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ORGONITES & TARTUFFEITES: Oh, what a tangled, political web we have woven!!!

[Source: Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673); Project Gutenberg EBook #2027; first written and performed in 1664. Oh,déjà vu!] CLEANTE [brother-in-law of Orgon]That is the usual strain of all your kind;They must have every one as blind as they.They call you atheist [or anti-American] if you have [differing views];And if you don’t adore their vain […]

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The Romance of Ayn Rand

(OR: Ayn Rand Romanticized) Mark Sanford, the recently beleaguered Republican governor of South Carolina, presented his pitch for the current relevance of Ayn Rand in Newsweek, November 2, 2009. He wrote, “What strikes me as still relevant is [The Fountainhead’s] central insight—that it isn’t ‘collective action’ that makes this nation prosperous and secure; it’s the

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Crimes against the People

(And we are all guilty—some more than others—in some way or other) ▪ Unregulated laissez-faire markets*▪ Excessive government regulation of markets*▪ Tax structures that are both onerous and full of loop-holes▪ Massive concessions to big-business while pretending the market-place is free, fair, and level▪ Financial IVs for too-big-to-fail corps (too seldom spelled corpse)▪ Revolving doors

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PANGLOSSARY

(In remembrance of the 250th anniversary of Pangloss’s birth) Pangloss was Voltaire’s fictional philosopher of optimism in his satirical work, Candide (written in 1759 AD). According to Pangloss, “… all that is is for the best. If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere. It is impossible that things should be other

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