John Allison, former chairman of bank holding company BB&T Corp. (BBT), admires author Ayn Rand so much that he devised a strategy to spread her laissez-faire principles on U.S. campuses. Allison, working through the BB&T Charitable Foundation, gives schools grants of as much as $2 million if they agree to create a course on capitalism and make Rand’s masterwork, “Atlas Shrugged,” required reading. - this is an excerpt from :THIS article
1 posted on
11/03/2011 7:02:20 PM PDT by
FreeKeys
To: FreeKeys; Dagny&Hank; Logic n' Reason; Night Hides Not; DoctorMichael; ArmyTeach; randita; ...
ping from the Rand fan man
2 posted on
11/03/2011 7:06:44 PM PDT by
FreeKeys
(Anyone who relentlessly crucifies job creators is ABSOLUTELY NOT serious about creating jobs. Period)
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ALSO — Stossel is skewering government busybodies right now, and billionaire co-founder of Paul Mitchell products, John Paul DeJoria, will be on Cavuto at midnight eastern — all on the Fox Business Network (FBN).
4 posted on
11/03/2011 7:11:31 PM PDT by
FreeKeys
("The concept of individual rights is so new...most men have not grasped it fully to this day."-Rand)
To: FreeKeys
6 posted on
11/03/2011 7:38:24 PM PDT by
ken21
To: All
great. more worshipping at the altar of Ayn Rand, Marx's beotch.
Yes, I mean it. Do your freaking homework.
7 posted on
11/03/2011 8:14:23 PM PDT by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: FreeKeys
So is Chairman Allison one of those who have improperly translated Rant’s Galts Gulch, as “Peoples Republic of China”?
Just wondering.
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