Lew, regarding Bush’s veto of the bill allowing federal funds to be used for stem-cell research, of course, expect the Randians to take the wrong, statist line on this. They don’t oppose Bush for not being consistent, or for not preventing enough wastes of tax dollars; oh no, as Sheldon Richman blogged, the Ayn Rand Institute opposed Bush’s veto of the bill as “immoral” ! So devoted are Randroids to supporting the notion that unborn humans are “mere” “clumps of cells,” that they are willing to support tax funding of scientific research. Richman has also recently pointed out that the Ayn Rand Institute also “Endorses Slaughter of Palestinians“.
You know, I used to think it was silly when Objectivists denied that the political part of their philosophy was basically libertarian. I take it back. They are no libertarians.
9:16 am on July 20, 2006
