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  1. Capitalism's Wicked WitchRead the original story w/Photo

    20 hrs ago | TheDailyBeast.com

    Ayn Rand is having another moment, and critic Allen Barra thinks we should once and for all recognize her as a fraud and an ideologue with creepy followers.

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  2. Dead Battery of the Decade Award: Alan Greenspan

    Tuesday Nov 24 | Politics in the Zeros

    ... this prestigious award to the man who without him, the financial collapse could not have happened - Alan ("I heart Ayn Rand") Greenspan. The video explains that Ayn Rand would have detested what Greenspan did, as he was constantly meddling with the ...

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  3. Parents Fret About K-8 School Planned for Washington Street

    Tuesday Nov 17 | Baristanet.com

    Parents who showed up at the Montclair Board of Education meeting last night expressed concern that the newest plan for Washington Street School would compromise the programs of Rand and Renaissance Schools and put the school at full capacity, with no room for growth, from day one.

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  4. What Is the Heritability of Being an A--hole?

    Tuesday Nov 17 | Cognitive Daily

    Category: Genetics IQ WhatEVAH! Posted on: November 17, 2009 10:05 AM, by Mike I've finished reading Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count , which is a wonderful counterargument to Charles Murray's genetic conservatism : intelligence, typically ascertain using IQ, is highly heritable, so there's little ...

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  5. Rand on IP, Owning 'Values', and 'Rearrangement Rights'Read the original story

    Monday Nov 16 | Mises Economics Blog

    November 16, 2009 4:31 PM by Stephan Kinsella In Jeff Tucker's superb article If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others? , he notes Rand's increasing focus on exalting the creator and elevating "intellectual rights" to such a height that they totally trump real rights.

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  6. Tab dumpRead the original story

    Monday Nov 16 | Pen to paper

    takedown of Ayn Rand . It is at least ten thousand characters too long, and not so much an article as a 26.000 character rant, but it is readable, funny, immensely satisfying and it makes a good point when it connects the dots between Randian ...

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  7. Peter Bagge comic about Ayn RandRead the original story

    Monday Nov 16 | Boing Boing

    ... violence to achieve their political ideals. In fact, the lefties I know are generally both vociferously anti-Ayn Rand and vociferously anti-violence. So, yeah. There's that. why is the 19-year old version of the cartoonist in what looks to be a ...

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  8. Atlas YawnedRead the original story

    Monday Nov 16 | CrossingWallStreet.com

    November 16, 2009 Atlas Yawned Barry Ritholtz notes the reemergence of Ayn Rand .

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  9. Ayn Rand: The Boring Bitch is Back

    Sunday Nov 15 | The Big Picture

    There is a substantial take-down of pedantic bore Ayn Rand in GQ . They tease it thusly: 2009's most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick.

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  10. Rand or Thatcher? -- By: Iain Murray

    Friday Nov 13 | The Corner

    Peter, Like Andrew, I think Rand is a symbol rather than a movement philosopher.

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  11. Welcome Back, Ms. Rand! -- By: Andrew Stuttaford

    Friday Nov 13 | The Corner

    Rand was what she was and her philosophy was what it was, but beyond the ranks of a few of the pur and the dur , her true significance in today's miserable age of Obama is as a more general symbol of individualism and economic liberty.

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  12. The cure for socialismRead the original story

    Thursday Nov 12 | AngloAustria

    ... Austria, the journey had finally begun. I suppose I must include Atlas Shrugged , which pushed me into all the works of Rand, though I always felt she was missing something, and wondered why she had proven incapable of writing a sequel to Atlas ...

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  13. Politico: What Makes 2009 The Year of Ayn Rand?

    Thursday Nov 12 | Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

    What makes 2009 the Year of Ayn Rand is that there's a growing acceptance of the author's most stringent beliefs.

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  14. Rand, Renaissance to share new schoolRead the original story

    Thursday Nov 12 | Montclair Times Community Online

    ... School District officials disclosed they are considering a plan to relocate both Renaissance Middle School and Rand Elementary School in the two-story facility on Washington Street scheduled to open in September 2010. The usual sharing arrangement ...

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  15. She's Back

    Monday Nov 9 | Reason Magazine

    Ayn Rand is bigger than ever. But are her new fans radical enough for capitalism? Ayn Rand, the Russian-born novelist and philosopher, died in 1982.

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  16. Hey, guy! What are you holding up?

    Saturday Nov 7 | American Prospect Online

    ... read," he announced to the Cato Institute audience. As Cato's executive vice president, Boaz launched last week's Ayn Rand book forum with a clarion call for "individual rights, free enterprise, and strictly limited government." Conservative groups ...

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  17. Ayn Rand

    Tuesday Nov 3 | Marginal Revolution

    With two new biographies being covered in all the major newspapers, The Daily Show , and elsewhere, Ayn Rand is in the news .

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  18. Mrs. Logic; Ayn Rand never got into an argument she couldn’t win...

    Sunday Nov 1 | Freerepublic.com

    Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new-an acolyte who'd traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel-she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history's all-time classic icebreakers: 'Tell me your premises.' Once you'd managed to mumble something halfhearted about ...

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  19. Give BB&T Liberty, but Not a BailoutRead the original story

    Aug 2, 2009 | StarNewsOnline.com

    ... gimmickry. Click to enlarge John A. Allison IV, chairman of the banking company BB&T, is a devoted follower of Ayn Rand's antigovernment views. Buy photo And in his spare time, Mr. Allison travels the country making speeches about his bank's ...

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  20. Tell me your premisesRead the original story

    Oct 28, 2009 | Isegoria

    Sam Anderson describes Mrs. Logic with verve: Whenever Ayn Rand met someone new - an acolyte who'd traveled cross-country to study at her feet, an editor hoping to publish her next novel - she would open the conversation with a line that seems destined to go down as one of history's all-time classic icebreakers: "Tell me your premises." Once you'd ...

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