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Cpac's Odd Tango With Milo Yiannopoulos

... in a particularly tribal moment in American politics in which “the enemy of my enemy is my ally” is the most powerful argument around. Evolutionary psychologist John Tooby recently wrote that if he could explain one scientific concept to the public, it would be the “coalitional instinct.” In our natural habitat, to be alone was to be vulnerable. If “you had no coalition, you were nakedly at the mercy of everyone else, so the instinct to belong to a coalition has urgency, pre-existing and superseding any policy-driven basis for membership,” Tooby wrote on __link__. “This is why group beliefs are free to be so weird.”. We overlook the hypocrisies and shortcomings within our coalition out of a desire to protect ourselves from our enemies. Today, the right sees the left as enemies — and, I should say, vice versa. Yiannopoulos is a hero for many because he fights political correctness and is transgressive. A flamboyant provocateur who wears his homosexuality on his sleeve and acts very much like a left-wing performance artist, Yiannopoulos ...

Cpac, Transgender Students And Nasa's Exoplanet Discovery

... told reporters after the space agency made its announcement. Katy Perry appears to mock Trump at BRIT Awards. Pop star Katy Perry performed her latest single Chained to the Rhythm at yesterday’s BRIT Awards, considered the British version of the Grammys. Social media users were quick to compare two dancing skeleton props she used onstage to Trump and U. K. Prime Minister Theresa May. A former USA Gymnastics doctor has been charged with sexual assault. Hundreds of people protested in Anaheim, Calif. after a purported police gunfire video went viral. Muslim-Americans helped raise more than $113,000 to help a vandalized Jewish cemetery repair hundreds of gravesites. Cats don’t increase your risk for developing mental health problems, a new study has found. Mc Donald's will sell $1 sodas of any size starting in April. The Morning Brief is published Mondays through Fridays. ...

Cpac In The Trump Era

... has a role in the conservative movement. That doesn't mean that through the first amendment that our attendees shouldn't get the ability to hear a vigorous debate that's raging across the country. And we want to put that before them. Look. We believe that it is better when we air our political differences, left to right. And even within the conservative movement, give our attendees a chance to hear it. We think that helps us find the truth. I think that's actually something we have in common with NPR. MARTIN: Steve Bannon is speaking at CPAC today. He's the president's top adviser who ran Breitbart News, which he proclaimed to be a platform for the so-called alt-right. Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence went to a Jewish cemetery in Missouri this week to signal his support after that cemetery was vandalized. And then pens went on to say there's no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism. Is this the party of Mike Pence or Steve Bannon. SCHLAPP: It's the party of both. And I know Steve Bannon well. And I think Steve Bannon and Mike Pence, you couldn't find a difference in how they approach these ...

Cpac Attendees Weigh In On Trump's Lifting Of Transgender Bathroom Rule

... in Harrisonburg, Va. FRANKLIN DEBROT: Well, I don't see transgender students - people like that - facing the same kind of discrimination that black people did, for instance, 50 years ago. It's not the same kind of a thing. The Obama administration was trying to lump, conflate all these different people who claim to have this problem or that problem. SHAPIRO: LGBT advocates say what the Trump administration has just done puts transgender students at greater risk of bullying. Mary Frances Varner of Alexandria, Va., disagrees. MARY FRANCES VARNER: I think schools are schools, and kids are kids. There's always going to be a fight on the playground. That's how we grow up, and that's how we learn things. There's a big difference between those kinds of things and bullying. And I think there's been such strong campaigns against bullying, which I agree with, that - I think it's apples and oranges. MIKE BARTELS: I mean, we should recognize that discrimination is a thing. I think that's something that a lot of people have difficulty realizing. But at the same time, the fact that this amount of power is being kind of ...

White Nationalist Richard Spencer Kicked Out Of Cpac

... outside Washington, D. C., talking with reporters. That's when CPAC officials were alerted to Spencer's presence. "His views are repugnant and have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here," said CPAC spokesman Ian Walters. Spencer purchased a general admission pass Thursday morning, Walters said. "He's anti-free markets, anti-Constitution, anti-pluralism," Walters added. "This was one bad egg who bought a ticket.". He described the alt-right and Spencer's views as "vile," "venomous," "horrible" and "repulsive.". CPAC is trying to send a message that it wants nothing to do with the so-called alt-right, a white nationalist movement that latched on to Donald Trump's rise. The president's chief strategist in the White House, Steve Bannon, ran Breitbart, which he called a "platform for the alt-right." Bannon and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are speaking at CPAC Thursday afternoon. ...

