Video from the "Guns Across America" rally here in Madison, Wisconsin today.

Here's some edited video showing the crowd and the signs. In the middle there is a prayer, and at the end is the national anthem. Once y...

Going Galt means different things to different people.

Observes Roy Edroso , reading Will Spencer : [W]e've seen folks Go Galt by leaving lousy tips , by alerting local merchants that they p...

It's morning in Obama's Second Term America.

How are you feeling? If you didn't get what you wanted for Electionmas, how are you dealing with your disappointment? Me, I'm an opt...

"Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we'd pick up."

"Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we're only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, i...

"And when Ryan riffed on the handful of jobs he briefly held, his Ayn Randian roots were clear."

Writes Joan Walsh at Salon. Here's what Paul Ryan said that Walsh thinks is "straight out of Rand, and ’50s anti-Communist paranoi...

Paul Ryan shirtless.

The headline "Top Ryan Google searches: 'vice president,' 'shirtless" made me skeptical. What about the other Ryan — ...

When Paul Ryan was 16.

From a New Yorker article written by Ryan Lizza: But the summer of 1986 brought a life-changing event. One night in August, he came home fro...

Motivated by "the absurdity" of the TSA trying to see him naked via machine, John E. Brennan got real-flesh naked... and arrested... and prosecuted.

And acquitted... by an Oregon state judge: Citing a 1985 state appeals court ruling stating that nudity laws don't apply in cases of pro...

Goodbye to Nora Ephron.

She was 71. In the late 1960s Ms. Ephron turned to magazine journalism, at Esquire and New York mostly. She quickly made a name for herself ...

"IC Solutions CEO Joe Stafford, who takes time to reread the 1,100 pages of the pro-capitalism novel Atlas Shrugged every two years..."

"... says he doesn't 'have enough time in the day to bother with' the 94 pages of Cheese ." From a 2002 USA Today arti...

The Silent Majority Walk and the Naked Bike Ride.

Today at the Capitol Square. Video shot and edited by me. Small glimpses of genitalia from 6:03 to 6:30. Breast alert. The event I came to s...

The individual mandate "may violate the constitution of Ayn Rand, but they do not violate the Constitution of the United States."

Said Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said today, in oral arguments before the Eleventh Circuit, as reported by Sasha Volokh , who quips...

Finally, a way to get liberals to abandon their romantic obsession with high-speed trains.

It's the "Atlas Shrugged" movie! Roger Ebert haaaaates it and mocks the obsession with trains: Yes, although airplanes exist ...

"... Ron Johnson, a plastics manufacturer and one of those rich political virgins who have been popping up in races across the country, waving a checkbook and a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.'"

A NYT description of the Wisconsin senatorial candidate. ADDED: What's the opposite of a "political virgin"? Also, why aren...

"We start analyzing these things rationally or logically or logically, it's not going to make any sense."

I was going to analyze that assertion rationally but I was afraid it wasn't going to make any sense. The quote is from Rush Limbaugh, w...

McCain, too, is a memoirist.

We keep talking about "Dreams From My Father." What about "Faith of My Fathers"? His 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,”...

Is it Greenspan's fault?

Peter S. Goodman has some clearly written analysis: Economists from across the ideological spectrum have criticized his decision to let the ...