Fifty years ago Atlas Shrugged was a fiction of what might happen.  According to the linked editorial it's not so fictional anymore.   David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motion picture -- it is the only classic novel of recent decades that was never made into a movie. "We don't ne...

Dear Editor: Every year I am disheartened to see the anniversary of our country’s birth relegated to just another day of the month by so many people who call it the “4th of July” instead of “Independence Day”. I see it on adverts and in the local papers. No one calls Christmas “December 25th” because those that celebrate it as a religious holiday know that the cause for celebration is in the name. By calling Independence Day, “Independen...