At a convention marked by extreme speeches and occasional conspiracy theories delivered from the podium, the question going into Saturday night’s keynote finale from Sarah Palin was: How extreme would she get in order to ingratiate herself with her audience?  more

Looking forward, the Tea Party organizers have big plans. But my view is that the movement will soon start to fall apart, if it hasn’t already.  more

The Tea Party Convention has managed to put a conservative face on a movement that, if not quite mainstream, is at least respectable. That changed with one long dumb speech from WorldNetDaily chief Joseph Farah, one of the leaders of the so-called Birther movement.  more

They just gave an ovation to a shout-out to James O’Keefe… Last seen getting arrested in a Senator’s office.  more

Having spent the day listening to speeches at the Tea Party National Convention and talking to delegates, the one thing that has really surprised me is the high level of explicitly Christian social conservatism on display.  more

When David and I started together at the National Post at the paper’s launch in 1998, both of us approached our job in roughly the same way. In the morning, we would check in with a supervising editor, discuss topics and word count, and then settle on an assignment. We’d work through the day, researching   more