JMartins
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I recommend registrering at TitleZ. It's a free service, which allows you to track how books are doing on the Amazon bestseller list.
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Also, remember to "digg" it (there's a button for this below the article), and post it to your Twitter account if you have one.
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I recommend the following documentary on the origin of political correctness, and how it spread to America. It's from the tv-show "The American Investigator", and was produced by The Free Congress Foundation.
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Lena Headey, who plays the Queen of Sparta in the movie 300, and Sarah Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles would also be a great pick for Dagny Taggart.
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You can watch the full episode here:
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport...pisodeId=221300
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Here's an article called "The coming evangelical collapse", from the Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html
"We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith."
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Latex allergy can only exist within a host, which can be killed through massive exposure to the Catwoman.
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I have a brief question. Do anyone here know the reasons why the Ayn Rand Institute was established in the state of California? I assume it was Peikoff's and Snider's decision.
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To maintain a high level of productivity, one must maintain focus as to prevent oneself from becoming distracted. To ensure this, one requires strong willpower. Obviously, some people have a stronger willpower than others. Are there any factors involved in determining a persons willpower, besides his free will? Would it be correct to say that the only way to increase ones willpower, is through using ones free will to enforce self-imposed regulations?
I'd appreciate some insight into this.
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Michelle Malkin, talking about "Going Galt" on Neil Cavuto.
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I've been told that Jean-Baptiste Say's "A Treatise on Political Economy" is the best work on economics for Objectivists. Is this true, and how does it compare to "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises?
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This scene, from 300. In fact, all scenes from 300.
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Glenn is having Dr. Ghate on his show tonight. Quickly tune in!
Ah, impressive. I hope it's made avaliable somewhere... I need to find out how to get access to FOX here in Norway.
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Saying that they are doing it to kill the competition can be just as well said to anyone who is doing something to promote themselves or their own interests. When I like a girl, I don't flirt with her to kill the competition, I do it because I want her. Yet, the dummy who wants the same thing but doesn't have the ability to get it more often than not will hate me, and feel personally wronged by me. This is the same exact claim, and the consequences are the same: I'm happy, and he is even more miserable than if he realised that I'm not his problem, his own methods of treating girls like they owe him something are. And someone stepping in and enforcing his claim that I should stay away would not help him at all. All that would do is make everyone miserable.
Great analogy Jake, thanks.
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Thanks for providing me with some very insightful arguments.
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I'd appreciate it if someone here could respond to the following criticism of Wal-Mart. Is there a logical fallacy in this argument, or will big corporations such as Wal-Mart profit from employing such tactics? I think I read something about this in "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal", but can't recall what it was.
Whenever a new Wal-Mart moves into an area, they start out with artificially lower prices (often taking a loss, but hey--they can afford it in the big picture) specifically in order to get people excited about their fabulous low prices and to out-compete pre-existing local businesses. Then once the competition is gone, they slowly jack their prices up to a more-profitable level, sometimes even higher than the now-nonexistent competition's prices had been. I have heard this story in various forms over the years, first from frustrated community members near a new Wal-Mart in Mexico, then from a friend who worked at a Wal-Mart in Idaho, and most recently from talking heads/analysts. I have also observed it for myself in my own community now. -
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What about the other appearance he had, on whatshisname's show on Fox Business a few weeks ago? I tried to look it up, but found nothing.
If anyone has a link I'd say thank you very much. (in Andy Kaufmann's voice too if you wish)
Likewise, I'd love to see his appearance on Neil Cavuto from last week.
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Why that archer has no arrow in his bow?
Good observation – a man attempting to shoot a bow without an arrow doesn't exactly inspire reason.
It's a good logo once that detail is fixed though.
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If we are primitive savages compared to a highly advanced alien race that comes to Earth, do they have a moral right to do to us, what "we" did to the native Indians?
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The Ayn Rand Center is also active on Twitter now.
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I'm interested in learning the Objectivist position on the following agencies; FBI, CIA and NSA. Are they considered fully legitimate for government funding, and vital to national security? That's always been my opinion, though I've never heard an Objectivist intellectual comment on either before. Do you believe them to be operating as they should, or is there good reason to believe that they, too, are acting on a policy of self-sacrifice? Do you believe that either of them are infringing too much on our personal liberties?
Thank you.
Restroom Privacy
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I voted for "I prefer sex-segregated restrooms: I am male". For some reason I don't want to be reminded that women aren't completely pure and clean superbeings who don't really need to use the toilet at all. I don't want my extremely romanticized image of them to be threatened, I guess.