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Atlas Is Shrugging

In Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand, the most productive and creative citizens in the United States — the innovators, risk-takers, artists, entrepreneurs, capitalists, intellectuals, industrialists — overturn the conventional concept of victimhood and go on strike, refusing any longer to be exploited by society, refusing to be demonized as too successful, too rich, too individualistic, too free. Continue reading

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When will Atlas shrug?

As ever more people ride in the wagon and fewer are left to pull it, there will come a breaking point. Crowding taxation onto the highest earners and debt onto our kids, as President Obama proposes, invites collapse. Continue reading

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Ayn Rand on Money

Excepted from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil?  Have you ever asked what is the root of money?  Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist, unless there are … Continue reading

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