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This weekend, I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, which was held at a convention center in northern Kentucky, a few miles away from Cincinnati. What I saw and heard there changed my mind about the viability of Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy; Paul is going to far outperform the expectations laid out for him. First, for some background: twenty years ago, the Second Amendment Foundation (the second-largest pro-Second Amendment group in the U.S.) began sponsoring an annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, in conjunction with other pro-gun groups, including the NRA. For a full...

Convention at LV Hilton can bring out a little Andorian in anyone It must be difficult to publicly maintain that you are not a geek when, in fact, your T-shirt proclaims as much, and you're standing next to your big sister at a "Star Trek" convention. Nevertheless, that's what Jim Moorhouse did Thursday, the first day of this year's trekkie gathering at the Las Vegas Hilton: the fourth annual Official Star Trek Convention. "I like to say I'm destroying the stereotype because I'm cool," said Moorhouse, 38, a public relations rep for a sports league who really did seem like...