Reason Magazine dug up this quote from a letter to the editor written by a young Alan Greenspan:

Atlas Shrugged is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should. [The New York Times reviewer] suspiciously wonders “about a person who sustains such a mood through the writing of 1,168 pages and some fourteen years of work.” This reader wonders about a person who finds unrelenting justice personally disturbing.

[Via: Hit and Run]

 

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand

Today would have been Ayn Rands 100th birthday. Tonight I drink a toast to a remarkable woman with a remarkable mind who can truly hold claim to being part of the “motor of the world”. The greatest compliment I can give her is to say that my ideas have been transformed by hers, though through a process of a constant antagonistic fight. However, I can truly say that John Galt lives on in this one corner of the world . . .

 

Looks like hard times for the Iraqi insurgency . . .

A photograph posted on an Islamist Web site appears to be that of an action figure and not a U.S. soldier being held hostage.

[Via: CNN.com - So-called U.S. hostage appears to be toy - Feb 1, 2005]

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