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Whole Foods CEO: Obamacare “more like fascism” than socialism

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:34:00 +0000

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey revised his previous description of Obamacare as socialist. "Technically speaking, it's more like fascism," said the self-identifying libertarian, offering a loose-at-best Marxian analysis:

Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it, and that’s what’s happening with our healthcare programs and these reforms.

Ron Paul bids farewell to “psychopathic authoritarians”

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000

In his farewell speech, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the libertarian hero and perennial presidential candidate, elaborated on the government's menacing ways.

Here are some of the notable quotes:

• "If it’s not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties. Prosperity for a large middle class though will become an abstract dream."

• "Everyone claims support for freedom. But too often it’s for one’s own freedom and not for others. Too many believe that there must be limits on freedom. They argue that freedom must be directed and managed to achieve fairness and equality thus making it acceptable to curtail, through force, certain liberties.

Some decide what and whose freedoms are to be limited. These are the politicians whose goal in life is power. Their success depends on gaining support from special interests."

Biff from “Back to the Future” is in the “Atlas Shrugged” sequel

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Considering that "Atlas Shrugged" was a 2011 box office flop (and boasts an 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), it's not clear how much of America will bother watching "Atlas Shrugged Part II," the second movie in the Rand-based trilogy. But one change, according to Slate's Dave Weigel, may increase its appeal: a new, slightly more obscure cast that rings true to the low-budget, independent spirit of the movies:

For all the mockery, for all the liberal gloating about box-office numbers, the first "Atlas" film accidentally cast too many successful actors. Taylor Schilling, the original Dagny Taggart, went on to co-star in "The Lucky One" and the upcoming Ben Affleck movie about the Iran hostage crisis. “She’s a bona fide movie star now,” says Aglialoro. So she’s been replaced by Samantha Mathis, a ’90s star who’s been mounting a kind of comeback. The rest of the cast is also new. It’s libertarian cinema by way of "Doctor Who."