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Today's rant isn't about tax rates, free enterprise, “don't tread on me” or Ayn Rand's positivist philosophy. It's about paralytic dissenters, Lilliputian naysayers and the corrosion wrought by the knee-jerk instinct of voters to anoint oblivious ward heelers whose only discernable platform is abject surrender to the debilitating defilements of urban decay management.
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Jennifer Recchio didn’t waste any time getting a start on her summer reading for school. It took the 17-year-old senior-to-be at Floyd Central High School exactly two days to finish her summer reading — the Ayn Rand book, “Fountainhead.” “It was a really good book,” said Recchio of the assigned reading for her senior Advanced Placement English class.