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The willingness of Americans to be persuaded to do things against their own interests seems to have no limits, which must give great encouragement to our enemies.

The message from Mitt Romney and his supporters is that while it is fine for the Republican presidential candidate to campaign on the strengths of his career as a businessman it is hitting below the belt for President Obama and his supporters to campaign on the weaknesses of Mr.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money Ayn Rand * I don't imagine any would have guessed it, opening their invitation that spring, that they were being invited to an event which would prove emblematic of the second American Gilded Age, a party which would mark the most vulgar odious excesses of ... (more)

S. E. Cupp, a female conservative commentator who works for Glenn Beck's GBTV, was depicted in an explicit photo reportedly published in Hustler magazine, The Blaze reported Wednesday.

AMHERST - Philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand has been much in the news. This is because prominent Republican political figures have been profoundly inspired by her advocacy of the private virtue of selfishness, the public glory of unbridled capitalism and her fierce condemnation of altruism.

Excerpts from a letter of Ayn Rand to Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, February 28, 1946 -- "The Free Market", 2001 No.

Ron Paul recently announced he's ending his campaign... y'know, kinda . And we KNOW, Ron Paul people.

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Part of Romney's image problem is that he leads not as a selfless Lincolnesque statesman but as an Ayn Rand greed worshiper.

Ron Paul has announced he is ending his campaign ... kinda . He's going to stop spending money on primaries, which is a little like Kim Kardashian announcing she's going to stop spending all that time thinking about organic chemistry.

I thought conservatives didn't believe in evolution, but it's only biological Darwinism they don't believe in.

The Rev. Grisham is quite incorrect in associating Congressman Paul Ryan with Ayn Rand .

My latest podcast is a discussion of one of the great mysteries of American politics - Ayn Rand, the woman whose ideas drive the American right, and crashed the global economy.

The people at the New York Times Magazine must think that nobody has ever read Ayn Rand, or maybe even Adam Smith.

It sounds like something out of an Ayn Rand novel or a Ray Bradbury short story: an experimental, high tech "ghost town" being built to try out new inventions like driverless automobiles, renewable energy sources, and upgraded communication networks.

McSweeney's has published an attempt at parody of Ayn Rand that quite spectacularly misconstrues her attitudes toward immigrants and Jews, two categories to which she belonged.

Michael Kinsley is an editor and columnist at Bloomberg View. His column appears on Fridays.

Does it matter to "religious" conservatives that Paul Ryan, whose budget proposal Mitt Romney endorses, cites as his public policy guru atheist Ayn Rand? Also you would think that conservative minds concerned with fairness, like those which for three-years called the state of Hawaii liars with regards to President Obama's birth certificate, would ... (more)

Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan disavowed his one-time political muse, Ayn Rand, because of her "atheist philosophy." Some of his constituents, however, aren't buying it.

It's great news for us Democrats that former Romney partner in Bain Capital -- Edward Conard -- is out with a new book on economics, "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong". My first guess when hearing about the book was that some devious liberal in the publishing industry talked Conard into this ... (more)