I am going to post the new chapter of Causality tomorrow. I have 2nd draft version that I am sending over to Kitt again for edits (I wanted to give as much thought as I could to this chapter). It's a one off story, but it might be interesting and help give readers an understanding of the dynamics within Causality's universe and our own world.

Hope you guys like what comes out and stay tuned.

As for other odds and ends: I probably should mention it, since I had originally signaled this would happen, nearly 3 years ago, when no other Conservative stood up to the plate. Here's a piece of news, liberals will enjoy and Conservatives will likely weep over:

GOP Super PAC prepare to fight Tea Party

It's an official fight within the Party; there's no longer any doubt, second guessing, or platitudes anyone can make to hide the fact. From recent signs like LaTourette turning one of the major GOP funds into a counter to combat Tea Party backers in primaries to little things beyond the public eye..This is the linchpin to a real internal fight, if money is being divided between two or more camps in the GOP; there is now a divided party,

These guys are doing it out of preservation as well as necessity. There is one thing that you can never do: Declare your intention is to default on federal obligations, whether it is "technical" or not. Every business owner and every retirement fund has a huge chunk of the US debt in one form or another, i.e. that money market fund you invest in has US Debt, the bank that you put your money in is insured by US, and your 401K is so leveraged on US debt as a stable source of income.

A few small world minded Tea Partiers envision America as a standalone edifice, its federal government as a hollow shell, and its people as capable of living off their own capability. This is not an Ayn Rand novel, it's reality. Government spending is a problem, but defaulting can never be the answer, no matter how partial it might sound. If the dominoes begin to fall, we won't be able to pick up enough pieces fast enough.

Perhaps, the lesson people don't get is that "Atlas Shrugged" is not viable, not because of all the welfare in the world and all the free handouts that Rand made in her reasoning to stop the modes of production in the book. The "Atlas Shrugged" scenario is dead wrong, because "Objectively" in our modern world with Capitalism as the dominant system of economics and Communism more or less dead with Socialism on its way to the grave (Look at European Austerity on where the winds are blowing), if you try to say "Screw the world" you are not defending the free markets and individualism. You are destroying it and everyone that has built their entire lives around it.

Philosophically, I see this as a fight between Realists and Objectivists. I see it far more clearly and its differences between generations of Conservatives. (If Liberals or conservatives want to understand this split, I advise you guys read Rand's Atlas and Eisenhower's Diaries, I have done both, and I think you will gain an understanding of how Conservatism in America is actually far more complicated than a 10 second MSNBC sound byte)

I cannot promise that this Civil War will be won by good guys; hell, I know I don't want to see a corporatist society either, but I must lean that way between Corporatism and Tea Party Objectivism. Ironically, it is far more functional as a basis for opinion (A concept of Rand's own views )

2014 will be a fight for the ages, not between Liberals and Conservatives, but between Realists and Dreamers. It is time for Conservatives to stop dreaming and start working toward realistic goals.