MereMortal

Out of all the traits Rand likes in her heroes, you choose to focus on this one because some vicious dictator had the same trait? Why does this always happen? Why does Mussolini's bluster matter?? It isn't JUST a person's bluster Rand likes. It's part of the package. If some blustering idiot is a destructive collectivist, I'm sure Rand would despise such a person

Excellent piece. I've always liked David Horowitz.

Damn, trying to re-create the '68 Democrat Convention environment. What a bunch of hippy wannabes.

Since it hasn't been posted yet, here it is. Rush on Fox Sunday.

If the propaganda is a knowingly false and malicious lie, you can sue and win if you prove it. Are you suggesting making defamation suits illegal?

Samson, is being a social democrat a good thing? What's the benefit?

That's sad. I'm a huge Rand admirer and consider myself a serious Objectivist and if I ever resort to quoting Rand or merely telling folks to look up what she said on some subject in response to a question, I'll just commit suicide. If I learned anything from Rand, I learned to think for myself and draw my own conclusions.

If Draymond Green really wants to be unselfish, he should have let the Sixers win. They are horrible and need the win far more than the Warriors do.

Right on cue: Hillary Clinton blames the vast right wing conspiracy for her email woes Yeah, and Hillary is not stupid, ridiculous or embarrassing, but Palin and Trump are! J See, you're catching on.

Right on cue: Hillary Clinton blames the vast right wing conspiracy for her email woes

Frank Caliendo does his thing.

Wolf, Actual charity like giving money to the needy has nothing to do with this. The Principle of Charity is a technical term used in academia and the sciences. It means making your best effort to understand what someone is saying before evaluating it. It is the opposite of gotcha. In other words, if there are two interpretations of a statement, and one is better than the other (or clearer, etc.), you assume the better one until proven otherwise for the purpose of evaluating it, even if the better one runs counter to your ideas and beliefs. This reminds me of something I read about a year ago or so on the Gus Van Horn blog about what is referred to as steelmanning.

I'm trying to picture what you are saying and all I do is laugh. There is no way Trump cannot stand up to someone, I don't care who it is.

Pat Condell has a few words for those offended by Trump: video

Reagan was called the "teflon President" because the dirt didn't stick Is Trump going to be the "boomerang President"? It seems as if the dirt returns to the senders and sticks to them.

I saw this posted at Political Forums.com: Extreme Weather Tied to Over 600,000 Deaths Over 2 Decades Given the sharp reductions in climate related deaths over the last century, one should think twice about what this report actually means in regard to the threat level posed by human activity. The average AGW advocate will ignore the relevant context.

This isn't a list of Objectivist values. It's a list of things that some of the Atlas Shrugged characters did. I thought you were going to address the following from Galt's speech: