ObjectivistLiving.com, where smearing Ayn Rand is a full-time job, and where Big Opinions don't require a shred of evidence to support them...

So asks the The Wall Street Journal.

The real question, of course: does "required" imply the initiation of force?

More PARC!

Here's a link to an article some of you might find of interest.

Many SOLOists may not be aware that our friend, Casey, is a writer of extraordinary power.

More PARC!

The man who gave us Glengarry Glen Ross and The Verdict is no longer "a brain dead liberal," as David Mamet himself writes in

This is one of my favorite poems. I post it now in honor of Mark and Sandi.

The Marriage
by Yvor Winters (1900-1968)

Incarnate for our marriage you appeared,

Most have focused on the looney 9/11 Conspiracy stuff, but this article from Reason about Ron Paul's friends and supporters will get your skin crawling.

The National Review has long feared Ayn Rand more than anyone else.

There is simply no other way to explain decades of consistently lying about Rand and her ideas by that magazine.

Verily, it was that Most Special Time of Year when commemoration of the humble Nativity of the Prince of Peace, with its gentle echoes of the cooing of the Christ Child, inspires each and every Christ

Happy 100th Birthday to the great Jacques Barzun!

The overused cliche, "a national treasure," actually applies to this guy.

While Mike Huckabee's progress seems to have slowed a bit, his remarkable surge in the polls has put the Baptist clergyman into almost a statistical dead heat with Rudy.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has just given Christians the best Christmas present he could have -- that is, s

The value of a timeline.

I don't even see the Mormons, either.

With all due respect to Hume, values are not a species of mythological beast, arbitrary, whimsical or some kind of religious invention. They are a fact about life itself.

"The Best Drummer All Over The World"

"What do I think of President Reagan?

I hate to rain on everybody's "Atlas Month," but for all the new-found "respect" for Ayn Rand from certain writers and publications being noted around here, we still have a very LONG way to go -- and

This is fascinating!

Thanks to Althouse for the heads up.

Libertarian feminist Wendy McElroy has recently added a new section to her website (look on the left side), as she puts it, "to celebrate 'The Woman -- Ayn Rand.'"

According to its newsletter:

"IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF THE TLS (The Times Literary Supplement):"

The Religious Right in America shares something very "fundamental" with contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. The latest symptom?

Well, as many of the political pundits are suggesting in the wake of this week's judicial news, Mr. Bush's real "legacy" as President may ultimately be his appointments to the Supreme Court -- since almost nothing else has panned out for the Administration, at least domestically. One must, however, add that W's highly successful efforts to directly fund religious organizations will also be felt for years to come. And, this week, these two "achievements" came together in the most disturbing way yet.

Professor Stephen Cox has done liberty lovers – and the world – a great service with his biography, 'The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America' (2004, Transaction).

So what the heck did someone put into the water recently? Whatever it is, it apparently goes straight to the most rational parts of the brain.

I always knew that baseball legend Cal Ripkin was cool, so this report in The Christian Science Monitor just confirms it.