Category Archives: politics

Going Galt

The Russ­ian thinker Ayn Rand con­tin­ues to amuse and intrigue me. Her mind bog­gling influ­ence fas­ci­nates me. If you scan daily jour­nals, you would have undoubt­edly come across crit­ics and reporters con­nect­ing Rand’s the­o­ries with recent finan­cial downturn. Some inter­est­ing excerpts– Like Unlike
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CJR — World of Paine

Today’s fea­ture– If Thomas Paine were alive today, there’s lit­tle doubt you would find him blog­ging from www.commonsense.org, chal­leng­ing con­cen­trated power, con­spic­u­ous wealth, and a cul­ture amus­ing itself to death. Paine would likely have cher­ished the chance to engage his read­ers in debate, and spur them to direct action for bet­ter gov­ern­ment and a more equi­table [...]
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Esquire — What If Obama’s Out of His Mind?

So is Obama crazy? Good question. Some peo­ple — they call them­selves “birthers” — who believe that the pres­i­dent is Kenyan-born and so not eli­gi­ble to be pres­i­dent (and also in uni­corns) have made it their cause to man­date that future pres­i­dents estab­lish their Amer­i­can­ness beyond the shadow of a doubt before being allowed to offer [...]
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