It is quite generous of CPAC to pay tribute through us to the websites, both great and small, who soldier on in the conservative cause.

At our best we are the ‘citizen journalists’ whom Matt Drudge envisioned ten years ago at his pivotal National Press Club appearance.

We report the news that the rest of the media ignore. And we expose the biases in the stories they do report. We are the media’s real fact checkers.

May our numbers increase a thousand-fold.

And with the encouragement and recognition of organizations like CPAC, which is the heart and soul of the modern American conservative movement, we believe they will.

(Of course some of us are still open to Soros money, as well.)

Invited speakers for the 36th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference include: Gov. Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Amb. John Bolton, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Michael Barone, David Horowitz and many other conservative luminaries.