Bill Maher on Ayn Rand: ‘It’s all stuff that seems very deep when you’re 19 years old

Rand certainly was not a conservative. She would have, rightfully, spit on idiots like ila and nova.

Politically, she was a libertarian. Her biggest criticism of them is that they were willing to work with theists and those who accepted moral premises different from her own.

Many of the people who have criticized her ideas and those who claim to support them have only ever read her fiction.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
It's true. In her elder years Rand was solely dependent on SS for income. In her later years Ronald Reagan attempted to make her a conservative movement icon, which I'm sure would have netted her substantial income, but she publically rebuffed him and that was the end of that. Shortly there after she died.
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No, it is not true. She had other income but she was certainly dependent on Medicare as her and her husband had cancer. She had to sign up for ss to receive that.
 
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar said:
No, it is not true. She had other income but she was certainly dependent on Medicare as her and her husband had cancer. She had to sign up for ss to receive that.
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In 1991, a survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible. Rand's books continue to be widely sold and read, with 25 million copies sold as of 2007
Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year, so far totaling more than 25 million.

Rand was 71 when a consultant from her attorney's office finally persuaded her to apply for SS and Medicare...which she had paid into since they started....died at home at 77 or heart failure.....her cancer operation was done 2 years before she signed up for Medicare.

No one knows what benefits she actually used from Medicare....she was foolish not to take advantage of it years before, she paid for it.
 
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In 1991, a survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible. Rand's books continue to be widely sold and read, with 25 million copies sold as of 2007
Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year, so far totaling more than 25 million.

Rand was 71 when a consultant from her attorney's office finally persuaded her to apply for SS and Medicare...which she had paid into since they started....died at home at 77 or heart failure.....her cancer operation was done 2 years before she signed up for Medicare.

No one knows what benefits she actually used from Medicare....she was foolish not to take advantage of it years before, she paid for it.
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Do you know anything at all about Rand's life, or do you just go to Wikipedia and cut & paste what you find there?
 
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In 1991, a survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club asked club members what the most influential book in the respondent's life was. Rand's Atlas Shrugged was the second most popular choice, after the Bible. Rand's books continue to be widely sold and read, with 25 million copies sold as of 2007
Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year, so far totaling more than 25 million.

Rand was 71 when a consultant from her attorney's office finally persuaded her to apply for SS and Medicare...which she had paid into since they started....died at home at 77 or heart failure.....her cancer operation was done 2 years before she signed up for Medicare.

No one knows what benefits she actually used from Medicare....she. foolish not to take advantage of it years before, she paid for it.
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Cost associated with cancer don't end at an operation. She applied because of the medical bills.
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
Yes he could be a little pompous but you can excuse that in someone who was a brilliant writer, journalist and raconteur. It's ironic though that his brother, who is considered more right wing, was against the second Iraq War whilst he was for it.
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Christopher believed Islam was the eminent threat to the West, and saw Iraq in larger terms. His brother sees the West as facing many threats, most of them self-imposed.
 
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