I saw those pictures of her taken last Thursday; Whitney looked like a mess.

No one who paid any attention should be surprised at this news, which is the saddest part of it.

Samuel L. Jackson just reminded me why I should stop complaining so much about how I don't really care for any of the four remaining GOP candidates for POTUS, but I have to vote for one of them in November because 0bama is worse.

I don't like voting for the lesser of two evils, but that is preferable to picking a candidate based on race.

Even the uber-progressive website G*wker is acknowledging Big Hollywood these days, most recently when G*wker got their knickers in a bunch over Crowder and Chris Loesch's musical debut at CPAC.

Pigeon-holing Rand's philosophical underpinnings is a red herring that does nothing to undermine her central point, which is that whatever its intentions, centralized government and the welfare state erode individual human freedom.

So wealth producers don't pay state and local taxes (property taxes, for instance), sales taxes, capital gains taxes, or any other sort of tax beyond the FICA?

Go back to HuffPo for some better talking points.

The trolls must also mention that Ayn Rand began accepting Medicare after being diagnosed with lung cancer, right before underscoring their point that Rand was a hypocrite because when she was given the choice of whether to enroll in Medicare, she voluntarily declined.

What's that? She wasn't given a choice in whether to contribute to government health care programs, and those programs took money she earned without her consent her entire working life in the US? Therefore, she was only re-claiming a bit of what the government took from her? Funny how the progressive trolls leave that out...

I can't get over how funny it is that OWS claims to represent 99% of the population, yet every time someone actually from OWS physically assaults police, crashes an SUV in to a building, hurls a smokebomb over the White House fence, rapes a woman, stabs someone, overdoses on heroin, is infected with scabies, or rants about the Joooooos controlling the media, that person is not affilated with OWS and they don't know him.

99% or .05% of .003%? Can't have it both ways.

"...he's probably just trying to deflect attention from his own declining empire while trying to discredit a black woman who dares to disagree with him politically in an influential way..."

You know how to tell when you've won an argument with a progressive?

I'd like to think Oprah's support of 0bama is hurting her financially, and it is certainly possible.

But a simpler explanation might be that "Oprah" is a content-free, poorly edited mess of navel-gazing psycho-babble.

That pablum sold well on Oprah's TV show, but it may not work so well in print form.

"Personally I could care less if gay people want to marry."

I agree with you.

But I also believe that the courts, and the federal government, should stay out of the issue of defining marriage. Leave that question to the voters of each state, and recognition of gay marriage to each religious group within states that choose to recognize gay marriage.

My disagreement with the Ninth Court is not about the issue of gay marriage; I would have voted against Prop. 8 if I lived in California. Since the voters chose to define marriage as being between one man and one woman, I would have accepted the will of the people on this issue.

My disagreement is with the usurpation of the Tenth Amendment by the Ninth Court, and the negation of the right of the voters to decide such issues as the definition of marriage for themselves.

I see no harm in gay marriage, but that is not the issue. The issue is the progressive tactic of ignoring the Tenth Amendment, and the principle of democracy to which they pay lip-service.