In anticipation of the new Ron Howard film due to be released later this month, I’ve been re-reading Dan Brown’s book Angels & Demons.
I wouldn’t say Brown is a tremendously clever writer. Frankly, I think he’s little more than a competent storyteller. But what he does better than most is combine historical and scientific fact [...]
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Mob Rule
March 20th, 2009 · No Comments · AIG, Ayn Rand, BonusGate, Constitution, Federal Reserve, Media Bias, Money, Politics, Pork, Ron Paul
I wonder if the employees of AIG who are harmed (in their person or their property) can sue Congress or the Attorney General of the state of New York when the mobs that were stirred up against them succeed?
Google “AIG Mobs” and you’ll see what Congress and the willing media have wrought.
Or read the story [...]
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Tea Parties Make a Comeback As America “Goes Galt”
March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · American Revolution, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Founding Fathers, John Galt, Media Bias, Michelle Malkin, Tea Party
Have you heard of the new political movement sweeping the U.S.?
It’s called a tea party, and it’s not about Earl Grey (hot or otherwise). It’s the kind made famous in Boston some three centuries ago when American colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest the British tea tax. This and other actions lead to [...]
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Article: Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis
March 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Economics, Money, Politics
I came across this article and thought it was worth passing along. It’s from the Ayn Rand Center For Individual Rights web site, a great resource for independent thinkers:
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009–Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for the same [...]
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So You Think Money Is the Root of All Evil?
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Ayn Rand, Books, Economics, Money
Atlas Shrugged, first published in America in 1957, is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus. Its 1100+ pages are a heady mixture of epic storytelling (how’s the end of the world grab you?) and pragmatic lessons in economics. It contains one of the most famous passages in American literature, which I briefly excerpt from pages 410-415 of [...]
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