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This must be a slow news week. The raging controversy is whether the Republican Candidate for the Senate would have voted for a bill, that was passed when he was one year old.
As you probably know by know, Rand Paul ( born in 1963) was harassed this week by Rachel Maddow ( born in 1973) about the Civil Rights Act ( passed in 1964).
For some reason, Miss Maddow (spell check suggestions: Maddox, Madden, Madder) is determined to find out how Mr. Paul feels about a law that most of us accept without thinking. To his discredit, when asked a yes/no question, Mr. Paul says something other than yes/no.

Did anyone know that Rand Paul announced his candidacy for the Senate on the Rachel Maddow show? The video is embedded above. Could it be that Rachel Maddow is secretly working to help the Rand Paul campaign? The shows this week have gotten Mr. Paul tons of publicity. Is it really going to hurt Mr. Paul that a short haired media woman grills him about civil rights for black people?

The other part of the story is whether Rand Paul is named for Ayn Rand. A few clever youtube titles have come out of this, and it gives name recognition to the Paul campaign…it’s all good.
Randal Howard Paul used to be called Randy, until his wife got him to drop the y. While he does admire Ayn Rand, and his father may have met the former Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, there is no connection between the two names.
Rand Paul is not the most handsomest person in politics, but he does not look like a typewriter. The story on Ayn Rand is that she got her pen name from a Remington Rand typewriter.
Pictures are from the ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”. Included are two images of Herman Talmadge (spell check suggestions:Talmud.Talisman), who did not vote for the Civil Rights Act.