Below The Beltway

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan spoke at the Army-Navy Club early this month, and his speech is worth watching in full:
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The latest example of the wackiness that is Glenn Beck comes from this afternoon’s radio show:

BECK: If I could just — if we could just be like Cuba. Let me give you the last piece of evidence that there is a revolution going on, and it is coming. It is — there is a revolution, [...]

Once again, the nuts at World Net Daily are embarrassing themselves and the rest of the right:
The Web site Worldnetdaily.com says that the government is considering Nazi-like concentration camps for dissidents.
Jerome Corsi, the author of “The Obama Nation,” an anti-Obama book, says that a proposal in Congress “appears designed to create the type of detention [...]

Yet more evidence that the Democrats intend to turn the health care debate into a request to “honor” the memory of Senator Kennedy:
Q: How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?
A: I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re going to have a new chairman of that [...]

John Stossel explains it well:

Bruce Bartlett, a former Reagan Administration official who’s been very critical of the GOP since the rise of George W. Bush, explains why he’s been so critical of the GOP recently:
The party got seriously on the wrong track during the George W. Bush years, as I explained in my Impostor book. In my opinion, it [...]

Last week at a function in Las Vegas, Harry Reid told the advertising director of the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he hoped that his paper went out of business:
On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n’-greet and a photo. One of the [...]

Guys, if you’re gonna engage in a little political trickery at least be smart about it:
Bob McDonnell’s campaign received a call this morning from a woman who called herself “Jennifer” and claimed to be a freelance reporter from the Connection newspapers in Northern Virginia. She asked for information about McDonnell’s schedule.
The problem? She isn’t a [...]

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick set a special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat at the same time he announced support for an effort to change state election laws:
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Monday that the special election to fill the Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat will be held in January, but said he wants to make [...]

Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant who found herself riled in controversy after answering a question about gay marriage and then lost her title as Miss California after failing to abide by her contractual duties has filed a lawsuit against the pageant owners alleging religious discrimination:
RANCHO SANTA FE, CA – Carrie Prejean’s attorney, Charles S. [...]