• • Sen. Ron Johnson and the American “tipping point” 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Going Galt  | I think this is the part of the economic and cultural breakdown that Rand got wrong, but Johnson has right. If you shout “Let it burn!” and make a big production out of escaping the clutches of the redistributive State, as Rand’s rebellious “makers” do – one of them quite literally burning his life’s work to the ground on his way out – you make yourself a target. You give the dying socialist State another group of “enemies” to rally against.  

• Qui est John Galt? 
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Atlas Shrugged  | In completely unexpected news, the fourth richest man in the world, the richest man in France, Bernard Arnault, is reportedly applying for a Belgian passport. Arnault emigrated to the United States during the last Socialist presidency in 1981. For some unexplained reason, the business magnate hasn’t picked our country this time around.  

• What is a “job?” 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | Caroline May at the Daily Caller had an interesting piece about union efforts to organize the unemployed on Wednesday. It seems the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has created an organization called the Union of Unemployed Activists (UCubed), which claims “it now has more than 100,000 jobless activists in their ranks.”No, I’m not making this up, and I don’t think Caroline May is, either.  If she is making this up, she’s really good at it, and the producers of all future Atlas Shrugged movies should hire her as a screenwriter immediately.