Trying to convince King Abdullah that we weally, weally,…. I mean double dog promise – pinkie swear – we, weally, weally can be trusted…..  honest !! (VOA) — The top U.S. military officer will be in Jordan and Israel beginning Sunday to reassure the key allies of U.S. support following the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen is scheduled to go to Amman to meet with his military counterpart and King Abdullah.  (more…)

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(Washington Times) Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, won the 2011 Washington Times/CPAC Straw Poll of 3,742 activists, the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the huge annual gathering of conservatives, announced Saturday. The presidential preference poll, sponsored this year for the first time by The Times, is seen as one of the earliest tests of grassroots popularity among the party’s dominant conservative wing, and Mr. Paul, who ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008, traditionally has done well in the CPAC voting.  (more…)

h/t WeeWeed… (CFP) The Human Stain, Philip Roth’s seminal novel regarding Political Correctness, racism, and the insipid hypocrisy of leftist morality, is a fitting backdrop to Barack Obama’s improbable presidency. In the story, Professor Coleman Silk, a half-Black Jewish professor, posing as a White man, is taken down by the mechanical application of PC rules to an accidental insult he gave to two African-Americans.  (more…)

If you havn’t been following the relationship and considerable unease between GoProud and CPAC considerations here is some background.  Beginning with a recent distancing of Tammy Bruce, whose opinion holds considerable merit amid conservatives: My Resignation from GOProud (TammyBruce) ”  (more…)

WASHINGTON — Three months after unseating a Democrat in a Palm Beach-Broward district that voted for Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, emerged tonight as one of the symbolic conservative faces of the new GOP-controlled House. Tapped by organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference to deliver the event’s keynote address, West gave thousands of cheering activists a 30-minute call for slashing federal spending, maintaining America’s military might and defending “definitive American culture” against “multiculturalism . . . on steroids.”
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-by Sharon
Monday actually was always washday on the farm, just like the children’s rhyme indicates it ought to be. All of the clothes would be stacked in rather great heaps in the basement. My remembered washday experiences all anchor in the days after we had electricity. The running water came a little later. So the water (pre-plumbing) would be heated on the stove and carried to the washing machine, which was the standard double-roller wringer on the top, with a rinse tub to the side.
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A freedom infection?…. or Wishful thinking?… (UK Telegraph) Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations. Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers alone.   (more…)

Short Version

If you only watch one video/speech from CPAC this year, this is the one to watch.   Herman Cain stays positive even when he identifies and defines the problem.   First the video …… (more…)