In case you are still one of those undecided voters, here are a list of endorsements that you should see for yourself. Endorsing Kerry: Yasser Arafat, the French, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, the Arab American Political Action Committee, the Communist Party USA. Endorsing Bush: the National Rifle Association, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pat Buchanan. I haven't seen outright endorsements from groups like National Right to Life, Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family Action, Americans for Prosperity, National Taxpayers Union, National Federation of Independent Business but from their positions on different issues, the chance of them supporting Kerry is like the chance of hell freezes over.

I read her book, The Fountainhead, but did not know much about Ayn Rand. Today, reading my Federalist 04-42 brief, it mentioned her name. I did a google search and found her biography. The one thing that jumped out at me is her marriage to Frank O'Connor. Here was a Hollywood couple married in 1929 until his death fifty years later, without the irreconcilable non-sense divorce we see with every couple in Hollywood these days.