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This year, in a nod to the younger generation's swelling ranks, CPAC presented a dedicated social arm: XPAC - Xtreme Politically Active Conservatives - founded by actor Stephen Baldwin, which is hosting a gaming room and live events targeted to the young throughout the three-day conference. Baldwin said Thursday in a speech announcing XPAC that for last year's younger crowd, "there wasn't exactly, demographically, a whole lot that was here at CPAC for them - to come together, share their ideas and have a platform and fellowship...
...other hand, the party wasn't always hopping. The schedule read, "11 p.m. XPAC Rap/Jam Session, live music and special performances by Rappers: Hi-Caliber, Young Cons and many more!" Alas, the reality - as a group of young Harvard conservatives found - was an empty room with a bunch of Wii video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond...
There are plenty of parties left through the weekend. Friday's line-up included another round of drinks with Tim Pawlenty at Gin & Tonic (with a guest appearance by Virginia Governor Bob McDonald); a party at George, a trendy Georgetown bar; a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) happy hour to celebrate the launch of New Guard magazine at Murphy's Pub in Woodley Park; various receptions with conservative stars such as Ann Coulter and Monica Crowley; an XPAC comedy night; and the 6th annual Reaganpalooza Saturday at the Hawk and Dove bar on Capitol Hill. "This is like our Woodstock...
...original version of this article misidentified the Young Americans Foundation as the host of a "happy hour to celebrate the launch of The New Guard Magazine at Murphy's Pub in Woodley Park." It was in fact hosted by Young Americans for Freedom...
Egyptian activists, most of them young, were out in force in the midday sun on Friday, Feb. 19, their flags and posters raised high, their chants rippling across the pavement at the arrival terminal of Cairo International Airport. They had come out in a startling show of support for a candidate who has yet to declare his candidacy for the presidency of Egypt...