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So wrote Richard Viguerie, the "Funding Father" of the modern conservative movement, in his 2006 book "Conservatives Betrayed."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared alongside other conservatives on a panel at CPAC Friday where they laid out their vision for criminal-justice reform.

New Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe did his flesh-pressing best the past several weeks during bipartisan, after-hours soirees/shoot-the-breeze sessions at the executive mansion.

BRADENTON, Fla., March 6, 202012 -- If you could really scrape below the surface of objective reality and peer into the unconscious minds of Republicans who will vote today in 10 states for their choice of presidential nominees, which of the key issues in the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Sanctorum would really be ... (more)

Today might as well be a national holiday for space junkies as the classic TV series starring Carl Sagan "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" returns on Fox for a sequel, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

While Russia beefed up its forces in Ukraine and the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up slightly, President Obama was criticized for spending the weekend on vacation with his family at an ultra-exclusive private community in the Florida Keys.

Interesting that on the final day of the annual fantasy called the Conservative Political Action Conference, the rabid right wing trotted out the laughable Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann to claim the Republicans better serve women because "we are the party, the only party, that had a woman on the Presidential ballot this century."

It what could only be recognized as the biggest Maine political story of the 21st Century, I received a tip yesterday that made me question reality: Former Speaker and lifelong Democrat, John L. Martin of Eagle Lake, had turned Republican and was running in a primary against Republican Rep. Michael Nadeau of Fort Kent for House seat 151! I ... (more)

Rand Paul romped, Ted Cruz flopped. Chris Christie made nice with the right and Marco Rubio learned that talking up foreign interventionism is about the last way to win over the crowd.

Kaiser calls former House Speaker Newt Gingrich 'the most effective and most destructive political figure I encountered in five decades.'

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Saturday, March 8, 2014.

Newt Gingrich is urging Republicans to paint Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' expected 2016 nominee for president, as an obstacle to economic progress in order to win back the White House.

In the opening speech of the final day of CPAC 2014 , former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on Republicans to position themselves as the party of innovative solutions if they want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich urged CPAC-goers on Saturday to make the GOP a party of big ideas rather than just fighting against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

NOVEMBER 22: Sarah Palin signs copies of her new book 'Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas' on November 21, 2013 at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.

In 2012, I got a lengthy email from a well-known pastor endorsing Newt Gingrich for the Republican nomination.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin headline the third and final day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings thousands of activists, opinion leaders and Republican officials to suburban Washington.

Does attacking Hillary Clinton work? Newt Gingrich and Paul Begala debate with David Bossie and Stephanie Shriock about conservatives attacking Hillary Clinton.