Ryan’s Ode to Ayn Rand
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Ryan’s Ode to Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a novelist, an atheist, and a philosopher, especially beloved by libertarians and conservative, free-market advocates. Her belief in “rational self-interest” saw virtue in greed and evil in altruism. Her philosophy helped justify the conservative agenda of reverse Robin Hood, giving to the rich and taking from…

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September 13, 2012
Rejecting Toxins in November, 2012
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Rejecting Toxins in November, 2012

What do you do when your opponents have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, much of it on 30-second-long bogus attack ads that flood battleground states in the last two months of the 2012 presidential election? Sites of the propaganda battle: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-electoral-map/ When a few billionaires, like Sheldon…

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September 10, 2012
Metaphysics
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Metaphysics

Stephen Hawking may have said it best when he asked, “Why did the universe bother to exist at all?” If all this is truly random and arguably meaningless, what, in nature’s name, is the fricking point?

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August 18, 2012
Mr. Mulberry
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Mr. Mulberry

I am one of those unusual anomalies you find when thinking of political and ideological combinations: a male feminist. I proudly follow and support feminist voices, organisations, individuals and legislation in Britain, as well as the international feminist movements (such as increasing awareness of the Republican Party's war on…

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August 11, 2012
Liar, Liar!! Pants on Fire!!
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Liar, Liar!! Pants on Fire!!

By OcJim Here is one Romney campaign  lie!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJu3d6SoPSc&feature=player_embedded -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the facts disputing that lie: Between October 2009 and the present, the unemployment rate has fallen from 10 percent to 8.1 percent. In October 2009, there were 129.5 million Americans with full-time jobs. Today, there are 133…

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July 28, 2012
Stop the Pussyfooting – Male Genital Mutilation
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Stop the Pussyfooting – Male Genital Mutilation

I’m finding myself dismayed by the directions the debates brought on by a German court’s ruling - that the circumcision of male infants (which I will refer to as male genital mutilation or MGM from now on) is a criminal assault - are most often taking. I concede that…

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July 27, 2012
Republican Pattern of Lying
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Republican Pattern of Lying

By OcJim There is a Republican pattern that has grown in the last several years. It’s called lying -- in more and more cases bold-face lying. It goes beyond distortion of truth or stretching the truth, which is normal in political arguments on both sides. It is outright lies…

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July 14, 2012
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