<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - AynRand's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - AynRand's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:21:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:59:26 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Christmas Should be More Commercial</title><description><![CDATA[Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/23/3666729-christmas-should-be-more-commercial</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/23/3666729-christmas-should-be-more-commercial</guid><category>christmas</category><category>christianity</category><category>christians</category><category>america</category><category>holidays</category><category>selfishness</category><category>ethics</category><category>morality</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:21:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Arbitrary Power, Dictatorship, and Health Care</title><description><![CDATA[Consider one example today: H.R. 3962, the ''Affordable Health Care for America Act" recently passed by the House of Representatives.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/23/3666551-arbitrary-power-dictatorship-and-health-care</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/23/3666551-arbitrary-power-dictatorship-and-health-care</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>democrats</category><category>health-care</category><category>healthcare</category><category>medicine</category><category>liberal</category><category>liberals</category><category>fascism</category><category>dictatorship</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:04:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Anti-Capitalism: The Legacy of George W. Bush and The Republican Party </title><description><![CDATA[The administration of George W. Bush, for instance, greatly expanded government power.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3281190-anti-capitalism-the-legacy-of-george-w-bush-and-the-republican-party-</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/17/3281190-anti-capitalism-the-legacy-of-george-w-bush-and-the-republican-party-</guid><category>politics</category><category>capitalism</category><category>bush</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>economics</category><category>environmentalism</category><category>democrats</category><category>conservatives</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:21:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America by Paul Hsieh</title><description><![CDATA[In April 2006, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to require that all of its residents purchase health insurance.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/12/3255567-mandatory-health-insurance-wrong-for-massachusetts-wrong-for-america-by-paul-hsieh</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/12/3255567-mandatory-health-insurance-wrong-for-massachusetts-wrong-for-america-by-paul-hsieh</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>republicans</category><category>democrats</category><category>gop</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>ted-kennedy</category><category>socialism</category><category>freedom</category><category>liberal</category><category>conservative</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:08:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's Atomic Bomb: The Ideological Clarity of the Democratic Agenda by John David Lewis</title><description><![CDATA[Over the summer of 2009, Americans witnessed something quite extraordinary: Thousands of citizens not usually involved in politics gathered in public protest and energetically confronted government officials about the policies of an administration they had elected just a few mont&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/12/3255442-obamas-atomic-bomb-the-ideological-clarity-of-the-democratic-agenda-by-john-david-lewis</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/12/3255442-obamas-atomic-bomb-the-ideological-clarity-of-the-democratic-agenda-by-john-david-lewis</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>democrats</category><category>tea-parties</category><category>conservatives</category><category>republicans</category><category>gop</category><category>economy</category><category>health-care</category><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:48:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings | Washington Examiner</title><description><![CDATA[The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But when President George H.W.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3241080-when-bush-spoke-to-students-democrats-investigated-held-hearings-washington-examiner</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3241080-when-bush-spoke-to-students-democrats-investigated-held-hearings-washington-examiner</guid><category>politics</category><category>bush</category><category>conservatives</category><category>democrats</category><category>liberals</category><category>obama</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:16:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Stop the Slippery Slope of Speech Bans</title><description><![CDATA[Under campaign finance law, corporations are prevented from spending their own money to advocate the election or defeat of political candidates. Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a second round of arguments in Citizens United v.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3241074-stop-the-slippery-slope-of-speech-bans</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3241074-stop-the-slippery-slope-of-speech-bans</guid><category>politics</category><category>free-speech</category><category>freedom</category><category>freedom-of-speech</category><category>mccain</category><category>elections</category><category>law</category><category>supreme-court</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:08:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Health Care Is Not a Privilege … Nor Is It a Right</title><description><![CDATA[A popular but flawed argument is that "health care is a right, not a privilege." Health care is neither a right nor a privilege. Rather, we all have the right to seek medical treatment through voluntary trade or charity.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Karma]]></dc:creator><link>http://SuaSponte.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3240941-health-care-is-not-a-privilege-nor-is-it-a-right</link><guid>http://SuaSponte.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/09/3240941-health-care-is-not-a-privilege-nor-is-it-a-right</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:07:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Yale criticized for nixing Muslim cartoons in book</title><description><![CDATA[Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer]]></dc:creator><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/08/3236650-yale-criticized-for-nixing-muslim-cartoons-in-book</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/08/3236650-yale-criticized-for-nixing-muslim-cartoons-in-book</guid><category>us</category><category>prophet</category><category>drawings</category><category>yale</category><category>yale-university</category><category>prophet-muhammad</category><category>us-news</category><category>entertainment</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Sep 2009 06:56:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Why *Any* Speech to School Children by a President is Wrong</title><description><![CDATA[I disapprove of Obama's speech to kids that will happen Sept. 8th. I also disaprove of H.W. Bush's and Reagan's speech to kids (and for the record, the content of Reagan's speech is almost as corrupt as Obama's).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/07/3235151-why-any-speech-to-school-children-by-a-president-is-wrong</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/07/3235151-why-any-speech-to-school-children-by-a-president-is-wrong</guid><category>politics</category><category>reagan</category><category>obama</category><category>liberals</category><category>conservatives</category><category>gop</category><category>democrats</category><category>indoctrination</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:45:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title> Massachusetts' Obama-like Reforms Increase Health Costs, Wait Times</title><description><![CDATA[If you are curious about how President Barack Obama's health plan would affect your health care, look no farther than Massachusetts. In 2006, the Bay State enacted a slate of reforms that almost perfectly mirror the plan of Obama and congressional Democrats.