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Please tell me that isn’t a soybean that Michelle Obama is extolling the virtues of in that photo.

The current First Lady has somehow become the nation’s Food Czar, with a capacity of recommending, implementing and apparently enforcing her own policies on the country. No other First Lady has enjoyed such power. Not even the much-beloved Nancy Reagan, who channeled the massive respect given her toward no less a gesture than encouraging America’s children to steer clear of drug abuse, was granted such authority to wield.

Michelle Obama, however, is hellbent on imposing her own whacked nutritional vision upon the children of those who “just said no”.

Michelle Obama has directed the United States Department of Agriculture to mandate school lunches that can best be described as “skimpy” and “lacking”. Not to mention downright unpalatable. The government is determined to limit elementary kids to 650 calories and high schoolers to ...

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Back in late February through early March I wound up reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time in my life. That revelation shocked many of those closest to me, who had assumed that bibliojunkie that I’ve always been, that I would have long ago devoured Ayn Rand’s classic novel.

Can’t help but wonder what my life would have developed into had I read the book when I was in high school or college. Atlas Shrugged didn’t add much substantially “new” to my belief system, but it did clarify and crystallize it as nothing else had before. I’m thinking of re-reading it again sometime soon (but I’ve re-read the part about Kip Chalmers’ train at least forty times since winter and laughed every time it goes into the tunnel: yes, I’m perverse that way :-P)

So now in a page right out of Atlas Shrugged, a coal mine owner in ...

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Six nights ago I was sitting in a theater in Asheville, North Carolina during ActionFest for a midnight screening of Hobo With A Shotgun, with a mostly male audience that didn’t quite fill all the seats in the house.

A short while ago, I came back from the one theater in Greensboro, North Carolina that’s showing Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 on its opening day, and I saw it with a MUCH bigger audience: this one made up of men and women and boy and girls of all ages… who sat in utter silence during the hour and 45 minutes that the movie run and then wildly applauded at the end with many asking “When does Part 2 come out?!?”

If tonight was any indication, then you read it here first dear readers: Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 is going to be a big, big sleeper hit at the box ...

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Yes, I have seen the new trailers for Thor, and for Captain America: The First Avenger, and for Green Lantern and Transformers: Dark of the Moon and every other trailer out right now for a tentpole movie this year.

But I haven’t posted about them. If you want to find them, here’s YouTube. Knock yourself out.

I am however going to post the trailer for Atlas Shrugged: Part 1…

The first film of the trilogy hits theaters, appropriately enough, on April 15th. So fitting that on Income Tax Day here in the United States, that many who had never even heard of him before will be asking “Who is John Galt?”

There have been efforts to cinematically adapt Ayn Rand’s classic novel going on since 1972. It’s finally come to fruition. I plan to see this movie on opening day.

Click here for the official website ...

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