Meet Ben Carson, the Gifted Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Rising Right-Wing Star

This morning, Ben Carson spoke at the CPAC conference, a day after a panel on ‘the race card’ failed spectacularly, with some audience members defending slavery. Carson is a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins and a conservative who gently criticized Obama’s healthcare policies while speaking in front of him at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast. Since then, he has become a sensation among conservative bloggers and today at CPAC, announced his intention to leave behind medicine to focus on education initiatives, and possibly a future in politics. More »