Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The Trump administration lives in the libertarian past of Atlas Shrugged, in John Galt's 1957, when US GDP was 40% of world GDP and everybody needed us more than we needed them

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They are as stupid as they are insufferably arrogant.   US GDP as a share of world GDP has been in steady decline since 1960 to just 26% in ...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Erick Erickson is still too wet behind the ears to appreciate how National Review made purging conservatives from the movement its persona, Twitter just puts that on steroids

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Catholics excommunicate. Protestants self-excommunicate. Get with it, Erick.           National Review ’s Own Struggle With ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Blame the libertarians for handing Romney his loss in 2012, not conservatives

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Third parties bled away over 60% of the few votes Romney lost by in his failed eastern strategy in Election 2012. Mitt Romney's bid ...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Like flies on manure, the libertarians swarm to any story about Ayn Rand

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CNBC.com has a story up celebrating the 110th birthday of Ayn Rand, here  (I don't recall seeing one for Ronald Reagan this week, wh...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Libertarian free-trade presidents named BUSH get the most blame for lost manufacturing jobs

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Since Jimmy Carter took office in January 1977, during whose term manufacturing jobs reached their zenith of 19.5 million, 5.6 million n...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Ayn Rand worshipper wearing the glasses went on to ruin the country in 2008, nobody else

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And Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, once represented by Gerald Ford and now by Justin Amash, still reeks with the putrid smel...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

The problem with free-market ideology in our time isn't about the tax code, it's about patriotism

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Free-marketeers in our time want to wipe away the favors of the tax code, many of which go to the middle class in the form of credits and de...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Rush Limbaugh, Confused About Conservatism, Talked Up Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED Just Last September

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Here . And also in May 2012 in "Atlas is Starting to Shrug" here , steering another caller to the book and drawing parallels to cu...