One of the nation's leading online conservative magazines has named former vice president Dick Cheney "Conservative of the Year" for 2009.

Cheney, who tops out at No. 4 on our list of the most influential conservatives of the last decade, was given the honor by HumanEvents.com, thanks to what the magazine's editors believe to be his new beltway clout and his willingness to speak out on policy issues even when not seeking higher office.

Human Events was one of Ronald Reagan's favorite newspapers when he was president, and it has blossomed into one of the most influential conservative magazines on the Internet.

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For conservatives, 2009 was a tough year.

From the moment President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January until the Senate passed a middle-of-the-night health care reform bill in December, conservatives fought uphill battles all the way to the bitter end.

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An auto mechanic in Rockwall, Texas, apparently as bewildered as many Americans by President Barack Obama's highly questionable award from the Nobel Prize Committee in October 2009, has decided to cash in on the honor himself: by handing out free Nobel Peace Prizes with every oil change.

The "prizes" are really stickers which read, "Conferred for the effort and peaceful intention of getting the oil and filter changed."

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Two hundred and thirty-six years ago today, a group of revolutionary colonists known as the "Sons of Liberty" disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded three English ships and pitched more than 300 crates of tea overboard to protest British Parliament's new tax-heavy Tea Act.

The Dec. 16, 1773 demonstration, which came to be known as the Boston Tea Party, was a defining moment in American history, as it marked the beginning of the colonists' struggle for independence. Two and a half years later, on July 4, 1776, this fight would culminate in the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

In the past year, the Boston Tea Party has taken on a new meaning for conservatives in 2009. The election of President Barack Obama in 2008 ushered in a new European socialist model of governance in the US, creating a backlash among taxpayers on the right.

The lack of bipartisanship following the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka "The Stimulus Package") in February outraged many conservatives, as did the rumors that Obama planned to raise taxes significantly to pay for more social programs. The first Tax Day Tea Party protest was subsequently held on April 15 in more than 300 US cities.

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