Rand Shrugged | Weekly Top Ten

Week ending Friday, April 22, 2011           Weekly Highlight: Rand Shrugged By Abby Zimet Questionable Role Model Dept: The right is big on Ayn Rand these days, with a new Atlas Shrugged film opening and everyone from Paul Ryan to Rush Limbaugh giddily citing her "virtue of selfishness" and other appalling tenets. ThinkProgress has more on the Right's infatuation with her and her shifty-eyed beliefs; more here on "a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion." Dear readers, We learned that right in the middle of our spring campaign this past week that our secure credit card processor was offline for several hours on a few occasions. Donations were not processing. If you encountered this and gave up, please try again. If you didn't give yet, please give now and help us reach our goal this weekend. We are close - only $6,000 to go!  Please give today! We can't do it without you, our readers. Thanks! Our Weekly Most Read Views... Ralph Nader: Waiting for the Spark Chris Hedges: Throw Out the Money Changers Rania Khalek: Corporate Coup d’état Coming Soon to a City Near You Noam Chomsky:Is the World Too Big to Fail? John Nichols: How Socialists Built America Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order Donna Smith: Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting Tom Engelhardt: Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark John Nichols: Palin's Madison Rally is Overwhelmed by Protest Crowd Brian Tierney: US Uncut: The New Movement against Austerity and Corporate Tax Cheats Our Weekly Most Read Headlines... Obama Ran Against Bush, But Now Governs Like Him No End in Sight for Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan Obama to Thousands of Young Climate Activists: Push Me As Offshoring Continues, US Public Peeved at "Free Market" Obama Fundraiser Interrupted by Protesters Seeking Release of Bradley Manning Wikileaks: 'US Helped Israel with UN Gaza War Probe' GOP Wave Reshapes Nation's Agenda State by State Path to Municipal Privatization? Emergency Chief Takes Action against Benton Harbor, Michigan Super Rich See Federal Taxes Drop Dramatically Van Jones At Power Shift 2011: ‘While They’re Stuck On Stupid In DC, Your Generation Is Rising’ Home About Us Donate Sign Up Archives Video Highlights... Democracy Now! Today's Live Stream How Much Did YOU Pay for War This Year? A Radical Experiment in Empathy: Sam Richards at TED.com Bill McKibben at Power Shift 2011: 'We're Going to Create the Future We Need Ourselves'   Bahrain's Iron Fist, Regional Implications, and the Role of US Policy Founded in 1997, CommonDreams.org is an Internet-based progressive news and grassroots activism organization. We are nonprofit, independent and nonpartisan. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. © Copyright 1997-2011 You are subscribed to Common Dreams as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe