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Protest of Arizona Illegal Immigration Law in Raleigh

My friend, blogger Katy Benningfield, is fearless. She was the only conservative in attendance at a march opposing the Arizona immigation law in Raleigh this week. She even wore a pro Arizona t-shirt she got at the Right Online conference over the weekend.

Read her blog post and watch the excellent video she got.

Best of Right Online 2010

There were many great moments from the Right Online conference.  Unfortunately the video of all the speeches has not yet been uploaded and posted online, but I will post links here when it is. 

Michele Bachmann's speech was one of the best.  It is long, but it is good.  I especially liked her "solution" to the financial crisis we are in today.  It starts around the 31 min. mark.

Update:  My favorite speech from the conference was from Ann McElhinney.  It actually is one of my favorite speeches of all time.  Listen to it all.  You'll thank me.

Other speeches worth a listen were from Mike Pence and Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Must Read -- the JournoListas

Don't miss the excellent post on the JournoListas by Trevor Loudon at Noisy Room. Here's an excerpt.  Be sure to read it all.  Bookmark this one.

This post looks at 106 reported “Journolistas” to look for connections or common threads.

Of the known “Jounolistas” and organizations listed below, many can be linked back to two interrelated groups Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S.’s largest Marxist-based organization and the D.S.A.’s “brain,” the Washington DC-based, far left “think tank,” the Institute for Policy Studies.

Between them, D.S.A. and the I.P.S. dominate or influence several organizations affiliated to JournoList, including:

*The American Prospect – Founded in 1990 by D.S.A. affiliate Robert Kuttner. Current editor-at-large, is leading D.S.A. member Harold Meyerson.

*Mother Jones – Includes D.S.A. member Adam Hochschild on its Board of Directors, plus some D.S.A. affiliated staff and contributors. Hochschild was a supporter of Progressives for Obama.

*Economic Policy Institute - Led by D.S.A. member Larry Mishel and I.P.S. affiliate Jeff Faux and several D.S.A. affiliated board members. This organization has contributed at least three officials to the Obama Administration, including Obama economic adviser and ‘Journolista’ Jared Bernstein.

*Center for American Progress – Several staff and officials are affiliated with D.S.A. and the I.P.S. Writing of the Center’s relationship to the Obama Administration, former Weather Underground terrorist leader and Progressives for Obama supporter Mark Rudd said “There’s a whole govt. in waiting that Podesta has at the Center for American Progress. They’re mostly progressives, I’m told…”

Alvin Greene's Christmas Gift Idea in July

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.  From Alexa Shrugged:

Via Ace of Spades and UK Guardian - Alvin Greene, the crazy jobless guy running for Senate in South Carolina has ideas on how to create jobs:

"Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the kids. That's something that would create jobs. So you see I think out of the box like that. It's not something a typical person would bring up. That's something that could happen, that makes sense. It's not a joke."

Now, before you laugh (and I'm assuming the reporter was laughing and that's why Greene said, "It's not a joke.") is that any crazier than current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying that sending checks to the unemployed is one of the fastest ways to create jobs?

She's right.  One is just about as crazy as the other, but the visual you get in your head with Alvin Greene's idea is much more amusing.  If crazy ideas that will just keep us in the same crummy current job situation can be amusing, that is.