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Cross Post from Jack Yoest with The Carnival of the Capitalists.

Years ago, Your Business Blogger held a (most minor) position in the local Republican party. It was an election; votes were taken. I didn't buy any votes.

But I'm buying now. Vote for Your Business Blogger in the Carnival of the Capitalists. A lucky voter for me gets a t-shirt from the Jollyblogger. Vote here. And leave me a comment.


Jotzel Jotzel has the best articles on Capitalism this week.

And while you are there, visit Lipsticking for an post on Yvonne Talks Gender on the Net.

In any debate between women -- she said/she said, my money's on what she said -- visit Lipsticking.

Now.

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Carnival of the Capitalists is the creation of Jay at AccidentalVerbosity and Rob at BusinessPundit.

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Google has a feature called "Google Current" which is a short 2 minute video round-up of the news. In this clip, the host slams Michelle Malkin . . . and praises Andrew Sullivan.

(HT: Michelle Malkin -- saw her across the room yesterday at CPAC -- seriously beautiful in person. Beauty is as beauty does.)

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Wonder Woman and Right Girl
(Gentlemen bloggers to be identified when I find my notes! Sorry.)
update: Jeff Harrell and Tom Bridge The Conservative Political Action Conference is going on here in DC this week, and bloggers were out in force. Some of the Cotillion ladies were here, so I ran over this afternoon to get a chance to meet them in person.

Wonder Woman and Right Girl have come down from Canada, while Little Miss Attila flew in from the Left Coast. We missed Attila for lunch, but Mary Katherine Ham was also there. And we were joined by LaShawn Barber and Chris Nolan. Chris agreed to be our token liberal -- though never fear, we did not divulge any of the sooper seekrit right-wingnut codes.

Rob Bluey from Human Events graciously agreed to be our token male -- because conservative women like men -- and then even treated us all to lunch! Thanks, Rob.

LaShawn Barber

Rob Bluey and Mary Katherine Ham

Now, in the interest of national security, I really feel that I must disclose that over lunch, MK and Right Girl were developing a smuggling plot: RG would smuggle in Vanilla Coke from Canada for MK -- in exchange for health care. . .

True story.

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A weblog reader wrote to Powerline: "Thanks for Changing the World!" When they wrote about errors on the CBS icon 60 Minutes. And bringing to the public news and expertise that had not been seen anywhere else.

Scott Allen is continuing this trend.

Whenever Your Business Blogger talks with journalists from the Main Stream Media, they always complain that there is no editorial oversight in the blogosphere.

The journalists are wrong. As usual.

Note the emergence and growth of Carnivals. They review and select the best offerings. Weblog readers and writers are segmenting down to narrower and narrower niches with greater and greater expertise.

Until they become like the old joke about Ph.D. dissertations: Knowing more and more about less and less.

And this is good. Blog readers and commenters provide some of the sharpest insight and critique around in any medium. Editorial oversight, as it were.

Here is the case study: Scott Allen has started up a start-up for start ups for weblog readers and writers. Free consulting. Every Week.

At The Carnival of Entrepreneurship. Up and running at Scott's.

Michael Barone, Scott Johnson, Paul Mirengoff
credit: Jack Yoest

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See more on the expertise of Scott Allen in the extended entry.

See Don Surber's Thursday Best Blogs.

Cross post from Jack Yoest.

Continue reading "Carnival of Entrepreneurship - Grand Opening" »

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This is Niagara Falls in 1911 -- when I was a kid we lived in nearby Tonawonda, NY and took all Southern visitors to see the Falls. But I'd never seen this picture. Amazing.

Anyway, I snagged it from Maggie's Farm. Scroll down their page for some funny stuff. . .

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If you are in Washington, D.C., come on by 801 G Street tomorrow morning at 9:30 to join the Blogs for Life gathering!

If you can't be there, tune in to the LIVE WEBCAST, here!

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Cross Post from Jack Yoest

Blogs for LifeOver 50 bloggers have signed up. We will be live blogging the annual March for Life in Your Nation's Capital, Monday 23 January 2006. See Blogs4Life.

The blogger event is co-sponsored by Tim from Pro-Life Blogs and Peter Shinn from March Together and Family Research Council.

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Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., will be assisting with logistics. She blogs at FRCBlog and Reasoned Audacity.

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Cross Post from Jack Yoest

Basil's BlogThe Award Winning Basil's Blog is running an interview with Charmaine from Reasoned Audacity.

Go visit. For the secrets.

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Basil's Blog was a Finalist in the Weblog Awards as Best New Blog for 2005.

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One of my favorite blogs is basil's blog. He interviews other bloggers as a regular feature: today he has an interview with. . . Jack Yoest! It's a lot of fun and even I learned a couple things about a guy I know fairly well. . .

(Tomorrow he is posting an interview with me.)

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Tim Petty of the RSC and Scott Johnson of Powerline

Spent the day today at Blogger Row up on Capitol Hill, covering the Alito hearings, courtesy of the Senate Republican Conference -- who've caught the blogging vision big-time. They brought so many Senators by to see us that it was hard to get blog posts up -- I've got some great quotes coming up for you from Senators Hatch, Brownback and Kyl and Congressman Trent Franks.

Anyway, the real fun, of course was the bloggers! I got to spend the day sitting with Scott Johnson of Powerline, Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters and his First Mate Marcia, Ian Schwartz from Political Teen, Tim Chapman from Townhall.com, Rob Bluey frmo Human Events and Alitoblog.com, Patrick Cleary of National Association of Manufacturers -- they have a blog! -- and Flip from Suitably Flip.

They've all got great coverage of the day.

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Cross Posted From Jack Yoest.

at www.FRCBlog.org. FRC launched the blog on January 6th to promote public education on important policy issues.

