“CPAC” on The Daily Caller

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference kicked off Thursday at the Wardham Marriott in Washington, D.C. Like every year, it was packed full of the conservative movement’s most celebrated figures, from the smart to the off-the-charts nutty. (more)

Protesters at the “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by the AFL-CIO and Occupy DC to target the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, were unaware of what they were protesting against Friday afternoon. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” 19 times during his much-anticipated Conservative Political Action Conference speech Friday afternoon. (more)

Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. (more)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign is handing out Conservative Political Action Conference speaker schedules to event attendees, with not-so-subtle jabs at his GOP rivals included. (more)

1.) We now know of more celebrities than terrorists who have been waterboarded — TheDC’s Taylor Bigler reports that actor Denzel Washington has been waterboarded: (more)

Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart told The Daily Caller on Thursday that the Obama administration’s recent clashes with the Catholic Church are “a form of thuggery” against religious Americans. (more)

If you drive into the quiet Woodley Park section of Washington, D.C. today, you will find an area lined with elegant residential homes and embassies. Then you will come across a disconcerting scene. At one end of a street there is a large contingent of uniformed police. The street is blocked off with crime tape. Anchoring the area is a large Special Operations Division mobile command center that hums with activity. Marked and unmarked cars prowl the neighborhood. (more)

The culture wars have been as heated as ever over the past few weeks, and participants at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. on Thursday did not shy away from any of it. (more)

Organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference are being accused by a liberal organization of allowing two white nationalist speakers to participate in its annual gathering of conservative activists this week in Washington, D.C. (more)

Minnesota congresswoman and former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann used her rock-star status at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference to warn right-leaning Americans about what she said was a dangerous Obama administration foreign policy. (more)

Democrats and independents showed up in large numbers for Tuesday’s Republican Iowa caucuses — a 179 percent increase from 2008 — with nearly half of independents throwing their support behind Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who came in third place. (RELATED: Romney wins Iowa caucuses, Santorum places close second) (more)

ORLANDO, Fla. – Attention shifted from the Republican presidential candidates at CPAC  and the debate in Florida, Friday, when the state’s U.S. Senate candidates took the main stage to introduce themselves to voters. (more)

FreedomWorks, a bellwether tea party organization, will join the growing list of advocacy groups to launch a Super PAC, it announced Tuesday. The official launch of FreedomWorks for America (FWFA) will take place at the Florida CPAC convention later this week. (more)

On Feb. 11, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, his wife and three aides flew in a luxury jet to Washington for a weekend of politicking, including an appearance on Fox News Sunday and a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Our problem is not that we tax too little,” Barbour told the gathering. “It’s that we spend too much.” (more)

The gay conservative group GOProud doesn’t regret inviting real-estate mogul and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak at a conservative conference last week, even though he donated $50,000 to former White House Chief of Staff and Democratic Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel. (more)