First time at the Conservative Political Action Committee. It is the right year to make that particular debut. There were 12,000-plus people there, and one felt intense delight in feeling so in synch with the gathering -- they were all on the right side of the left-right ledger. It was the biggest turnout in the history of CPAC. The speeches and presentations were fabulous, some so funny it could have been a nightclub (Ann Coulter), some so magnificent our waves of applause were unbroken from one thought or statement to the next (Florida's Allen West -- a man some think might in a few years be president -- he already carries himself with the gravitas of a hero and a leader, which I believe he is).  We went from early a.m. to late p.m., going from ballroom to meeting space, from 3,000 in a room and overflow, to a packed room or two with 'only' 100 or so (on the history of the current Israeli/Arab situation), in a room so hard to find it was amazing to us that...(Read Full Post)