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The American Renaissance Film Festival is in full swing and Jessica and I have been having a great time.

We began our day with mid-day beers at the theatre bar, as much because we wanted beers as because 'hey, they're serving beers at the movie theatre' (something that does not exist in NYC). We started talking to this Israeli guy who turned out to be the proud father of Kfir of Protest Warrior. We met Kfir and Alan, who were really friendly despite having achieved obvious celebrity status. They were there to show a film about a Protest Warrior march in DC. It was the first in a three-film set, and the first film Jessica and I attended. I had seen Protest Warrior videos before but the anger, violence and hate of the leftists is so much more pronounced on a big screen.

The second film we saw was about Ann Coulter. It was a short documentary about her featuring clips from her speeches. As I said when I walked out of the theatre, I owe Ann Coulter an apology. Yes, she does go too far sometimes (for my taste) but she is extremely intelligent with a great sense of humor. I love her fearlessness and quick wit.

The last film in the set was 'Brainwashing 101' by Evan Coyne Maloney. I was a big fan of Evan's before this festival and his film just blew me away. I can't wait until it comes out as a full length feature. I'm going to make sure everyone I know sees it, in particular anyone I know of college age. It is about 'speech codes' and political correctness on campuses and the trouble conservatives face when they exercise their freedom of speech. The most powerful part of the film involved a Republican Sikh student (complete with turban and beard) at the University of Tennessee who complained that the student committee only brought liberal speakers to campus. In emails that became public via a screw-up that sent said email to a friend of the Sikh student, Justin Rubenstein, a member of the Issues Committee, told fellow members of the panel in an e-mail that if they "see one of those ragheads, shoot him right in the [expletive] face." I got the exact quote from a Fox News piece on the subject that concludes with this classic line: 'Rubenstein said his comment was taken out of context.'

The last movie we saw today was Michael&Me, a rebuttal to Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine by Larry Elder. While it was a good movie, it was definitely lacking something, namely opposition. The movie had a few minutes that featured Elder confronting Moore about the use of guns for self defense and Moore pulling the usual 'but what about the chiiiiiiildren' argument. Elder couldn't get Moore to return his calls or appear in the movie but I think he should've interviewed some other anti-gun people. A debate of the two sides would've been more engaging. Everyone in the movie agreed with each other and while I am on their side of the debate, it would've been interesting to take on the other side.

An interesting blogger tidbit: Glenn Reynolds aka Instapundit made an appearance in 'Brainwashing 101' and Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy was in 'Michael and Me'. Additionally, we hung out with another blogger, Rachel, and met up with 'Spot On' reader Shawn.

We're having a great time. Jessica is loving the Spanish radio stations and keeps pointing at things and exclaiming how big they are: the sky, the roads, the parking lots. Tomorrow is another day of conservative cinema. We both can't stop commenting on how happy we are that we did this.