The IRS admitted yesterday that the agency singled out approximately 75 conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny and auditing in advance of the 2012 election. While the agency apologized for overstepping its legal bounds, there was no word forthcoming on who ordered the witch-hunt and whether those responsible will be fired or reprimanded.
When Coca-Cola changed its recipe and rebranded itself as New Coke, the world recoiled in horror. What does New Coke have to do with conservative politics? Who is the classic conservative and who is the new conservative? Does the marketing plan of Pepsi resemble progressivism? Find out what Bill Whittle thinks. H/T PJTV
Let the liberals be Luddites. Let Democrats be the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling party. Joshua Jacobs, co-founder of the Conservative Future Project, is reaching out to Republicans, urging them to embrace an open-ended future filled with driverless cars, stem-cell research and private space exploration.
If that sounds like a tall order for a party whose leading presidential candidates in 2012 waffled on whether they believed in evolution, you’re right. But Jacobs argues forcefully that the GOP is no less anti-science than the Democrats and actually has a long history of pushing scientific and technological innovation.
Nick Gillespie sat down with Jacobs in Reason’s D.C. studio to talk about how conservatives might stop standing athwart history yelling stop and march boldly into the future.
Newt Gingrich says we need a couple of years worth of turmoil and argument to shape the future of conservatism. The debate, he says, can be healthy, reminding listeners of all the commotion that originally surrounded Ronald Reagan’s bold ideas. Gingrich spoke with the Tea Party News Network’s Scottie Nell Hughes in advance of his speech at this year’s CPAC or the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Killer Fawn offers some straight talk to the GOP’s conservative leadership: Nut up or shut up.
Conservative pundits Tammy Bruce and Stephen Kruiser reflects on the major lessons learned from the 2012 election defeat, namely, that the Republicans need to step up their ground game and not take anything for granted given the volatile electorate and country’s changing demographics. H/T PJTV
Conservatives want to win back the country, but to accomplish that, they first must win the culture. That’s the word from Alfonzo Rachel who warns that anything less is the equivalent of trying to paint without laying down a tarp or doing any masking. Hear his thoughts in this edition of ZoNation. H/T PJTV
Alfonzo Rachel wades into the swamp and tries to clear the air on why conservatives have a bad rap. Needless to say, he finds Liberals and Democrats have been more adept at using weasel words and distorting rhetoric to bury their racist history. He lays it out in this edition of ZoNation. H/T PJTV
