Good morning tpatter4,
You should post a thread inquiring of our resident authors of their experiences with print material.
Lipstick$ has on rare occasion commented here. I share e-mails with her a couple of times a year. She has commented on my Producer of the Week page from several weeks back. If you reply to one of her comments there, perhaps she will respond.
We have our own Commonwealths here from time to time, but this forum allows us greater freedom to combat them. :)
Regards,
O.A.

OA,
I will have to pursue the print option. Anyone have experience with the best way to go with print? Success stories? Horror stories? Thanks, OA--I appreciate your interest in Whisper Independence. Have you heard from Lipstick on this site? I haven't seen her. I miss hearing from her, but not Commonwealth, heh, heh!

Hello tpatter4,
Long time no hear! Best of success with your book. I have put it on my list. Do you have any plans for ink on paper? I prefer it that way and I also like to display my conquests proudly on my ever expanding bookshelves. We have some great authors here. Besides my usual parade of dry subject matter, their books (of a much more entertaining nature) keep me out of trouble and well read. :)
Always good to hear from you.
Regards,
O.A.

Hello OA
I appreciated the opportunity to comment on your post as it is a serious issue in our country. Too many do not have an insight as to what is happening within our military today.
Kindred spirits,
Mona Lisa

Greetings Thoritsu,
Indeed. The message needs no religious context. Natural rights are all that need be respected.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Hello Notperfect,
Thank you for the kind words. It is my pleasure.
Regards,
O.A.

But they say we are just doing this for the children! Only winking at the same time. Whats with the winking, hand over one eye, making a pyramid when finishing their grand performance? Symbols!

Hello monalisaturberville1957,
Thank you for the thoughtful commentary. I am pleased you enjoyed the article.
Regards,
O.A.

This is wonderfully written work. Thank you.
While we do not share responsibility, we each are responsible. Charity begins at home. Why if your house is not seen after how can you help another profitably, It cannot work. The balance must be there or all will fail. Any thing done for another, given to another, must be so done with gladness of heart. Neither can prosper, the giver nor taker.
During the time when Rand wrote AS, she saw the government doing exactly the way she wrote it. She left Russia to start a new life in America only to find that the America she imagined did not exist. She saw this great country being taken apart bill by bill, law by law. The book she so lovingly wrote was one of desperation resulting from disappointment. While the book is a work of fiction the meaning is not.
Our great Nation is holding on by a thread that is itself becoming weak under pressure, without the nutrition necessary to sustain her. No government whom devises means of legal plunder to rule over others will prosper. It is impossible.

Where can you show that OA or Snezzy said they would not help? I didn't see that AT ALL. They said they'd help through donations to organizations that would deliver aid to 'the destitute' and seem to encourage you, me and everyone else to do the same. I do donate to many charities and organizations, and I try to keep a few $20 bills in my glove compartment to hand out to streetcorner beggars, unemployed, etc.

But I do NOT like anyone who comes along telling me to donate or how much or forcing me to do so.

We have become a nation of people that have not been afforded to the opportunity to grow up. Our children are to be brought up in the ways they should follow.

Guns are only incidentally for hunting. They are first and foremost, to protect us from those who would harm us, including and especially the government. Forbidding harsh words...I fear we've become too soft, in too many ways.

As a retired naval person I have a deep insight concerning what has happening with our military. Just before the decision was made to retire high ranking persons were more like baby sitters than soldiers of war. The standard operational procedure is no longer as it was. The military has become weakened by bleeding heart bureaucrats. Instructors cannot scream, cuss or toughen new enlistees. By far they are to be coddled. I would not want to depend upon the majority to have my back let alone defend my country. While there are those that are strong mentally and physically, there are far too many that run crying every time they get their feelings hurt. The truth within our military is far more frightening than civilians know. I have more faith in the every day gun owner and hunter. Our country has the largest private army in the world. Why do you think they are after our guns? It has nothing to do with the violence told via the news, no, it is all about fear that we should unite and fight. There are over 1 million gun owners aside from the military. It is they the bleeding hearts in our government, whom have weakened our military on purpose. Why else would a government create a manual of training for military personal that" forbids" officers and chiefs to force those under them to follow the rules should it be done with harsh words. I am serious that is exactly how it is in this new military that is supposed to protect US! This new military we have can throw fits like a child and know that nothing can be done to them. Nay I will call my fellow hunter, gun owner before I would look to the new military to protect me.

Meanwhile, our national defense is being put on the back burner. These are frightening times, indeed. The producers/innovators are being penalized (taxes, regulations), the citizens are being penalized (Obama"care" tax/penalty). Freedom is not a given. We have to defend it daily.

The reason it is being taught is because of the vast number of people that are poor. No one has to be poor. I am firm believer that you can do what ever you set your mind too. We are not all born with a silver spoon in our mouths. There are far more whom have made wealth that did not come from money than there are that did. We are in a country that has so invested our money in far too many freebees that only enable the receiver to remain a receiver instead of a contributor.

Great message! We need more arguments like this reminding people that the government is simply forcing people to comply with group-think.

However, it will be a a much stronger message when without biblical scripture in the background, which is completely unrelated, and a majority of the same well-meaning socialists standing to be swayed view it as similar, unyielding intrusion into their social freedoms.

Right, charity is not meant to be forced at gunpoint. It is then theft (against the "giver") and no longer charity. The poor are not so because there are those who are rich. It's not a zero-sum game, but this is what is being taught.

Hi, OA. I haven't been on the site since the "old days" (AS1 site). Nice to see you're still here. We'll keep fightin' the fight! Unfortunately, I'm between jobs (got laid off, so I'm working all over the place as an adjunct), which keeps me from visiting much.

I'm excited for the new Atlas Shrugged movie, and I found my own way to contribute to the cause of liberty:

Feel free to sample my new ebook, Whisper Independence.
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You are so right O.A. My daughter took her 3 children out of public school to home school. The rate of their learning is mind boggling. They love the fact that they are taught things that really matter. My grandson asked me one day why I always carry my weapon on me while I was reading the Constitution and studying online. I showed him what I was reading and read the 2nd amendment to him. He is only 9 years old and has a 4th grade reading advancement. He thought that was the coolest thing.Not trying to be biased, but Bastiat and AS should be taught in any institution of higher learning and many others. It's to bad that Common Core has reared it's ugly head. I have told all of my children beware of what is down the road. Finally after the years of talking I think it has set in. Their approval rating of what B.H.O. and company Congress and the Senate not withstanding nil. Thank you and keep helping me as I learn.

That was a true complement. Thank you. After the revolution, we'll be part of the solution.

Thank's Herb7734,
We all have our strengths and weaknesses. It is good to roll with the punches. :)
Regards,
O.A.

My pleasure, blarman.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Regards,
O.A.

Nice article. Thanks.