The non-profit is on the cutting edge of conversation on the Sam Alito Senate hearings.

I think they are off to a great start as a new group blog. Do visit the FRCBlog and let me know what you think.

Soon, all major corporations and not-for-profits will be hosting blogs. FRC is proving to be an early adopter of this communication channel.

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The Managing Editor of the FRC Blog is Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., who also blogs at Reasoned Audacity. The wife of Your Business Blogger.

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Over at the Corner. Some are really funny. My favorite, from Jonah Goldberg:

Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame will enter talks to launch their own talk/reality show. Even after a sweeps week episode in which Wilson eats 6 pounds of yellow cake from in-between Plame's cleavage with his hands tied behind his back, he will take great offense at anyone who suggests he's a publicity hound.

UPDATE: Took a quick stroll by the Anchoress and found she had weighed in with predictions. This one is hilarious:

Howard Dean will not be DNC chair by the end of the year. He will be replaced by affable eye candy of some sort, capable of bumper-sticker-speak. John Kerry will make all sorts of noises about running again for the WH, but at the last possible moment, he will declare himself uninterested due to his deep committment to the people of Massachusetts. A quick search through his Beacon Hill garbage will reveal a bloody horse's head.

Another favorite from the Corner, from KLO -- you KNOW it will happen:

Hillary Clinton makes a cameo appearance on Commander-in-Chief.

C'mon my Reasoned and Audacious readers. . . what are YOUR predictions??

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. . . be sure to include "Subscribe to Reasoned Audacity."

Hey, it's free.

And it doesn't involve giving up chocolate. . .

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There are 5.7 BILLION phishing fraud emails sent out each month! Amazing. Seems like half of those land in my account.

Here's an interesting online quiz to test your "phishing IQ." I scored very badly -- that's because I thought all but one were frauds.

So I've become a complete skeptic. But what does that say about the future of email as a method of communication for businesses? I automatically delete anything that comes in my inbox from ebay, paypal, and mostly from amazon, too. . .

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The Weblog Awards voting has finished and I just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to go over there and vote for Reasoned Audacity. I've heard from so many of you who kept it up over the long voting period and I really appreciate your support.

Most of all, of course, I appreciate you coming back here to read this blog.

And congratulations to Willisms, who was already one of my favorite blogs, and who is the real winner in this category.

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Jack at Yoest.org and Noah at Okdork.com are having a contest.

A Contest! About Marketing.

The Marketing Department
courtesy www.toothpastefordinner.com,
drawing by drew

Show us your four P's: Product, Price, Promotion, and Placement!

Give us your best on Reach, Frequency, Awareness!

Explain your finest on Branding, on Advertising.

Okdork (Noah Kagan's thoughts on money, entrepreneuring, media, internet and other business things) and Jack are pulling together the best marketing posts.

The Jack and Noah team will each put 4 blog entries on the greatest articles from the year. (Their opinion.)

No entry fees. No cash prizes. Just recognition and bragging rights.

delectare et docere. . .

Submit by December 20th to
best-at-okdork.com
and they will be posted on December 25th.

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Reasoned Audacity is a finalist in the 2005 Weblog Awards! We're in the Best of the Top 501 - 1000 Blogs category.

Here's the shameless plea: please go vote! You can vote once a day starting today through December 15th. So, if you're willing, this is a case where early and often is more than a joke -- it really does count!

I'm really humbled to be in such great company in this category -- and a little sad to be competing against some of my favorite blogs: Willisms, American Princess, Armies of Liberation, Vince aut Morire and MacStansbury.

But not sad enough to not ask you to vote for Reasoned Audacity!! Those are great blogs -- go read them, and then go vote for Reasoned Audacity. Hey, that's the good thing about being a conservative: we like competition.

So go VOTE!! Please!

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As of noon, the poll for this category wasn't up yet -- I'll try to get an update posted when it is.

7:00 UPDATE: The Poll is open!! I so appreciate your vote. . . and most of all, I appreciate you reading Reasoned Audacity!

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President at Annapolis
White House Photo
Michelle Malkin strikes again! And the influence of the blogosphere extends to the White House. . .

I had a note from the Chairman last night, telling me to read closely the President's speech on Iraq at the Naval Academy yesterday. Particularly this passage:

One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year. After he died, a letter was found on his laptop computer. Here's what he wrote, he said, "[I]f you're reading this, then I've died in Iraq. I don't regret going. Everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so they can live the way we live. Not [to] have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.

There is only one way to honor the sacrifice of Corporal Starr and his fallen comrades -- and that is to take up their mantle, carry on their fight, and complete their mission.

Next, the Chairman reminded me where it was that I first had heard the name "Corporal Starr." Take a look at the headline from Michelle Malkin's October 28th post, "CPL. JEFFREY B. STARR: WHAT THE NYTIMES LEFT OUT."

The New York Times had run a story on the 2,000th soldier killed in Iraq, and Corporal Starr was one soldier featured.

Michelle, however, broke a big story by exposing how the NYT had misrepresented Jeffrey as someone who was fatigued by the war, and anxious to get out of the Marines. In fact, as the quote the President used in his speech illustrates, Jeffrey believed strongly in his mission.

Good work, Michelle.

And God Bless our soldiers.

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I'm so excited: my friend Mike (aka "Waco Kid") has made the code to his Ipso Facto cartoon available! So look left for a new cartoon daily here at Reasoned Audacity -- and then stroll over to Ipso Facto headquarters to check out some past ones you might have missed. And, then, tell a friend.

Here's my all time favorite!

Thanks Mike!

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Crossed Posted at Jack Yoest


Coming December 1st
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See the Weblog Awards site. Good reads.

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