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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. ...9 hours ago -
The Las Vegas Children’s Book Festival
Gently Hew Stone —
Authority: 124
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, ...2 days ago -
Barack Obama, a Black Man, is Now the Most Grotesque Slave Owner in History
Blue Collar Muse —
Authority: 589
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 …3 days ago -
Atlas Resurgent: An Interview With Ayn Rand Biographer Jennifer Burns
Pajamas Media —
Authority: 780
(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 ...4 days ago -
Atlas Shrugged – Part 2 of ?
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
Authority: 438
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 ...5 days ago -
On Dedications
Book Case —
Authority: 114
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 ...5 days 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 ...6 days ago -
Chapman dedicating statue of Ayn Rand today
College Life OC —
Authority: 480
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 ...6 days ago -
Atlas Shrugged Is Real
Tai-Chi Policy —
Authority: 440
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: 110
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: 438
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: 726
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: 798
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 -
Ayn Rand And The TEA Parties
PA Pundits - International —
Authority: 548
By Donald Douglas From Adam Kirsch’s book review at the New York Times , “ Ayn Rand’s Revenge ” (via Memeorandum ): A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand’s libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American ...1 week ago -
Galt’s Gulch: As Neoliberalism and Barack Obama Ascend, Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” Sees a Dramatic Increase in Sales
Prometheus Unbound —
Authority: 141
A sign of anxiety and nostalgia? Conservatives in a time of advancing liberalism are escaping into the “Galt’s Gulch” of Ayn Rand’s fiction. This at the Ayn Rand Institute website: “The spike in sales of Atlas Shrugged more than a half century after its initial publication is truly remarkable,” Dr. ...1 week ago -
“Atlas Shrugged” Part 1 of ?
tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com —
Authority: 438
Okay, I’m finally going to get this rolling. I’ve been rereading Atlas Shrugged again and as I come across what I view are important things, I’ll talk about them. The first “moment” comes in the first chapter when Eddy is talking to James Taggert. They are talking about the future of one of the ...1 week ago -
“Atlas Shrugged” Part 1 of ?
Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate —
Authority: 542
Okay, I’m finally going to get this rolling. I’ve been rereading Atlas Shrugged again and as I come across what I view are important things, I’ll talk about them. The first “moment” comes in the first chapter when Eddy is talking to James Taggert. They are talking about the future of one of the ...1 week ago -
“I’ll stop.”
Sanity Injection —
Authority: 120
In my last post about the Frankenstein House health care bill, I posed the question: Why do the Democrats in Congress think they can spend unlimited amounts of money that we don’t have with no consequences? Peggy Noonan tries to answer that question in her latest column , which I commend to your attention. I was ...1 week ago
