Sounds like a wannabe Leninist trying desparately to make a name for itself... by denegrating the truth.

Add to this, coming from a site called "Daily Athiesm"... Yeah, my money is on a socialist "Born-Again Athiest" - they who believe that only their beliefs are right, and everyone should believe (or wouuld it be non-believe??) just like they do.

Bleah. Sheeple socialists following Sheeple Marxists down the primrose path of doom by espousing blatant nonsense as truth. Why is it I'm not surprised?

That had to be the biggest bit of claptrap I've been exposed to in a long time. What more needs to be said.

You can see my efforts on behalf of Rand and science. What a merry chase of fallacies they run. : )

I've bowed out now that the cowardly mods there are refusing to put up any of my answers. Nice way to make it look as if the cat got my tongue. Anyway, it all got repetitive. Pedantic negativity is not a formula for accuracy.

Food for thought: An empty barrel makes the most noise.

It seems safe to say that AS has sold between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 copies and possibly more. Why squander limited time on moral defectives like this fellow?

What a steaming pile.

I put up a lovley little post on facebook page about this...moron. Sounds to me like he really loves that Obama flavored koolaid.

Not surprisingly, this was on an atheist blog. Those are a rich source of attacks on Rand and on libertarians. That might seem strange at first, but if you dig into most of them you'll find that their primary focus is left-wing collectivism.

The linked article mentioned PZ Myers. His Pharyngula blog is a prime example of what I'm talking about.

That's depressing.

I think it makes sense businesses move to less free States. It's easier for them to get special favors from the government. Of course they'll move to a state where they don't have to build their own roads, or train their own employees, and on top of it receive tax payer subsidies just for being there. It's screwing over the individuals. It's also unsustainable in the long run. Those states will tax the populace so much that they won't be able to afford what the state is producing. Plus the companies know they can charge higher prices in states where the individual has more money, giving the company incentive to export the majority of what it produces.

Of course business moves to the less free area, their going to milk it and move on.

No. That’s a bad idea and I’ll give you good reasons.

1. The last time you sent me out into the cyber-heavens to mount a crusade the little minions followed me back.

2. Your husband is quite capable of speaking for himself. I’ve read that with my own eyes.

3. 8.5k does not meet credibility level on Facebook. Smile. They are barely likable. If they ever cross the ten-thousand fan level, then, let’s talk. But for now...you probably got a bunch of activist atheists who are bored to death on the days when he wants to attack Ayn Rand.
I know a group on Facebook-- the GOP stoppers that have tens of thousands of fans and most ‘rational’ people have never heard of them. (They do come up with some side-splitting memes.)

How is your husband involved? You can PM me if you prefer not to go into detail on the open board.

Adam Lee's critique of Ayn's novel is akin to the treatment that the Fair tax gets from the media and the power hungry politicians. When Joe Six Pack figures it out what the Fair Tax can do for him America will become Galt's Gulch.

How nice of the author to own the site and moderate it, too. You think ANY contrary opinions will be posted? If any "plusaf" comments show up, please let me know.

If you censor all disagreement, it's easy to make it look like "the consensus" is supporting your side.

How sick.

Adam Lee is making a common mistake: that of confusing correlation with causation. "The answer, as much as Rand and her acolytes might not want to hear it, is that most businesses actually prefer to settle where the government provides services."

Actually, the reason that businesses sprout in CA and NY is that there are people there...and few businessmen spring full-fledged from the womb. Generally, we work for someone else for a while and then start our own business. There are more people in CA (where I am), hence more business begin here.

And why stay? Because we are already here, have employees, have bought offices, have friends. There has to be a compelling reason to move; taxation and regulation is giving us a reason to do so. But one needs to move to a place that is enough better to justify the business disruption - and no state is insulated from the new federal regulations.

People - and businesses - are moving out of CA and NY. (People as a whole are moving South in the US.) The 'services the government provides' that aid a business are rather basic; all states have them. The need to support a large non-working population is a side effect of the fluctuations in job opportunities (and of course they vote themselves an income).

So, business do not deliberately choose a start-up site where there is a heavy government burden. Businesses start where there are more jobs, which attract more people, who start more businesses...and then do not want to move away from their friends and homes.

Jan