The root of all the evils that men perpetrated on men is the initiation or maintenance of an assertion over the existence, identity, or consciousness of another.

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• Did Scott Walker Lie Under Oath to Congress? Walker says no, but unlike the Wisconsin Governor, video doesn't lie

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • Did Scott Walker Lie Under Oath to Congress? Was his mouth moving?

• Daily Kos: New Hampshire widow on James O'Keefe stunt: 'Call the cops, call the police'

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • Not just fraud, but conspiracy to commit voter fraud. I wonder how he will get along with the other inmates--bet he won't be wearing his pimp outfit, probably the other side of that coin; but he is a thin white boy so a short skirt will look good on him. ;>)

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • Marshall James....Thanks. I needed that.

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • Ripley8... As I made plain in the quote I gave above, Objectivists despise Libertarians; although Libertarians try to claim Objectivism as a source of validation--they do so only in contradiction too, or misunderstanding of, Rand's philosophy.

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • Hell yes Objectivism is more involved, but if you don't understand how the concepts that explain it were made, especially in contrast to how most people are taught that they are (usage creates meaning by consensus), then you will never understand the philosophy as intended by the author.

• It Doesn't Matter What the Bible says About Homosexuality

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • YES.

• It Doesn't Matter What the Bible says About Homosexuality

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • It Doesn't Matter What the Bible says About Homosexuality--ANYTHING

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • James...Define civilization. It seems to me that Miss Rand understood it well, so you either don't understand her work--or the concept civilization.

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • Dean...You forgot "Objetivism the Philosophy of Ayn rand" by Leonard Peikoff. Very good for the new readers of her work. Although, to really understand her philosophy, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is a must, and the most difficult.

• FOCUS: Ayn Rand-Loving Right Is Like Teen Boys Gone Crazy

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • First, Lakoff is at best misguided, substituting conceptualization for metaphore.