Some final thoughts, before I head back to the hotel and try to rinse all this strained GOP enthusiasm (and a splash or two of barmaid, whose name I’ve forgotten) off of me: 1) Were one to scroll through the photos of the PJM Xpress bloggers — the new mainstream GOP media’s picks for who gets to frame “conservatism” on the web for the next few years — one cannot

From Jammie Wearing Fool: Shocking, isn’t it? The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found. Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show. Most donations were organized and

The art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged a visiting Hollywood delegation to apologise for “insults and slanders” about Iranians in films, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. “(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with… Hollywood movie makers when they apologise to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders,” Javad Shamaghdari said. “The Iranian people and our revolution has been

Hot chicks with conservatives edition! Knuckle-draggers Patrick Poole says bloggers were the red-headed stepchildren of CPAC, and adds: This year’s CPAC was the largest on record. It was encouraging to see the large herds of students moving throughout the hotel. Unfortunately, the constant theme those students heard during this year’s CPAC was that the proper role of the conservative movement is as cheerleader for the GOP. I must strongly dissent.