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Tiger Woods Reads Atlas Shrugged

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This awesome: Why Tiger Woods is the Opposite of Hope: Here’s the thing: He planned it. The win, the baby, the half year off. Probably in that order, too. And I don’t mean that he was gambling on the knee holding up and then won, or that he underestimated the pain and then won anyway. [...]

Obama – Worse Than Imagined

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Take a few minutes to read this: Obama’s “Extreme Makeover” of America: It is hard to decide any more which current government-spawned disasters and those to come one should dwell on. As on the popular TV program, ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,“ President Barack Obama is overseeing the demolition of the remnants of a republic [...]

Atlas Shrugged #1 Amazon Seller in Literature and Fiction

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

This is great news, although one could certainly wish for different circumstances: Atlas Shrugged is (as of right now) the #1 bestseller in Amazon’s “Literature and Fiction” category. No matter how you spin it, this is great news. To keep updated on it’s status: Amazon’s most popular Literature and Fiction.

Ayn Rand Institute Offers Impact Newsletter for Free

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

The Ayn Rand Institute is now offering its Impact newsletter for free. Go here to get it.

If You’re Fat, Don’t Blame McDonald’s

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Um, yes, well, duh: Nope, McDonald’s Isn’t Making Us Fat: Don’t blame fast-food restaurants for why America seems so supersized. This new economic study from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley seems to disprove the the common nutritional myth: The results find no evidence of a causal link between restaurants and obesity, and the estimates are [...]

News Flash: Environmentalist’s Worst Predictions Don’t Pan Out

Friday, December 26th, 2008

As we head into 2009, I’m glad to see the media (any media, actually) finally fessing up to the fact that environmentalism is nothing but an anti-capitalist, anti-man religion. Here’s a story about some predictions that went wrong: GLOBAL warming preachers have had a shocking 2008. So many of their predictions this year went splat. [...]

Worthless Trivia: American Idol to Lose Home

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Fitting squarely in the “who gives a shit?” category: ‘American Idol’ Winner Fantasia Barrino May Lose Home: From The Associated Press: “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino is again finding that, like the title of her autobiography, life is not a fairy tale. Court documents obtained Tuesday show one of Barrino’s houses in Charlotte is up [...]

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