There’s been a lot of talk lately about free market types “going Galt” to protest current economic policies. This provokes my friend Jeff, and many others, to say “Go ahead, be my guest.” They’re right that few productive people are really going to venture off int...

     Everyone from Michelle Malkin to Rush Limbaugh to the Wall Street Journal to The Economist to Instapundit to Forbes to Steven Levitt at the New York Times has been talking about how the world is turning into an Ayn Rand novel – and that novel, as I’ve been reporting...

PART TWO OF TWO PARTS In the previous post I discussed the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’, and how the intent of that novel is most relevant right now. So, then how does something like this apply to the current situation we are in now? Is it just following something from a fiction novel...

The second personage of the Libertarian Chick Triumvirate is the grand duchess of liberty herself, Ayn Rand—who was a contemporary of fellow founder of modern libertarianism Rose Wilder Lane , whom I featured a couple days ago. The downside of Ayn Rand is the debating society, known as libertarian...

Are you Going John Galt?  I ask, because as The Reign of The Obamessiah kicks in, more and more Americans are going on strike, and “Going John Galt.â€�  Explains Michelle Malkin, who characterises it as ‘Going Galt’: America's Wealth Producers Vs. Wealth Redistributors,    ...

Michelle Malkin TonyfromOz prefaces ….. The reference in the title refers to one of the main characters in the book ‘Atlas Shrugged‘ written by Ayn Rand in 1957. If you haven’t read this book, I urge you to get a copy. It’s as relevant now as it was when it was first wr...

All of the government's pesky market intrusions have people snapping up copies of Atlas Shrugged like they were bailout packages. Since it's not like Ayn Rand's laissez-faire fantasies got us into this mess. Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, architect of the endless free credit of the 2000s, was famo...

While I was off air yesterday, I was sent loads of links to so much good reading that I was in no position to post. So I figured I’d take a ramble through it all this morning. How bad is the world’s economic crisis?  Take it from George Soros, who while never entirely disinterested is alway...

* * In the wake of the passing of the Obamessiah’s US$787 billion ‘Throw-Money-at-Everything-You-Can-Think-Of’ Bill, Glenn Beck talks to Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute about the parallels between Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged and what’s happening right now in the world’s econo...

Al Jazeera Signs Deal to Air Throughout U.S. Hundreds of thousands have marched in the streets of Paris, New York, London, Florida, Copenhagen, San Fran etc., calling for the death of the Jews, and the media won't cover.There were tens of thousands of rockets fired into southern Israel for years, an...