Must read for this weekend is the new Jennifer Burns book Goddess of the Market Ayn Rand covered last night here. Jennifer Burns’ new book on the life of Ayn Rand delivers in Goddess of the Market an exciting read. Jon Stewart spoke to Burns about the book Thursday night on Comedy Central.

Burns uses Rand’s unedited journals in an examination of Rand that is described as groundbreaking.

“Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand’s private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand’s journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.”

The book carries you from Russia to Hollywood and confronts Rand’s relationship with Nathaniel Branden.

“Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand’s work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand’s Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968.

The Washington Times sees the book still timely, and has the power to instruct on the implications of current government trends:

“A smart assessment of Rand’s life and ideas and how they influenced each other… As Ms. Burns successfully demonstrates, Rand’s ideas have remained an important part of the American ideological mix, especially in how she honored the creative powers of American business in a free market to improve human lives. Ms. Burns’ readers will see Rand still has the power to instruct on the meaning and scary implications of government growth in the age of Barack Obama.”

Check it out online HERE

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PHOTO! Here is the Fox Ad that CNN is calling the False Fox Ad. The advertisement concerns Fox Tea Party coverage during the recent march on Washington.

The ad reads: “How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN Miss This Story?”

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL AD

Fox’s Michael Tammero says of the ad:

“Generally speaking, it’s fair to say that from the tea party movement … to Acorn … to the march on 9/12, the networks either ignored the story, marginalized it or misrepresented the significance of it altogether”.

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is slamming back:

“Let me address the Fox News Network now perhaps the most current way that I can, by quoting somebody who recently used a very pithy phrase, two words. It’s all I need: You lie.”

ABC had battled over crowd sizes numbers:

Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration’s health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.

Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally Saturday that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.

At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C. fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands.”

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VIDEO! Watch youtube video of Joe Wilson’s You Lie remark against Obama tonight. Joe Wilson’s You Lie remark came during President Obama’s speech on health care as it relates to immigrants.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

The above is a screengrab at the moment of reaction after the outburst.

The exchange went as follows:

Obama: The reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal.
Wilson: You Lie!
Obama: That is not true.

Wilson has since apologized in a statement:

“I let my emotions get the best of me.

“While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”

Obama has yet to comment tonight.

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Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina said to President Obama Wednesday “You lie”. Joe Wilson of South Carolina’s “You lie” remark came during President Obama’s speech to the House on Health Care.

Wilson’s remark was so loud that reportedly most of the House heard it. Unfortunately even the highest quality youtube video online tonight make it still a bit hard to hear for tv viewers:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

Since his “You lie” President Obama remark, Joe Wilson, who is 62, has since issued a written apology to press:

“I let my emotions get the best of me.

“While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”

Wilson’s staff says he’s also phoned the President directly to apology. Instead, Wilson reportedly got Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on the phone.

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PHOTO! Here is a picture and video of Michael Duvall whose alleged interaction with Heidi Dejong Barsuglia headlines new reports. Heidi Dejong Barsuglia is in a new report as Mike Duvall blabbed on a live microphone about stuff  inappropriate for a California state committee hearing.

UPDATE:

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CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO!

The microphone was on and Duvall started talking. Welcome to technology 101, Mr. Duvall:

“Duvall, speaking to a relatively mum Republican colleague seated to his left, apparently had no idea his dais microphone became live beginning about a minute before the start of a cable-televised committee hearing. He was captured in the middle of recounting portions of an affair.?:

Duvall is married with two kids. But you wouldn’t know it by the description of his exploits.

Duvall says into the microphone the following about an unnamed woman: “She wears little eye-patch underwear”. The rest of the tape? It’s crazy, and it’s a bit more fitting for the pages of Maxim that a California hearing.

Michael Duvall sits on the California State Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce as Vice Chair.  And energy is what this story has — too much of it.

That Committee describes itself as the following:

Primary jurisdictions are public utilities; the California Public Utilities Commission; the California Energy Commission; the California Independent System Operator; Electricity Oversite Board; energy companies; common carriers; electricity; alternative energy development and conservation; natural gas; wireless, wireline and cable communications; international trade; Women and Minority Business Enterprises; and tourism.

The OC Register reports today, with aid of a KCAL and OC Weekly reports, that “Orange County Assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, “was caught on tape bragging about … two women who were not his wife.” Duval is 54. The meeting was summer 2009. Dave Lopez for KCAL broke the details of the tape..

“The KCAL report cites unnamed sources who said Duvall was talking about …. two married lobbyists … OC Weekly reporter R. Scott Moxley alleges that one of the lobbyists … is Heidi DeJong Barsuglia, who turned 36 in July.”

CLICK HERE TO SEE HER CALIFORNIA STATE PROFILE

For continuing coverage of the Barsuglia Duvall story on LALATE click here:

http://news.lalate.com/category/california.

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A “Stop Cass Sunstein” drive (stopsunstein.com) has been launched against Obama’s Cass Sunstein pick.

Cass Sunstein’s alleged animal hunting positions is at the core of the opposition movement. Obama ’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs pick draws attention from a reportedly Harvard University conference and other alleged statements in recent years. At that meeting, Cass Sunstein allegedly said:

“We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.”

Stopsunstein.com says the following:

Urge your Senators to vote NO on Sunstein!

Stop the Sunstein Confirmation!!!

President Barack Obama has nominated Cass Sunstein, a radical anti-hunting, anti-gun, animal rights law professor to be his “regulatory czar.”

The website includes other alleged statements by Sunstein:

“[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. “

“Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …”

“[Humans’] willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings.”

“[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture.”

Online: stopsunstein.com

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VIDEO! Watch youtube video of the Gonzales Cantata. The Gonzales Cantata is Alberto Gonzales’ Senate Judiciary Committee hearings put to an opera.

Yes seriously.

The creator is Melissa Dunphy. The cantana is 40 minutes in length and takes Gonzales’ dismissal recordings verbatim.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH  THE CANTATA

Melissa Dunphy says of her Cantana:

“The Gonzales Cantata is a reaction to the drama and politics of events leading up to the resignation of disgraced Fmr. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2007.

“During his hearings before the often brutal Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales became a modern-day Orpheus, alone and defenseless, facing the terrifying Furies in the Underworld. The doomed Orpheus in this tale, however, lacks the noble cause or incredible talent of the mythical Orpheus, and he has even had a hand in the poisoning of his Eurydice the country he serves.

“This is the account of a man who has risen to the level of his own incompetence and must face the terrible consequences without hope of escape or redemption.

“In protest of male domination of American politics, the genders of the performers have been reversed in relation to the characters they portray.”

Gonzales has yet to speak a response … nor sing one.

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