Katie Pavlich of Townhall.com, whose exposé of the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal became a national bestseller, was awarded “Blogger of the Year” honors Saturday at the 40th Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Pavlich, a 24-year-old graduate of the University of Arizona, is widely recognized as a rising star of conservative New Media. She is news editor of Townhall.com and the youngest regular contributor at Fox News. Her book, Fast […]

U.S. anti-terrorism policy is not “realistic” if it does not recognize the reality of Islamism as an ideology, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Saturday at an event for those who were not invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “Some suburbs of Paris are a no-go zone for police and firefighters,” said Mukasey, a former federal judge who led the Department of Justice in the final two years of the […]

Online security reporter Brian Krebs published an article Wednesday about “a Web site that sells access to consumer credit reports for $15 per report,” perhaps illegally. His popular Krebs on Security site was then targeted by hackers and … On Thursday, he became one of the first journalists to be on the receiving end of a vicious hoax that prompted a raid on his Northern Virginia home by a swarm […]

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum praised the new Pope in a briefing for bloggers Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “I am excited about this Pope, because he is a man that has the heart of the people,” said Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and devout Catholic, in response to a question about the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. “Francis I understands the mission of the Church.” […]

Attendees at the 40th Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have been pleased by the events move to the Gaylord Resort Hotel and Convention Center at National Harbor, Maryland. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Gregg Keller, executive director of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual event that some have called a “Mardi Gras of the Right.” CPAC had previously been in northwest Washington, D.C., at the Marriott […]

The late Andrew Breitbart “was truly one of a kind,” David Bossie said Thursday as he introduced Breitbart’s last movie, Occupy Unmasked, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Breitbart “embodied the essence of a warrior,” said Bossie, president of Citizens United, the conservative advocacy group that produced the documentary film about the anti-capitalist movement that began in fall 2011 with the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. “This is Andrew Breitbart’s last great […]

Last year’s terrorist attack in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, demonstrated not only “derelection of duty” by President Obama, but also the failure of the news media, conservatives declared Thursday. “American journalism is dead,” said Roger Noriega, who served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Bush administration. “Rather than raise the tough questions [about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi] they […]

The appearance of white smoke above the Vatican shortly after 2 p.m. ET today announced the news: “We have a Pope.” It was immediately reported by the Associated Press and red-siren headlined at the Drudge Report. Catholics worldwide now await the name of the new pontiff. UPDATE: This will be the 266th Pope, Nicole Winfield of the Associated Press reports: The pope, whose identity isn’t yet known, is due to […]

When the National Republican Senatorial Committee posted a mock fundraising letter for Ashley Judd’s anticipated Kentucky Senate campaign, they made fun of the 44-year-old actress for many things: Her summer home in Scotland, her status as a 2012 Tennessee delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and her condemnation of Christianity as a religion that “legitimizes and seals male power.” One thing the NRSC didn’t mention: Judd’s history of serious mental illness. […]