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The Rise of the Artist.. or, Ayn Rand’s Music Industry
BlogSounds —
Authority: 99
This graph is from a recent entry over at the Times Labs Blog called “ Do music artists fare better in a world with with illegal file-sharing? “ “This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see… The most immediate revelation, of course, is that at some point next year revenues from gigs ...14 hours ago -
Book Review: "Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right"
United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government —
Authority: 604
There are few figures in the American libertarian movement that gave rise to as much controversy or passion as Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, it’s hard to find a libertarian who doesn’t have an opinion about the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged . For many of us, she was the one who lit the ...1 day ago -
Altas Shrugged Part #3 of ?
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
Authority: 437
Okay, here’s a question for you. Let me set the stage. Dagny and her brother James are in her office and they are arguing over the service levels that are currently in place on the Rio Norte Line (their railroad that runs down into Mexico). Dagny had cut service levels, was running one passenger train ...4 days ago -
Socialism and Cuckoo Eggs: A Scary Parallel
JVBlogger —
Authority: 114
Watching Richard Attenborough’s “Life of Birds” on PBS last night, I saw a striking example of nature’s socialist counterpart – the Cuckoo. There are so many parallels, and the analogy clearly describes the win/lose basis of socialism. Nest Intrusion Female European Cuckoos lay their eggs only in the nests ...4 days ago -
Who’s Your John Galt?
The Contrarian —
Authority: 132
I swear to you, I did not write the following piece — it literally showed up in my inbox this morning. That said, it’s too good NOT to publish. This item is apparently a response to rumors that Ayn Rand ‘ s capitalist comic book Atlas Shrugged will soon be transformed into a big-budget motion picture. ...4 days ago -
Altas Shrugged Part #3 of ?
Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate —
Authority: 542
Okay, here’s a question for you. Let me set the stage. Dagny and her brother James are in her office and they are arguing over the service levels that are currently in place on the Rio Norte Line (their railroad that runs down into Mexico). Dagny had cut service levels, was running one passenger train ...4 days ago -
The Las Vegas Children’s Book Festival
Gently Hew Stone —
Authority: 126
Yesterday, for the second year in a row, my wife and I took the kids to the annual Children’s Book Festival, sponsored by Target and part of the city’s larger Vegas Valley Book Festival. We agreed that out of all the local events we go to, this is our favorite. It’s held in the beautiful Centennial Plaza, ...1 week ago -
Barack Obama, a Black Man, is Now the Most Grotesque Slave Owner in History
Blue Collar Muse —
Authority: 598
Readers who liked this post also enjoyed: ACORN’s 15 State Strategy for Voter Fraud The Bailout in Layman’s Terms Exposing Obama/Democrat Ties to Financial Crisis America is Lucky to Have Democrats …1 week ago -
Atlas Resurgent: An Interview With Ayn Rand Biographer Jennifer Burns
Pajamas Media —
Authority: 785
(Want to download instead of streaming? Click here to download this 18 minute long interview. Or click here to download the lo-fi edition.)Taken from the November 7th edition of Pajamas Media.com’s PJM Political on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS Channel, Ed Driscoll interviews Jennifer Burns, assistant ...1 week ago -
Atlas Shrugged – Part 2 of ?
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
Authority: 437
As the “narrator” is “introducing” Dagny Taggart, he says something that I believe is very important about her….. “She did the work long before she got the title.” He was talking about how she made her way through the various jobs she had at Taggart Transcontinental. But think about it, how many ...1 week ago -
On Dedications
Book Case —
Authority: 115
Dedications. Those small, quiet lines at the front of the book that give the reader a brief flash of insight into the world of the writer rather than that of the story. A note of thanks to a lover, friend, relative or mysterious initialed associate, “The dedication of the novel is the most personal and [...]Related ...1 week ago -
Atlas Shrugged – Part 2 of ?
Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate —
Authority: 542
As the “narrator” is “introducing” Dagny Taggart, he says something that I believe is very important about her….. “She did the work long before she got the title.” He was talking about how she made her way through the various jobs she had at Taggart Transcontinental. But think about it, how many ...1 week ago -
Chapman dedicating statue of Ayn Rand today
College Life OC —
Authority: 501
Image by Phyllis Cerf, via Ayn Rand Institute website Chapman University in Orange will today dedicate a bust of the late novelist, philosopher and playwright Ayn Rand ( bio ), whose controversial belief system (known as Objectivism) about how a person should behave is still causing arguments 27 years after she ...1 week ago -
Atlas Shrugged Is Real
Tai-Chi Policy —
Authority: 441
And we’re seeing so more and more every day . The economic model Obama’s following is the same as Massachusetts, high taxes and regulation – and it’s failing . Hillary Clinton even admits that we tax everything that moves . The brightest and best individuals are fleeing companies that are cutting their ...1 week ago -
Are You Unknowingly Involved in a CULT?
JVBlogger —
Authority: 114
The purpose of DollarMakers is to teach people how to become financially free. In order to do so, they need to free their minds first. One of the biggest surprises I received in my life was while I was working on a BA Theology at a Bible College and at the same time doing a BA Psychology at university. To my horror, ...1 week ago -
Atlas Shrugged – a thought….
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
Authority: 437
Okay, this strikes me as a bit ironic. There are many, including me, who believe that a lot of what’s happening in our economy was “foreshadowed” by the book Atlas Shrugged . So, as I’ve got CNBC on this morning, what’s the main story of the morning? Warren Buffett surprised the markets and is ...1 week ago -
Ayn Rand on the Rise
Cosmopolitan Conservative —
Authority: 124
Yesterday, I caught a post on Hot Air about the celebration of Ayn Rand that Reason is holding. Sadly, I missed the event last night, but I found ReasonTV’s newest clip interesting. Long-time readers know that I grew up in an extremely politically conservative family. However, my parents didn’t raise me to ...1 week ago -
Atlas Shrugged – a thought….
Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate —
Authority: 542
Okay, this strikes me as a bit ironic. There are many, including me, who believe that a lot of what’s happening in our economy was “foreshadowed” by the book Atlas Shrugged . So, as I’ve got CNBC on this morning, what’s the main story of the morning? Warren Buffett surprised the markets and is ...1 week ago -
Ayn Rand Revisited
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
Authority: 731
Two new biographies about the irascible and idiosyncratic Ayn Rand, objectivist philosopher and ham-fisted mistress of the capitalist morality tale, show how her rocky Russian childhood and her subsequent self-reinvention campaign in America (partly conducted in Hollywood, of course) influenced her work and how her ...1 week ago -
Rand-O-Rama: The Long Shelf Life of Ayn Rand’s legacy
Big Government —
Authority: 811
Few authors have ever achieved the popularity that the novelist and essayist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) did. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1958, Rand became a full-blown cultural phenomenon, selling millions of books and inspiring countless readers-ranging from former Federal ...1 week ago
