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THREE GUESSES WHAT RON PAUL’S SON’S NAME IS, PEOPLE. Is it “Atlas” or “Shrugged”? Maybe “Fountainhead”? Or is there some libertarian writer namesake that might include all of these? MORE »

Some little hipster clarinet player from NYU is claiming the Iraq invasion and occupation was all about securing oil supplies for America. Oh and what is that sticking out of Jazzbo Al’s tattered raincoat? A worn paperback of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” which he actually first read when she was writing it, when he was screwing some gal in Rand’s “inner circle” and writing angry letters to the New York Times about how “parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.” That’s right, we’re talking about former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan! MORE »

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s crazy new plan to actually ensure health insurance for everybody in California will likely have all sorts of problems and certainly won’t ever satisfy everybody, but unless you’re a Mexican-hating multi-millionaire like Lou Dobbs, it’s hard to find something wrong with the idea of making basic medical care available to the self-employed and working poor.

Luckily for California, the state isn’t just home to communist hippies like the governor — it’s also home to Irvine’s beloved Ayn Rand Institute, which today attacked Arnold’s proposal as “a moral travesty.”

Read the objectivist objections to this latest GOP socialist attack on America’s values, after the jump.

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Totally reasonable and well-respected “Christian Libertarian” philosopher Vox Day lays out the case for the existence of an “unholy alliance of Jews, atheists and African-American Marxists waging war on the Christmas holiday.” MORE »

• Congressional logic: “War = ok, Gambling = not so ok.” [A 'Feel Good' Production]
• There is a secret Chick-fil-A at GW. [Till Human Voices Wake Us, And We Drown]
• “…this latest rash of allen’s attack ads employing women-as-a-wedge plays like a demand for every pre-pregnant woman to make a decision; i’ve made mine, and it’s to support the candidate who would continue to allow me to make my own choices.” [Cocoricamo]
• Perfect, “they are going to make a movie of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged and Angelina is going to play Dagney.” [MLP's Blog]
• Free screenings of Saved and Jessica Simpson’s Employee of the Month in Maryland. We’re just going to let that sink in. [Too Many Words]