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7:30 AM, Feb 15, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Politico: "Payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits: Congress nears deal"

Michael Calderone: "Conservatives At CPAC Search For The Right's Woodward And Bernstein"

Tucker Carlson: "Media Matters memo called for hiring private investigators ‘to look into the personal lives’ of Fox employees"

Ramesh Ponnuru: "Our Religious-Freedom Baseline"

CBS News: "Panetta doubts Israel has decided on Iran attack"

4:25 PM, Feb 11, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

The results are in from the CPAC straw poll: Mitt Romney has won. Here's the tally:

Mitt Romney: 38 percent

His rhetoric is improving, but he still needs to look up "rousing" in the dictionary.

2:45 PM, Feb 10, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Mitt Romney's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference today was a step in the right direction for the candidate on many levels. He tacitly acknowledged that he wasn't steeped in conservative ideology at the same time he paid homage to it, noting that growing up he would have mistaken Burke and Hayek for members of the Detroit Tigers lineup. He all but micturated on the grave of compassionate conservatism by proclaiming that he was a "severely conservative" governor of Massachussetts.

Can Marco Rubio prevail?

Aug 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44 • By FRED BARNES

Orlando

George F. Will on the welfare state.

10:59 AM, Apr 27, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

These are great days for George Will fans. His classic baseball book, Men at Work, has been reissued.

The insurgents meet the insiders.

Mar 1, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 23 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

It was a good week for proclamations, with Washington conservative leaders, tea party activists, and the GOP all touting statements of principle as thousands of conservatives came to town for the annual CPAC conference. The GOP’s statement has yet to be released, but each group’s intentions have nonetheless been scrutinized and parsed by the media in what feels like a political version of the eHarmony compatibility test.

The GOP establishment feels the heat.

Mar 1, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 23 • By FRED BARNES

George Will at work.

4:57 PM, Feb 19, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

I've been watching CPAC on C-SPAN so you don't have to. And by far, the best speech of the conference has been George F. Will's talk from last night.

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