[BlackElk]

1. Rush never posed as a scholar or as infallible.

2. Logical fallacies????? Right, chief! La Rand's tendency to write in the style which Whittaker Chambers called "To a gas chamber, go!!!!" is also a reflection of her character and her philosophical shortcomings.

3. La Rand's novels are OK for adolescents. She loses most of them when they grow up.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"1. Rush never posed as a scholar or as infallible."

Are you going to email him and tell him he committed a conservative sin by advocating an objectivist book?

"La Rand's tendency to write in the style which Whittaker Chambers called "To a gas chamber, go!!!!" is also a reflection of her character and her philosophical shortcomings."

Chambers was a moron when it came to Rand's work. There is no possible way you can find ANY similarity with her work and *gas chambers* and still be intellectually honest.

" 3. La Rand's novels are OK for adolescents. She loses most of them when they grow up."

Yes, many become good collectivists and drift to other things.

Your whole tangent of bringing up Rand is a logical fallacy of course. You see a few quotes of her on my homepage and assume I believe everything she did. I also posted quotes from Locke and Jefferson. Are you going to denigrate them now too?

"Gee, doesn't that sound like a Nietzschean super race theory that Hitler had there?????"

No. Nietzsche was no proto-Nazi. The Nazis perverted his thought as they did everything else they touched. Nietzsche was against antisemitism and against nationalism. He had nothing in common with the Nazis.

"Lest I forget, libertoonianism is NOT conservatism, much less is the "objectivism" of La Rand conservatism. Atheism is not conservatism either."

Lest we forget, you brought up Rand as a diversion from the topic of the thread. Talk about an intellectual lightweight. :)