person Sarah Palin has become. Or, to be even more specific, the person Sarah Palin became to be interviewed on Oprah about her book yesterday morning.

When I  received this assignment, I thought it would be easy to take a clear position on the issue of whether I believed the Stupak Amendment to the House health care bill was worthwhile or even necessary. As I thought further, it became less clear to me, as someone who believes in the foundations of small government and individual liberty upon which this country was built, and given the reality of the time in which we live, it became more difficult for me to make a definitive statement.

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