• • Ex-Radical: Wall Street Demonstrations Will Lead To Violent Revolution 
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The Fountainhead  |Personal life  | In a Communist society, people only exist for the collective or the State. Ayn Rand, author of the “Fountainhead,” warned how collectivism and communtarianism destroy greatness in individuals and nations. As a young girl, Rand grew up in Russia during the Communist Revolution.  

• Occupy Wall Street & The Constitutional Convention 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | On September 19, Roseanne Barr, the first celebrity to endorse the protest, spoke to protesters calling for a combination of capitalism and socialism and a system not based on “bloated talk radio hosts and that goddamn Ayn Rand book.” (Uh, excuse me Roseanne, I think you’ve been eating too much sugar. We already have a combination of what little remains of capitalism and a huge new amount of socialism - a nice euphemism for full-fledged communism) .  

• • Political and Financial Stew 
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AYN RAND QUOTE FROM ATLAS SHRUGGED: “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . .you may know that your society is doomed.”  

• • Who Is The Manchurian Candidate? 
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Personal life  | Compare the thinking of Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged,” who escaped Communist Russia as a young girl and actually witnessed what Communism was really all about. Unlike candidates like Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Gary Huntsman, and Tim Pawlenty, Ayn Rand understands how the Soviets brainwash through social mechanism like collectivism, communitarianism and consensus. The Soviet Union developed extremely subtle, but effective forms of brainwashing such as collectivism and communitarianism.  

• • One nation under drugs 
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Atlas Shrugged  | If John Galt—the noble, fictional scientist in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged — symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind, FDA approval is his biggest threat. Sloppy FDA standards have created a corporate drug leviathan that is robbing every man, woman and child in its path of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  

• • • General Jones, Donilon, and other boondoggles 
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For the New Intellectual  | In The New Intellectual, Ayn Rand describes the differences between human beings and animals. She points out that we share two ingrained traits: Perception and sensation. [....] According to Ms. Rand, humans have a third capacity. It is the capacity for conceptual thought. It belongs exclusively to humans.  

• • Our cities too big for quality of life 
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Atlas Shrugged  | From their inception, large sky-scraper-dominated and sprawling cities around the world represent the worst of humanity. Ayn Rand, in her bestselling book, Atlas Shrugged, praised sky-scrapers as humanity’s highest achievement. But another author Itzhak Bentov wrote Stalking the Wild Pendulum, a book on how modern man, living in cities, cuts himself off from the natural vibrations of life.  

• • Control freaks 
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"…When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice -- you may know that your society is doomed." -- Ayn Rand  

• The four cardinal errors that almost destroyed America 
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Capitalism  | Everyone who believes that the federal government can spend a society into prosperity, or that printing-press money can generate more than pseudo prosperity (as it did during the 1990s) is under the long-term spell of Keynes. Clearly, and despite his initial defense of the gold standard under Ayn Rand’s temporary and superficial influence, this included Alan Greenspan.  

• • The four cardinal errors that almost destroyed America 
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Atheism  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal  |The Fountainhead  |Capitalism  | There were a few exceptions to the rule that a philosopher must be a professor. Ayn Rand comes to mind. A self-taught Russian immigrant, she would gain a substantial following in the 1960s and 1970s, especially among college students (much to the chagrin of their philosophy professors). Unfortunately, Rand, too, was essentially a materialist who accepted the Enlightenment view of human nature and made autonomous Reason into the equivalent of a deity, capable of solving all human problems. Rand’s “unknown ideal” was (what else?) capitalism, to which she sought to supply the philosophical foundation she maintains capitalism never had. Eventually, though, one had to notice that the perfect capitalist heroes of her novels, such as Howard Roark of The Fountainhead (1943) or John Galt and Hank Rearden in Atlas Shrugged (1957), simply have no counterparts in real life.  

• Four part process leading to sustainable development 
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the root of the “Free Trade” process and the fuel for PPPs between international corporations and government, thereby creating an “elite” class of “connected” businesses – or what Ayn Rand called “the power of pull.” Success in the PPP world is not based on quality of product and service, but on who you know in high places.  

• • Where’s the hope in 2009? 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | Having grown up under Communism in Soviet Russia, author Ayn Rand gained insights into the destructiveness of socialism. Her classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, describes economic carnage caused by big government run amok. Although Rand foresaw our making the same politically expedient mistakes, America’s politicians remain hell bent on committing the very acts of economic lunacy that Rand parodied in 1957.  

• • When rule breakers become rule makers 
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Capitalism  | Ayn Rand once clearly restated an intrinsic reality, “…it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals --that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government --that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."  

• • Signs of the times: Global economics 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | If you can’t accept Bible wisdom regarding global governance and world socialism, then turn your attention to Ayn Rand. Having grown up under communism in Soviet Russia, Rand gained invaluable insights into the perils of socialism and totalitarianism. Her 1957, 1,000-page novel, Atlas Shrugged, foresaw our nation’s making the same politically expedient mistakes under big government run amok. Reading like today’s newspaper, Rand’s classic work issues timely warning that—when profits, wealth and creativity are denigrated—they can’t help but disappear, leaving everyone the poorer.  

• That crazy Frenchman 
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Altruism  | The emotional doctrine of otherism (altruism) forms the justification for every kind of usurpation. It is not a Christian doctrine as was claimed by writer, Ayn Rand, and by many other writers.  

• • Atlas and Prometheus 
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Atlas Shrugged  | In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, “men of the mind” – the innovators and technologists who improve and maintain our civilization – become so disgusted with socialism and elitism that they quit. The mythical Atlas, who carries the world on his back, shrugged. Ayn Rand erred, however, in that she misunderstood the depth of love that true scientists, engineers, and technologists have for their work. In the decades since Ayn Rand wrote this classic novel, socialism in the United States has steadily risen and freedom has greatly diminished – especially for technologists. Oppressive government taxation, regulation, and litigation have reached levels that Ayn Rand could only dimly have imagined.  

• At the root of education reform 
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Leonard Peikoff  | In his book, Ominous Parallels, Leonard Peikoff, protégé of Ayn Rand, spoke of the education system of Germany during Hitler’s rise to power and how that system produced violent children; how that system produced the men who went on to become Hitler’s feared Gestapo and SS, men capable of inflicting grossly inhumane and violent behavior on others. The men who produced that system of education then came to the United States.