• • Undermining 1st Amendment from the top 

Ayn Rand Center  | Don Watkins, an analyst with the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, writes: “You might think this radical call for government control of the media is at odds with the First Amendment and the ideals of its authors. Not according to [Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Officer Mark] Lloyd and his fellow travelers, who portray their vision of a government-funded press as a continuation of the American tradition. The founders, they say, weren’t committed to protecting a profit-seeking press from government control. Instead, their primary concern was making sure the press could effectively educate and inform Americans, and they obsessively sought to subsidize the press in order to achieve that goal.” Lloyd’s approach is dangerous in a country founded on the ideal of free speech, with the founders even writing into the Bill of Rights the guarantee of a free press.  

• •Thanksgiving tribute to U.S. production 

As Dr. Gary Hull, co-editor of The Ayn Rand Reader and senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, Calif., says: “Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, because this country was the first to create and to value material abundance."