It’s odd to hear all of the recent references to people “going Galt.” It’s odd because the idea of Galt and Rand’s philosophy are infantile at best.
If someone wants to “go Galt” then let them. It’s a case of “I’m mad, so I’m taking my toys and going home.” As I’ve heard others note, “graveyards [...]

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I’ll be honest. More often than not, when I watch Jon Stewart, I’m in it for his news recap and kind of pass over the guest interviews.
But the brewing flap that’s been developing the last few days between Jon Stewart and CNBC has been interesting. Thus, Stewart’s interview of Jim Cramer last night would be [...]

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For those who aren’t aware of how the whole housing crisis came to be, here’s a basic primer on what happened.
There’s a house at 123 Main St. It has a value. For the sake of our conversation, that value is $250,000.
You want to buy that house. But of course, you don’t have $250,000 cash on [...]

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Seriously, leave him alone.
Attention whores feed on attention. If you want to make the attention whore a bigger whore, then keep giving attention.
Give attention to Limbaugh and you feed the whore. Give attention to Limbaugh and you give his ideas the tacit approval that they are worthy of discussion.
Limbaugh isn’t worth the attention, because his [...]

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During the 2008 presidential election, conservative ideologues insisted that Obama’s tenuous association with William Ayers was worthy of unending scrutiny and fantastically hysterical nightmare scenarios. Sarah Palin insisted that we know more about someone who “pals around with terrorists.” It was critical.
Now we have Michael Steele, chairman of the GOP, insisting that his recent dust-up [...]

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If you had asked me 20 years ago … or even 10 years ago for my thoughts on capitalism, you would have gotten one of the most individualistic, libertarian, small government, low tax discussion about the appropriate roles of government and economics and how they integrated with each other. And it wasn’t simply a mouthing [...]

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