A few years back, National Review posted the “Best Conservative Movies” here. If it were published today, “Never Let Me Go” from 2010 might top the list, or at least sneak in behind “The Lives of Others.” It is a movie about a vile tyranny that fails to recognize the dignity of individual human life. It is as compelling as “Schindler’s List” or Orwell’s 1984.

Today marks an anniversary of true bravery for the cause of liberty. On February 22, 1943, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine in Munich, Germany. Their crimes? Anonymously distributing leaflets criticizing the German government at the University of Munich.

This year I spoke at CPAC on a panel about the Justice Department with Andy McCarthy and Hans von Spakovsky. I had never been to CPAC or anything like it, though you’d think I was on the organizing committee if you read Media Matters.

Over the weekend, a conference was held about how to leverage Voting Rights Act to maximize Latino political power. The conference itself was “made possible by the generous contribution of their meeting facilities by SEIU 32 BJ and donations by an anonymous member of friends of the NiLP.”