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I recently purchased the booklet called Glossary of Objectivist Definitions , which includes definitions by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, and H...

The movie reviews will contain spoilers. Last night I watched Roman Holiday , starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. It was Audrey Hepbur...

My favorite duet from my favorite opera. Sull'aria , from The Marriage of Figaro , by Mozart. The ladies are Kiri Te Kanawa and Ileana...

I confess I am unable to watch the Democratic National Convention. I am not a glutton for punishment. I know exactly the kind of anti-Ameri...

Some remnants of Romanticism may still be found in the popular media---but in such a mangled, disfigured form that they achieve the opposite...

Till There Was You There were bells on the hill But I never heard them ringing, No, I never heard them at all Till there was you. There were...

Merry Christmas in Love Lyrics by Marva Jan Marrow, music by Tony Renis, performed by Rene Olstead Things that tremble tingle like a bubble ...

Over the Fourth of July weekend the Sci Fi channel was having one of their periodic Twilight Zone marathons. One of the episodes I watched ...

The Stimulus: In a post ( http://www.icahnreport.com/report/2008/06/corporate-democ.html ) to his blog on June 18, Carl Icahn wrote about ...

In the late '60s and early '70s, America was embroiled in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. Quoting Ayn Rand's paean to Apollo ...

Our dependence on Middle East oil is a common object of ridicule. The critics of this dependence are generally the same people who caused th...

Just a few pictures of the current group of Red Wings on the ice, plus one of Vlad for auld lang syne . . . Zetterberg: Filppula: Datsyuk:...

For the fourth time in the last eleven years, the Detroit Red Wings have won the Stanley Cup, awarded to the champion of the National Hockey...

In her movie diary for 1926, Ayn Rand gave the Cecil B. De Mille silent movie The Volga Boatman a rating of 5+, the highest rating on her s...

Silent movies seem to be an acquired taste. I usually have a hard time watching them. They seem hopelessly archaic compared to modern movies...

This review contains some spoilers. I recently finished watching a wonderful Korean television drama called Dae Jang Geum , aka Jewel in the...

Palestinian terrorists have been launching rockets into Israel on a daily basis for months. Occasionally, Israel responds by air assaults on...

Barack Obama has said that if he is elected President, he will pay a visit to Cuba to talk with its current ruler, Raul Castro. Castro, of c...

The Founding Fathers bequeathed to us a glorious Republic based on the inalienable rights of Man. We squandered that bequest long ago. How d...

Everyone needs philosophy, was Ayn Rand's answer to that question, which she gave in an address to the graduating class at West Point in...

An example of the benevolent spirit of ragtime music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGyQmKmIMp4 I generally prefer solo piano ragtime, but ...

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way...

Howard Roark, intransigent architect hero of Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead , is one of the most inspiring creations in the history ...

With a population of some three million, colonial America produced more Statesmen than modern America can produce with her 300 million. How ...

The title of my blog refers to the song from The Sound of Music . I admire the song for its dedication to freedom in the face of advancing t...