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/06/3230635-massachusetts-obama-like-reforms-increase-health-costs-wait-times</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/06/3230635-massachusetts-obama-like-reforms-increase-health-costs-wait-times</guid><category>politics</category><category>health-care</category><category>socialized-medicine</category><category>obama</category><category>medicine</category><category>massachusetts</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:43:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>G20 aims at destroying banker bonuses; stimulus to stay (to reward failure)</title><description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) - G20 finance leaders on Saturday took aim at excessive bank pay and risk-taking at the root of the financial crisis and insisted trillions of dollars of emergency economic supports would be needed for some time.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/06/3230625-g20-aims-at-destroying-banker-bonuses-stimulus-to-stay-to-reward-failure</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/06/3230625-g20-aims-at-destroying-banker-bonuses-stimulus-to-stay-to-reward-failure</guid><category>politics</category><category>capitalism</category><category>stimulus</category><category>banks</category><category>economy</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:27:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Health Care is Not a Right</title><description><![CDATA[Most people who oppose socialized medicine do so on the grounds that it is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical; i.e., it is a noble idea--which just somehow does not work. I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/04/3227829-health-care-is-not-a-right</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/04/3227829-health-care-is-not-a-right</guid><category>politics</category><category>health-care</category><category>obama</category><category>socialized-medicine</category><category>universal-health-care</category><pubDate>Sat, 5 Sep 2009 04:20:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>YouTube - Rick Warren Urges Followers To Emulate Hitler Youth</title><description><![CDATA[The smoking gun. Rick Warren doesn't disagree with the totalitarian's means, he just disagrees who should be the beneficiary of man's sacrifices. Nazis say the race, communists say the class, Christians say God.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/04/2640180-youtube-rick-warren-urges-followers-to-emulate-hitler-youth</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/04/2640180-youtube-rick-warren-urges-followers-to-emulate-hitler-youth</guid><category>religion</category><category>rick-warren</category><category>hitler</category><category>totalitarianism</category><category>nazism</category><category>fascism</category><category>communism</category><category>religious-right</category><category>gop</category><category>jesus</category><category>christ</category><category>god</category><category>faith</category><pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:29:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How the GOP lost my vote - The Denver Post</title><description><![CDATA[But I didn't vote for a single Republican in 2008. I've become increasingly alienated by the Republicans" embrace of the religious "social conservative" agenda, including attempts to ban abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and gay marriage. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/17/2120381-how-the-gop-lost-my-vote-the-denver-post</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/17/2120381-how-the-gop-lost-my-vote-the-denver-post</guid><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>republicans</category><category>gop</category><category>conservatives</category><category>abortion</category><category>stemcells</category><category>gays</category><category>gaymarriage</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:56:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>After Calif. loss, gays get right to wed in Conn. - Yahoo! News</title><description><![CDATA[WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Same-sex couples exchanged vows Wednesday for the first time in Connecticut amid cheers and tears of joy, while gay activists planned protests across the country over the vote that took away their right to marry in California.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2106546-after-calif-loss-gays-get-right-to-wed-in-conn-yahoo-news</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2106546-after-calif-loss-gays-get-right-to-wed-in-conn-yahoo-news</guid><category>politics</category><category>gay-rights</category><category>gay-marriage</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:06:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Governors brainstorm GOP comeback - USATODAY.com</title><description><![CDATA[MIAMI — The GOP's route back to power in Washington may have to take a detour through St. Paul, Tallahassee or Baton Rouge, party leaders from those state capitals said at a meeting of Republican governors Wednesday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2106523-governors-brainstorm-gop-comeback-usatodaycom</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2106523-governors-brainstorm-gop-comeback-usatodaycom</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>gop</category><category>conservatives</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:52:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Main Street Bailout Begins - Forbes.com</title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, many of America's largest banks, along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced a new program to streamline the process of modifying hundreds of thousands of mortgages, hoping to save troubled homeowners and jump start the stalled housing market.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103328-the-main-street-bailout-begins-forbescom</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103328-the-main-street-bailout-begins-forbescom</guid><category>business</category><category>bailout</category><category>socialism</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:55:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bishops Call Obama-Supported Abortion Rights Bill a Threat to Catholic Church - washingtonpost.com</title><description><![CDATA[BALTIMORE, Nov. 11 -- The nation's Catholic bishops Tuesday approved a statement declaring that if the Democratic-controlled Congress and the incoming Obama administration enact proposed abortion rights legislation, they would see it as an attack on the church]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103319-bishops-call-obama-supported-abortion-rights-bill-a-threat-to-catholic-church-washingtonpostcom</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103319-bishops-call-obama-supported-abortion-rights-bill-a-threat-to-catholic-church-washingtonpostcom</guid><category>obama</category><category>religion</category><category>christianity</category><category>abortion</category><category>faith</category><category>christ</category><category>bishops</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:52:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>American shot dead in Pakistan's frontier Peshawar | International | Reuters</title><description><![CDATA[PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a U.S. aid official on Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said, the frontier Pakistani city near Afghanistan which has borne the brunt of a growing Islamist insurgency]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[AynRand]]></dc:creator><link>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103313-american-shot-dead-in-pakistans-frontier-peshawar-international-reuters</link><guid>http://aynrandfan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/12/2103313-american-shot-dead-in-pakistans-frontier-peshawar-international-reuters</guid><category>us-news</category><category>pakistan</category><category>war</category><category>america</category><category>islam</category><category>islamic</category><category>muslim</category><category>afghanistan</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:49:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>