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Author: Pro-choice Ayn Rand ‘would have hated Ron Paul’
Gary Weiss, the author of Ayn Rand Nation, said Tuesday that despite some overlap between their political philosophies, the novelist Ayn Rand would have hated Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Many conservatives, most notably Glenn Beck, have renewed interest in the novels and philosophy of Rand. The Russian-born atheist author espoused…
Obama to UAW: I back U.S. workers and I’ll buy a Chevy Volt
President Barack Obama says he is so confident of the U.S. auto industry’s return to greatness that he is buying an American electric car at the end of his second term. In a fiery speech to the United Auto Workers (UAW) members on Tuesday, the president said that his decision…
Gingrich: ‘Transvestite’ invited me to ‘exorcism of Jerry Falwell’
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently told a story about a “transvestite” he met to explain why he doesn’t agree with “San Francisco values.” Gingrich explained a 2006 fundraising pitch, in which had asked for donations so that conservative accomplishments were not “lost to the San Francisco values of would-be…
Joe Arpaio: ‘Latinos love me’
In a heated interview with Univision host Jorge Ramos this past weekend, controversial Maricopa Country, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio claimed that Latinos actually love him. The Al Punto host wasn’t hesitant to tell Arpaio directly that he “was the face of racism and discrimination” to many Latinos, prompting the tea…
Romney: ‘Not willing to light my hair on fire’ to win
Mitt Romney has reinvented himself over and over again since he began campaigning in 1994, but he says there limits to what he will do to get elected. During a visit to his campaign headquarters in Michigan on Tuesday, a reporter asked the Republican presidential candidate why GOP voters were…
Cancer-stricken teacher assistant fired for missing work
A North Carolina woman has been fired from her job as teacher assistant because her former employer says cancer treatments caused her to miss too many days of work. Donna Sotomayor took leave from River Bend Elementary School in Raleigh to receive six chemotherapy treatments and 33 radiation treatments after…
Colbert: Romney is ‘plastic and uncomfortable’ like empty seats
The top two GOP presidential candidates’ bizarre moves this past weekend caught the attention of Stephen Colbert Monday evening, when he mocked Romney’s “plastic and uncomfortable” personality in an near-empty stadium and Santorum’s anti-elitism that would lead to “fewer opportunities” for the next generation. The Comedy Central host began analyzing…
Jon Stewart mocks Santorum for misinterpreting J.F.K. speech
Jon Stewart, the host of The Daily Show, highlighted the fact that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum inverted the meaning of John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech pledging to keep the Pope out of politics. Santorum said the speech made him want to vomit. “To say people of faith have…
Maddow: Forced vaginal probe ultrasound not just a Virginia story
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted that lawmakers in Virginia were not the only ones pushing for legislation that would require women to receive an ultrasound before terminating their pregnancy. Alabama, Pennsylvania and Arizona are also considering bills that would require a woman to receive a…
Financier Fred Wilson: Content industry has made everybody a pirate
Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist who has invested in companies like Twitter and Tumblr, said at an event hosted by the Paley Center for Media that virtually everyone had become a media pirate because Internet content wasn’t convenient for consumption. Rather than trying to go after every infringer, he argued,…
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