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Entries by Mark Olmsted from 05/2010

Immigration and the American Decline in Empathy

| Posted 05.07.2010 | Politics
Read More: Unionization, Narco-State, Arizona Immigration Law, War on Drugs, Immigration Debate, Mexico, Politics News

Stop demonizing people for making rational economic choices. You would do no differently -- just ask your great-grandparents.

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People and Property: What Rand Really Wants

| Posted 05.21.2010 | Politics
Read More: Human Rights, Rand Paul, Rush Limbaugh, Ayn Rand, Rand Paul Rachel Maddow, Property Rights, Politics News

The Rand (Paul or Ayn) philosophy, by putting private property rights at the same level of human rights, equates the status of things with the status of human beings. But people are more important than things.

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How the Old Racism Became the New Fearism

| Posted 05.25.2010 | Politics
Read More: Rand Paul, Housing Bubble, Mexico, Michael Steel, Illegal Immigration, Change, Gun Rights, Fear, Racism, Right Wing, Immigration, Obama, Tea Party, Clarence Thomas, Fearism, Politics News

Hate is so last century; it has been replaced by fear. Not fear of dark people themselves, but fear of what their ascendancy represents for white people.

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