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Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, before he said he didn't (LA Times)
Back in 2005, an up-and-coming lawmaker named Paul Ryan credited the polemical novelist and libertarian Ayn Rand as a central inspiration for his entry into public life. Ryan toiled in those days in relative obscurity, a well-respected but low-profile member of the House of Representatives ...
... He told the Weekly Standard in 2003 that he gave his staffers copies of “Atlas Shrugged” as Christmas presents ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-vp-paul-ryan-ayn-rand-20120811,0,1175099.story
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Can't 'those people' ever just tell the effing truth? It's wearing thin
