• • Republican compassion 
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Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Individualism  | Now that we are on the precipice of the abolishment of Medicare, we can sit back and reminisce how gullible we were.Our Nation’s seniors are being abandoned in their twilight years, and the disabled and afflicted will have to fend for themselves. This is the premium we pay for ignorance. For those of you that believe in the romantic notion of rugged individualism and keep government out of my way, just remember that Howard Roark and John Galt were ficticious. To be quite honest about it, so is your doctrine!  

• • Shrink the government 
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Atlas Shrugged  | Social Security is paying out more than it is taking in and that will become a much larger problem as the baby boomers retire or go Galt. Medicare is going broke; Medicaid will bankrupt most state governments within the next ten years. [....] Editor’s note: “Go Galt” is a reference to a character in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.” The phrase usually refers to productive members of society cutting back on work in response to increased taxes to support those who are not productive.  

• Collective Soul outlasts ‘one-hit’ history 
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The Fountainhead  | The band, whose name was inspired by Ayn Rand's novel “The Fountainhead,” gained fame in 1993 with the song “Shine” and went on to sell 10 million albums.  

• • The good work of government 
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Capitalism  | The lessons learned from the 19th century robber barons are sufficient to reject [the] naive Ayn Randian notion that the “businessman would never willfully harm his customers and thereby hurt his own future business prospects.” Tell that to the tainted peanut butter “businessman.”  

• • • ‘January 16th’ is corny, yet entertaining, courtroom circus 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Night of January 16th  |The Fountainhead  | Ayn Rand's courtroom drama "Night of January 16th," which hails from the 1930s, is like an old movie that manages to be fantastically entertaining despite being totally corny.  

• • Fall theater preview - Comedy, drama, musicals coming to local stages 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Night of January 16th  | "The Night of January 16th," which will play in October and November, is a courtroom drama by Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged."  

• • Star News doesn’t get it 
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Atlas Shrugged  | If the editorial staff of the Star News were to read Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged”, they would have a much better understanding of "tea parties".  

• • Mountain tale told in poet’s words 
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Altruism  | Review of the novel Serena, by Ron Rash.
Rash's finest creation [...] is Serena, an Ayn Rand heroine made flesh: A woman with no past before 1918 (when the Spanish flu epidemic wiped out her family), convinced that "altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failings," she lives by a strict Darwinian code - and she, of course, is the fittest.