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Lauren Conrad: The Fame Game

OK – let’s say you’re 30 years old. Let’s say the average American reads three books a year (outside the U.S. the average may be a bit higher). Let’s say you have a good fifty years of reading before you die. That’s 150 books. [Fun…

Ayn Rand Was NOT A Conservative

There was a story posted on The Daily Beast by Rebecca Dana titled AYN RAND POWER DRESSING in which she writes: “Ayn Rand–author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, mother of Objectivism, and the conservative movement’s most rapacious cougar–leapt back into popular culture this year…

Ben Silverman – Master Innovator?

I was at a party once and (G. Gordon) Liddy put his hand over a candle, and he kept it there.  He kept it right in the flame until his flesh was burned.  Somebody said, “What’s the trick?”  And Liddy said, “The trick is not…