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  1. Veep Wars: Joe Biden's Unchained Melody Meets GOP Ire

    Wed, 15 Aug 2012

    http://bit.ly/NCbTY0 RYAN ON BREAKING UP WITH AYN RAND . Asked about his affinity for the conservative author Hume: "Now you see, I really enjoyed her novels, Atlas Shrugged in particular. It triggered my interest in economics

  2. Biden in Chains, Obama's Seamus Joke, Who Doesn't Support Medicare Cuts? (PM Note)

    Tue, 14 Aug 2012

    Chelsea Clinton Leaves the Door Firmly Ajar for a Future Run - http://abcn.ws/MY3z6D How Paul Ryan Shrugged Off Ayn Rand - Why the individualist author lost her most famous devotee to St. Thomas Aquinas - http://abcn.ws/NxCMfy (Gregory

  3. It's Paul Ryan's Week, But It's Still Mitt Romney's Race (The Note)

    Tue, 14 Aug 2012

    wapo.st/MtYmlu PAUL RYAN BOOK CLUB: SHRUGGING OFF AYN RAND ? ABC's Gregory Krieg reports: Ryan, you see, is the At least, he used to be. ... "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my

  4. Paul Ryan Book Club: Shrugging Off Ayn Rand ?

    Tue, 14 Aug 2012

    Russian emigre novelist Ayn Rand , author of " Atlas Shrugged " and " The Fountainhead ." It began, according later: "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite one person, it would be Ayn Rand . And the fight we are

  5. Paul Ryan Found Himself at Miami University of Ohio

    Mon, 13 Aug 2012

    said, that he developed his love of economics and public policy. There, he was exposed to economic thinkers such as Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman, whose philosophies today serve as inspiration for conservative politicians. "I came to Oxford

  6. Game On: Let The Ideological Battle Begin

    Mon, 13 Aug 2012

    5 congressional races in 5 days! http://wapo.st/Qu6RJR @daveweigel : What Paul Ryan's admiration for one Ayn Rand character tells us about his view of the Fed. http://slate.me/RMTbiI @PhilipRucker : Your St. Augustine #campaignfashionreport

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  1. Romney Takes A Risk - The Right Gets Ryan (The Note)

    Sat, 11 Aug 2012

    Washington, he worked as a trainer at Washington Sport and Health Club. 4.) He has credited novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand as the reason he got into public service. 5.) He's a strong fundraiser. By the end of March, Ryan had brought in

  2. Who is Paul Ryan?

    Sat, 11 Aug 2012

    reportedly mulling his own run for president . Ryan, an Ayn Rand fan, ably articulates a conservative vision for economic soul-searching that led Ryan to discover the works of Ayn Rand , who is still a major influence on him . He and his wife

  3. Page Turner: Mitt Romney Re-Groups

    Fri, 20 Jul 2012

    wealthy members of the senate. http://abcn.ws/LCa50U THE BUZZ: with Chris Good ( @c_good ) OBAMA CHANNELS AYN RAND . The Washington Times' Dave Boyer reports: "... President Obama changed his tune Thursday night about some roundly

  4. Marco Rubio loves hip-hop, The Gladiator and all things football: Ten details from new unauthorized biography

    Tue, 12 Jun 2012

    rumors went away." 7. Rubio immersed himself with Ayn Rand when he was first elected to the Florida legislature finished his first legislative term, he had devoured Ayn Rand 's Atlas Shrugged twice." 8. Rubio had to wear leg-braces as

  5. Book review: 'Pity the Billionaire' by Thomas Frank

    Sun, 5 Feb 2012

    Republican Party, its sometime ally the Tea Party, and their influencers, ranging from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh to Ayn Rand . Again and again in his books, Frank tries to explain how capitalism's zealots rose to power, given their uncomfortable

  6. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on ‘A More Perfect Union: A Dialogue on American Values’

    Fri, 7 Oct 2011

    pull our own weight. But over the last thirty years, the Ayn Rand acolytes have distorted American individualism. Taken to its Ayn Rand extreme, it has been reduced to the notion that a person

  7. Mark Cuban: Get Rich and Then Pay Your Taxes

    Tue, 20 Sep 2011

    com. In 2005, Cuban gave an interview to Slate in which he shared his literary love for “ The Fountainhead ,” a book by the libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand . “I loved it. I don’t know how many times I have read it, but it got to the point where

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  1. Ayn Rand Institute Releases New App

    Fri, 16 Sep 2011

    You know I attributed to the whole financial crisis. And everything that's happened you know since Obama got elected. Atlas shrugged the book itself has sold over a million copies. Which about a 54 you'll book that's that's phenomenal and I think

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    crisis. And everything that's happened -- you know since Obama got elected. Atlas shrugged the book itself has sold over a million copies. Which about a 54 you'll book that's that's phenomenal and I think what
  2. 'Atlas Shrugged' Comes to Theaters

    Fri, 15 Apr 2011

    Paul Johansson directs film adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel.

  3. Greenspan on Financial Crisis

    Sun, 4 Apr 2010

    Fmr. Fed Greenspan says the financial crisis doesn't indict Ayn Rand theories.

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