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CPAC invites Islamist groups and a Soros-front for drug legalization to influence the next generation of conservatives. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is an institution. Now in its 32nd year, CPAC is the largest annual gathering of grassroots activists on the Right. But, when it comes to co-sponsors, CPAC and its parent group, the American Conservative Union, are keeping strange company.CPAC always has a lustrous line-up of speakers. Ann Coulter, Oliver North, George Will, Senator Rick Santorum, and Vice President Dick Cheney all addressed this year’s conference. For the most part, the panel discussions and workshops were informative.Increasingly, CPAC...

for immediate release February 10, 2006 Prohibitionists Duck Debate at Conservative Conference After Final Offer of Balanced Debate, Drug Free America Foundation’s Calvina Fay Declines for Second Time After Canceling Scheduled Appearance WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calvina Fay, Executive Director of the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. declined to participate in a panel discussion with Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Executive Director Rob Kampia at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday morning. Fay's refusal to publicly discuss the government's focus on marijuana follows her last-minute cancellation Monday of a separate 10-minute debate over the war on drugs. The cancellation...

Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation has pulled out as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which begins in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, because a “mini-debate” she was scheduled to appear in had been stacked against her. As it now stands, the event will feature two advocates of drug legalization, both of them funded by leftist billionaire and anti-Bush activist George Soros. Having put most of the left-wing political movement and many liberal Democrats on his payroll, it is apparent that Soros is now working to manipulate the conservative movement. It is surprising that CPAC...