Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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Commence the making of popcorn… now

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Erickson & Trump. One on One.

By RedState on May 11, 2011

Yes, it is true. On Tuesday, I will be going one on one with Donald Trump in his office in New York.

He has agreed to sit down and have an unfiltered conversation with no topic off limits. Thus I will ask him those questions many of you have wanted to ask him and flesh out why he thinks he is a conservative, why he might run, etc.

You can watch the interview live and for free. But you must register by going here.

RedState

H/t: Spaghetti Lee

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The Free Market is a Cruel Mistress

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It appears that the director of Atlas Shrugged: The Debacle is mooning the invisible hand and will go Galt:

Twelve days after opening “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.

“Critics, you won,” said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more than $20 million of his own money to make, distribute and market “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” which covers the first third of Rand’s dystopian novel. “I’m having deep second thoughts on why I should do Part 2.”

“Atlas Shrugged” was the top-grossing limited release in its opening weekend, generating $1.7 million on 299 screens and earning a respectable $5,640 per screen. But the the box office dropped off 47% in the film’s second week in release even as “Atlas Shrugged” expanded to 425 screens, and the movie seemed to hold little appeal for audiences beyond the core group of Rand fans to whom it was marketed.

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“Why should I put up all of that money if the critics are coming in like lemmings?” Aglialoro said. “I’ll make my money back and I’ll make a profit, but do I wanna go and do two? Maybe I just wanna see my grandkids and go on strike.”

There can only be one response to his threats to Go Galt and refuse to bring us parts 2 and 3:

Atlas Shrugged, and I Got Soaked

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I’ve Run Out of Invisible Hand Jokes

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But not schadenfreude:

My esteemed colleague Kyle Smith may not qualify as a box-office Nostradamus (“I smell a hit,” he once wrote of “An American Carol”) but he was certainly on the mark in predicting that “Atlas Shrugged — Part One” would flop in his Sunday column a couple of weeks ago.

After a middling performance during its opening weekend that was hyped in some quarters (i.e., The Hollywood Reporter), the per-screen average for this amateurish Ayn Rand adaptation (even Kyle could only muster 2.5 stars’ worth of enthusiam for the movie, though he liked its message) plunged to an alarming $1,890 from $5,640 during its opening frame. Overall, the weekend’s take was a scant $879,000 — a whopping 48 percent drop despite adding 166 locations. Which certainly suggest they’re running out of audience quick.

That means that at some locations, distributor Rocky Mountain Pictures will be writing checks to theaters to cover the difference between receipts and operating expenses. The only way they’re likely to get the 1,000 screens the producers say they want next weekend is to rent them. And, as Kyle put it at his personal blog, “Whether the sequels get made is purely a matter of how much desire the producers have for losing money.”

I’m dying.

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Kicked to the Curb

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Marco Rubio won’t be joining Jim DeMint’s Tea Party Caucus, and instead has been one of Mitch McConnell’s favored freshmen, recently accompanying McConnell on a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Tea Party has been in Rubio’s rear view mirror ever since he leveraged it to push Charlie Crist out of the Republican primary, so it’s not really a surprise that Rubio won’t join Jim DeMint, Rand Paul and Mike Lee’s little band of true patriots. Rubio has to get re-elected in a state that occasionally elects Democrats, and he’s smart enough to know that the Tea Party will be nothing but an impediment to that run, not to mention a hindrance in his ambition to be the Republican Obama.

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This Must Be Done

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Please excuse me, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:

Michigan has fired head football coach Rich Rodriguez after three seasons, according to Fox 2 News in Detroit.

Rodriguez was 15-22 overall during his Michigan tenure and just 1-10 against ranked opponents. The Wolverines ended this season with a 52-14 loss to Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl, the worst bowl loss in school history.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. He could have been the king of West Virginia. He would have been the highest paid state employee in West Virginia his entire career, and then there would have been lucrative promotional contracts, his own radio show. They’d be naming streets after him, as anyone who has been on Don Nehlen Boulevard can attest. We even loved him despite that loss to Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl. He never would have been fired. Ever.

But he was too good for us.

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Rules are For Other People

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Oddly enough, Fox news is not screaming about this:

DID former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Tom Ridge, a former homeland security secretary, and Frances Townsend, a former national security adviser, all commit a federal crime last month in Paris when they spoke in support of the Mujahedeen Khalq at a conference organized by the Iranian opposition group’s advocates? Free speech, right? Not necessarily.

The problem is that the United States government has labeled the Mujahedeen Khalq a “foreign terrorist organization,” making it a crime to provide it, directly or indirectly, with any material support. And, according to the Justice Department under Mr. Mukasey himself, as well as under the current attorney general, Eric Holder, material support includes not only cash and other tangible aid, but also speech coordinated with a “foreign terrorist organization” for its benefit. It is therefore a felony, the government has argued, to file an amicus brief on behalf of a “terrorist” group, to engage in public advocacy to challenge a group’s “terrorist” designation or even to encourage peaceful avenues for redress of grievances.

It’s a stupid law, but these clowns would have used it to bludgeon anyone who got in their way while they were in power.

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