A Top Conservative Said The Alt-right Are Actually 'left-wing Fascists

... duped," he told thousands of grassroots conservatives. "Just a few years ago, this hate-filled left-wing fascist group hijacked the very term 'alt-right.' That term has been used for a long time in a very good and normal way.". Read More: How Donald Trump Is Bringing the Alt-Right to the White House. The speech was the latest salvo in an ongoing war among conservatives about what to do about the alt-right, which was galvanized by President Trump's populist campaign for the White House. Some members of the American Conservative Union's board, including President Matt Schlapp, rallied around Trump despite concerns about his breaks from conservative ideology. CPAC also controversially invited—and then disinvited— right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to give a speech at the annual event. Citing a meeting of white nationalists in Washington in November in which attendees made Nazi ...

Read The Transcript Of Kellyanne Conway's Remarks At Cpac

... myself of it almost every day. I was young in my career, my company was a year old. I was a CNN paid political analyst at the time. And somebody called from a speaking agency and said, hey, we have a request from this financial institution for you and Mark Mellman, Democratic pollster, obviously a man, to come and speak to us on September 28 th, about the elections. And I said, OK. And the man said, it's September 28, you can each speak for 20 minutes, then we'll take 20 minutes Q&A preview, which we think will happen in the election, and talk to us a little bit about public policy. I said, that sounds great. It'll be at the Mayflower Hotel, which I can see out my office window. I literally was a block and half from there. They said, what is your speaking fee? And I froze. I completely froze because for me, even with my law degree at the time, for me free speech was not the First Amendment, it was let's go call Kellyanne, she'll come, she'll talk for free. And I froze because I knew no matter what I said in return to the question of what is ...

President Trump To Speak At Cpac Gathering Near Washington

... The event opened Thursday morning near Washington, D. C. Many in the conservative movement are working to overcome doubts about the depth of Trump’s dedication to the cause. He skipped the event last year and only accepted his invitation to this year’s meeting a few days ago. “I didn’t have any confidence in him advancing a conservative agenda, but guess what, that’s exactly what he’s doing,” one man said. “I think he’ll do fantastic with the economy, I think he’ll well with the immigration problem that we have in this country,” one woman said. “I think he’s making quite a statement, a statement of respect to the conservative movement, which is the heart and soul of the Republican party that I’m going to dance with the one who brung me, which is what Ronald Reagan said. And I think they’re going to appreciate it very much,” CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp said. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was among the first speakers at the event. He offered ...

A Look Inside Cpac's Swag Room

... CPAC is holding its annual conference, is a special room. It’s called the swag room. It has an anti-abortion van, and everything except the Ronald Reagan knee socks are free—even the Sheriff David Clarke chapstick. Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of CPAC Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of CPAC Liveblogging From Inside the Beast-It's Day 1 of…. The Conservative Political Action Conference—a sort of conservative cosplay event where women in… Read more Read more. The swag room, a large ballroom filled with booths draped in red cloth, is a demented tour through the tenets of conservatism. This year, the NRA switched booths with Breitbart, taking a branding backseat to the website, whose massive display occupies the focal point of the room. Across the end, towards the back, is parked a Mercedes sprinter, which the pro-life group Save ...

Devos, Defiant At Cpac, Walks A Fine Line On Transgender Rights

... Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Thursday at National Harbor, Md. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption. toggle caption. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Education Secretary Betsy De Vos addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center Thursday at National Harbor, Md. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Trump's education secretary, Betsy De Vos, struck a defiant tone in brief remarks before conservative activists at a political conference outside Washington, D. C., on Thursday. But she held back on the administration's rescinding of Obama administration guidance to schools on transgender rights. "This issue was a very huge example of Obama administration overreach, one-size-fits-all approach to issues best solved at personal and local level," De Vos told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC. With Protests, Both Obama And Trump White Houses Saw 'Manufactured' Anger. De Vos added that she and the Trump administration have "made clear, it's our job to protect students and teachers' ...

At Cpac, Ted Cruz Says The Democratic Base Is 'bat-crap Crazy

... fall behind any country even if it's a friendly country, we're never going to fall behind on nuclear power," he said. The Ploughshares Fund organization says the United States has 6,800 warheads, compared with Russia's 7,000. New START, a strategic arms limitation treaty between the U. S. and Russia, requires that both countries curb their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons to equal levels by Feb. 5, 2018, keeping them there for 10 years. Trump told Reuters this was a "one-sided deal," and he's "going to start making good deals.". Along with weeding through its nuclear stockpile, the U. S. is spending $1 trillion over 30 years to modernize its aging bombers, land-based missiles, and ballistic missile submarines. Daryl Kimball, executive director of the nonprofit Arms Control Association, told Reuters that both the U. S. and Russia have "far more weapons than is necessary to deter nuclear attack by the other or by another nuclear-armed country." Catherine Garcia. Vittorio Zumino Celotto/Getty Images/. In addition to white people, Richard Spencer also loves the band ...