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The Amazing Amazon Reviews of CPAC’s Terrible Reading List

Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/04/16 09:29AM

Here at CPAC—the premiere conference and networking event of the conservative movement, which I’ll be attending for the next two days—most things are free. The NRA beer koozie? Free. An “I’m Ready For Freedom, Not Free Stuff” poster? You guessed it—free. A gold-plated, life-size pin of a fetus’s feet? Free, and I took two. But the conference is selling one thing for money: Books.

Marco Rubio Could Give a Shit

Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/23/16 01:25PM

The group behind CPAC—the nation’s favored gathering for white conservatives who want to take a selfie with a GOP candidate—today issued a statement calling Marco Rubio’s decision to skip the annual mutual admiration conference a “rookie move.”

Pizza Patriots: Day One at CPAC

Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/06/14 07:37PM

The first thing you notice about CPAC, the conservative answer to Comic Con, are the lines.