• • A Traveler's Thoughts 
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Atlas Shrugged  | The threat of economic calamity looms. The left has not yet reaped what they have been sowing. Let the bitter harvest come with their dear Obama as President. Then no way can they blame it on Mitt Romney, or even George Bush. They will likely claim we were simply we not worthy of them, as did Atlas Shrugged character Ivy Starnes after the failure of the Twentieth Century Motor Co. experiment with Marxism: “....the plan was a noble ideal, but human nature was not good enough for it.”      View blog reactions

• A Blind Eye toward Athens 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  | President Obama, in his Osawatomie, Kansas speech, spoke of free enterprise without government interference, saying, “It doesn’t work. It has never worked.” The preceding examples refute that comment. Actually, free enterprise has never been tried without some interference, but anywhere it comes close, it works. The residents of prosperous Asian economies like Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Singapore would agree. Even China found what happens when people are permitted to have the fruits of their own labors. A long list of thinkers and economists would disagree with the president: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Murray N. Rothbard, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Ayn Rand, and many more.      View blog reactions

• • Obama’s magic hat 
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Atlas Shrugged  | The utopian dreams of the far left are incompatible with reality. These dreams are nothing more than fantasy. Fantasies can only be brought about by magic, not wishful thinking. In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, John Galt describes the mystics' belief in wishing: “...in their non-material, non-profit world, they travel from planet to planet at the cost of a wish. If an honest person asks them: ‘How?' - they answer with righteous scorn that a ‘how' is the concept of vulgar realists; the concept of superior spirits is ‘Somehow.' On this earth restricted by matter and profit, rewards are achieved by thought; in a world set free of such restrictions rewards are achieved by wishing.”      View blog reactions