Collectivist Care, What ‘They’ Choose, You Lose.

Where is Liberty?

Given that every instance of collectivism…

Requires the Force of Government to initiate, regulate and administer; and

Eliiminates all rights of all individuals to determine and act in whatever they perceive as being in their individual best interest, and steals from the citizens whatever monies government, [...]

From the Academy to Atlas Shrugged: An Appreciation

April 2, 2009 From the Academy to Atlas Shrugged: An Appreciation

By noreply@blogger.com (Edward Cline) from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

Were you alive in Aristotle‘s time, had attended his lectures at the Academy, and had read his works, as well, would you have grasped the importance of those works to your existence? Would [...]

Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

Politicians invariably respond to crises — that in most cases they themselves created — by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs…and the downward spiral repeats itself until…

good article, particularly that it describes precisely the merry-go-round on which [...]

Atlas Shrugged? In my real life?

It’s more likely than you think.

Atlas is Shrugging, and the people will come to know “who is John Galt”?

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To my Digg Friends, from Dean Striker

Today I made a single Digg comment somewhere, which was picked up by Sassy, and motivated me to get this written.

That comment perhaps gave a slightly wrong impression, that I am leaving Digg.  No, I am merely pulling (partly) back from Digg, because it seems more important to me that I have time to [...]

They just don’t get it!

Striker posted In response to The Madness of Ayn Rand

Uh, who is mad? Submitted by Dean Striker on April 19, 2008 – 3:11pm.

I’m not really an “YoungPerson”, having made Atlas Shrugged my bible back about 1963. Objectivism and stereotypical conservatism are apples and oranges, having little or no correlation. Ayn Rand defined for [...]