Current Events Archive
John Galt is smiling
The allusions to Atlas Shrugged in the mainstream media are just getting better and better. From the new Bloomberg article "Obama Needs AIG’s Liddy, Not Other Way Around," by Caroline Baum:
The hero of Ayn ...
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The new Amazon Kindle. Hmm….
The new Amazon Kindle actually looks pretty fantastic. It appears to solve several of the problems I have experienced, over the years, with reading on my Treo and my iPhone:
The Kindle is more like ...
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Now you’ve heard of Adam Shepard
I enjoyed reading Charles Platt's expose of what it's really like to work at Wal-Mart -- lack of unions and all.
At the end comes this gem:
If you haven’t heard of Adam Shepard ... His remarkable ...
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Fred Thompson on why we should be optimistic about the economy
Another instant classic from Fred Thompson.
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Our street makes the national news
December 26, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Personal
Today's AP story "Storm blankets West with snow, ice glazes Midwest" includes a photo showing 17-year old Brandon Baxter plowing Thompson Street, in front of our house. The AP reporter who took this photo ...
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Contra Ayn Rand, and Gordon Gekko, greed is NOT good
Here is a point I've been meaning to make publicly to other Objectivists for many years. I posted this as a comment on John Enright's post.
Ayn Rand called Galt's Gulch a "utopia of greed" ...
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Good economic ideas from the Newt
September 23, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Politics
Newt Gingrich wins my award for best commentary on the financial crisis, for his recent article in NRO, "Before D.C. gets our money, it owes us some answers."
And Kathy sent me a link to Newt's ...
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On keeping our heads, and hearts, this election season
I received the following from a new reader, Andrea Pflaumer. She offered that I could publish it here for Mudita Journal readers, and I'm delighted to take her up on the offer.
For the next ...
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For the record: U.S. economy doing rather well
September 4, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Politics
UPDATE (Oct 10): The title of this post has become quite ironic given the events of the past few weeks. I would still challenge any critic of Bush's economic policies (which I don't care ...
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What do you think of Sarah Palin?
September 4, 2008 · Category: Current Events, Politics
I'd be very curious to know what Mudita Journal readers think of Sarah Palin.
If you didn't see her acceptance speech tonight, you can watch it here. Or you can read a text summary (with ...
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