“Ayn Rand” on The Daily Caller

We skeptics of free trade are used to being told, “You don’t understand economics.”  In fact, one major reason I wrote the book Free Trade Doesn’t Work was simply to expose, once and for all, that there do exist extremely serious and intellectually reputable arguments, within the confines of accepted mainstream economics, which question free trade.  And indeed they exist. (more)

No, says the first-time candidate and Tea Party backed insurgent from Kentucky, his parents didn’t name him after the Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand. (more)

One man drove 12,238 miles and across 30 states in the U.S. to scrawl a message that could only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” (more)

In the years leading up to 2008—09′s financial meltdown, government control over mortgages, interest rates and America’s banking system was at an all-time high. (more)

William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement (more)

NBA star LeBron James is taking heat from Clevelanders who have worked themselves into a fury about his decision to leave his hometown and play pro basketball in Miami. Sports fans have taken to the streets to burn his jersey, his former team’s owner has called him a “coward,” and the Internet is buzzing with scathing anti-LeBron epithets. (more)

Forget the G-20, the BP oil spill, the World Cup, forget even S.E. Cupp. (more)

It’s taken over 60 years, but someone has finally written a great book about Whittaker Chambers. Richard M. Reinsch’s “Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary,” emphasizes a point that has eluded both liberals and conservatives. Chambers, a former Soviet spy, journalist, and author of the masterpiece “Witness,” was also a religious genius. His insights into the human person and the nature of life will far outlive him, and his critics—including his most recent, Glenn Beck. (more)

As Tea Party protests pop up in places like Moscow, Tel Aviv and the Hague, Americans may question whether the Tea Party platform can cross international and cultural borders. For activists outside the U.S., the answer is a resounding “yes.” (more)

When Barack Obama played Monopoly as a kid, I can only imagine he did not carefully cultivate a business reputation and earn enough money to buy properties on Boardwalk and Park Place. He probably created a special Democratic version of Monopoly, [intlink id="236613" type="post"]the Hugo Chavez Edition[/intlink], where he would denounce the owners of properties as “greedy and mean” and then simply legislate himself control of those enterprises—for the “greater good,” mind you. The “greater good,” of course, is the perpetuation of his power.
As long as he can conjure up envy from 51 percent of the population, he can take from the more productive 49 percent, thus creating a culture of dependency. The more people need you, the greater your tributary of votes in the next election. It is sad that the rugged individualists who built this country have slowly been replaced by “hitchhikers of virtue,” as Ayn Rand described them in Atlas Shrugged.
Aside from expanding the misguided policies of the Bush administration by taking over automobile companies, firing CEOs and inserting his own operatives, Obama has bullied financial companies and taken control of one-sixth of the economy with a nefarious health care vote he had to buy from his own party (Louisiana Purchase, Cornhusker Kickback, etc.). His government now has quietly taken complete control of the $72 billion student loan lending business, outlawing any private lending in that area.
Obama has been a strange agent of the “change” he promised. He quickly “changed” Washington, D.C., into [intlink id="669123" type="post"]a corrupt, Chicago-style, political strong-arming system[/intlink] of graft, self-dealing, intimidation and payoffs.
Obama found the Bush administration’s wasteful spending on unnecessary wars of choice and prescription drug entitlements to be a good start. He set out to ramp up the pace, enlisting the audacity of dopes to rack up a record $3.2 trillion in national debt in his first six months. In just five years, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate will run up another $10.5 trillion in debt, as much as it took every President from George Washington through Dubya Bush to accumulate.
Harry Reid looks like a creepy operator. He reminds me of the only proctologist in town who takes your insurance, and Nancy Pelosi is like his wife who works at the practice keeping two sets of books.
Obama’s Washington has impressed many in the world including Fidel Castro, who applauds his efforts. Even the Somali pirates are so taken by his boldness that they have asked to send some of their pirate trainees to Washington to intern with the Obama administration this summer. (more)

Not since porn star Cicciolina was elected to the Italian parliament has there been a sexier political candidate. The first thing you notice is her bust. Round, full, in the Dolly Parton/Jayne Mansfield sense, they are just too “perfect.” Then you notice her eyes: blue, piercing, determined. (more)

It’s been a year since Stephen Moore’s article, “Atlas Shrugged: from Fiction to Fact in 52 Years,”seemed to ignite an explosion of interest in Ayn Rand. Sales of this prescient novel tripled; two Rand biographies have been selling like hotcakes; and references to her in the media have skyrocketed. (more)