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• Could Asians Be Assimilating On Western Free Market Ideals?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 131
  Asians now comprise as the fastest growing nationalities among foreign students in America. Thats according to the Economist , ``STUDENTS flock to American universities from all over the world. But according to the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, over 40% of the 106,123 foreign students in the country ...
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• The Passion of Ayn Rand

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 434
  Who knew? Apparently, it was a 1999 TV movie . I only happened to run across it quite by accident while searching for a particular track from one of my favourite progrock bands, but it struck me as quite amusing. Anyway, a little late night music. Feel free to discuss objectivism if you like… I know our ...
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• “Voices for Reason” Now on Kindle

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 141
  WASHINGTON–The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights is pleased to announce that its daily blog Voices for Reason is now available for download onto the Kindle reader. The blog delivery service can be purchased through Amazon.com for $1.99 per month. From Amazon: “Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to ...
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• Life at HOK 2009 Reading List

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 135
  What do planners and designers read? Just in time to provide us all with some desperately needed last-minute holiday gift ideas, we asked our Life at HOK bloggers to tell us the books they most enjoyed in 2009. In return we got nothing resembling a trend, unless you can spot one amid the detective novels, cult ...
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• Links: Tidying Up Before The Holidays

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 560
  Edward P. Jones ‘ The Known World is now available in Arabic . (Can’t “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize” be translated too?) J.D. Salinger figured that The Catcher in the Rye was unfilmable . He also noticed when somebody needed a new typewriter ribbon . One man’s effort to rehabilitate the ...
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• Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Polemical Porn

  
  Popdose — Authority: 640
  Here’s the thing about reading Ayn Rand : She forces you to think the way she does. Once you’ve immersed yourself in her black-and-white worldview — and once you’ve adjusted your expectations to accommodate her rhetorical method, in which every fictional event is created as a forum in which she can ...
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• If I had a vote, I’d vote against Bernanke.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 543
  Ben’s problem is that his view of reality is one-sided. He’s an inflationist, a disciple of Greenspan, who was a disciple of Ayn Rand. Ben believes only in the Sunlight, only in the Summer, only in the ‘Growth Stage’….only in expansion. A society can’t expand for ever. That’s why interest rates go two ...
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• The Devil and Rand Paul

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 673
  Just when you begin to think that its literally impossible for Rand Pauls Senatorial campaign to get any more entertaining: The gentleman behind the mike is Chris Hightower, Rand Pauls campaign spokesman. In addition to his affection for Satan , Mr. Hightower appears to have demonstrated an unfortunate aversion ...
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• Ayn Rand was a total crackpot.

  
  Ssnot! — Authority: 122
  In case anybody didnt know that... http://www.slate.com/?id=2233966 In her 70s Rand found herself dying of lung cancer, after insisting that her followers smoke because it symbolized "mans victory over fire" and the studies showing it caused lung cancer were Communist propaganda. By then she had driven almost ...
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• Anthem by Ayn Rand

  
  Food or Poison — Authority: 92
  Atlas Shrugged gets most of the press nowadays, but Ayn Rand has another work that perhaps serves as a better introduction to her works. Particularly for younger folks, Anthem provides a glimpse into Ayn Rand’s sense of life that is far shorter and more accessible than Atlas Shrugged. Amazon’s description ...
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• Was Ayn Rand a prophet, or scapegoat?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Ayn Rand is back. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the long-dead novelist and philosopher has become prophet and a scapegoat. Liberals blame her for the economic collapse, citing the influence of her most famous acolyte, Alan Greenspan. Conservatives hail her as a visionary who saw it ...
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• Ayn Rand and America’s New Culture War

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  From Rush Limbaugh to President Obama, Ayn Rand and her book Atlas Shrugged are recalibrating America.From Fox News to the passenger sitting next to you reading “Atlas Shrugged” on your commute to work, Ayn Rand seems to be everywhere. Since the economic collapse of 2008, the controversial novelist and philosopher ...
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• Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer: Ayn Rand and William Hickman

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  "A wonderful, free, light consciousness" born of the utter absence of any understanding of "the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people." Obviously, Ayn Rand was most favorably impressed with Mr. Hickman. He was, at least at that stage of Rands life, her kind of man. So the question is, who exactly was he? ...
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• Individualism In Action

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 490
  It’s not often that I allow my personal life to seep into what I contribute to publications such as United Liberty, but I found what was occurring in my life has been relevant enough to mention here. I have had a friend for many years who has lived quite an altruistic life. His choice of schools and jobs was never ...
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• The FCC’s Mark Lloyd: Enemy of Freedom

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 141
  WASHINGTON–“Suppose you heard of someone who, in spite of its bloody and impoverished history, advocated socialism,” writes Don Watkins, an analyst with the Ayn Rand Center. “Suppose that person thought the key to moving America toward socialism was using government power to ensure the media pushed an ...
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• “Just War Theory” Is the Wrong Theory, Mr. President

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 141
  WASHINGTON–In President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech he spoke of the need for waging “just wars.” Summarizing Just War Theory accurately, he said, “I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans, or in other places that have been scarred by war.” And ...
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• Robert Mayhew Reviews Jennifer Burns

  
  NoodleFood — Authority: 503
  Dr. Robert Mayhew reviews Jennifer Burns new book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right in the latest issue of The Objective Standard Regarding the book, Mayhew writes: What readers might have expected--what such a book could have been--is a presentation of the development of Ayn Rands ...
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• Political Culture: Ayn Rand Takes a (Midas) Mulligan

  
  Popdose — Authority: 640
  When I was a senior in college, instead of prepping for a career as a Rand-ian Master of the Universe with high-level courses in economics or engineering, I chose a pair of classes in Northwestern’s speech department: “Rhetoric of Popular Culture” and “Rhetoric of Popular Music.” The professor for both was a ...
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• 14 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 435
  German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is probably the most quotable of all modern philosophers because much of his philosophy was written in short aphorisms:It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.He has been widely misinterpreted, however. For example, because of his use of the ...
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• Gandhigiri and Libertarianism

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 118
  Since last three days, we are trying to scrutinize the philosophical and political aspects of Mahatma Gandhi. It does not matter whether Gandhi ji were Libertarian or not, it is a basic truth that his experiment with non-violence, to assert the fundamental idea of liberty were a success, and they can be used further ...
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