[Enduring Freedom]

Atlas Shrugged, penned by brilliant Ayn Rand, presaged over a half century ago exactly the kind of worthless Socialist parasites presently feeding on the productive capitalist American hosts.

The next time someone disses Rand, remember she is mortal enemy number one to the Communists.

If you've not read her work, you don't understand the world.

Warning to jacka@@es who flame this post - I'm on you like an A10 Warthog on an Iraqi.

[David Isaac]

You have to be pretty dedicated to read Ayn Rand. She can make a one-minute argument in to an hour-long sermon. You are definitely right about her being the arch-enemy of the socialists, however. She and Friedrich Hayak should be required reading in every school in any country which claims to operate according to democratic (how I wish certain people had not soiled that word) principles.

But if you will notice, our schools tend to teach rather the opposite. Our most dangerous enemies are not outside the country.

[Gorzaloon]

Warning to jacka@@es who flame this post - I'm on you like an A10 Warthog on an Iraqi.

No flames from here!

(Roark, Architect.)

[stinkypew]

I don't understand Ayn Rand, and it's not for lack of trying. (I've read both Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead.)

And here is why: She was an atheist, and no objective, absolute morals can be ordained by Science alone. It seems to me that she never advanced a cogent response to one of her own characters, Cuffy Meigs, who said: "In the long run, we're all dead."

Plus, reliance on Science alone must lead to the conclusion that all actions are simply the result of cause and effect, that is, chemistry and physics, in the end. There is no free will under Science. It is pure determinism. If a person has no free will, then there can be no morals at all.

[Hatteras]

"Warning to jacka@@es who flame this post - I'm on you like an A10 Warthog on an Iraqi."

If you were confident about what you post there should be no need to make threats...