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Blog Entries by Mark Olmsted from 07/2011

Stop Making Sense: Obama's Useless Appeals to Reason

| Posted 07.12.2011 | Politics
Read More: . Compromise, Tea Party, F.D.R., Dadt, Reason, Rationality, Alcoholism, Bill Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Addiction, Obama, Congress, Midterms, Republican Party, Spirituality, Politics News

Anyone who has suffered from addiction or is close to someone who has knows how immune to reason the disease is.

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Reagan on a Unicorn: Imagining a Republican Paradise

| Posted 07.18.2011 | Politics
Read More: France, Conservative, Reagan, Europe, Repblicans, Utopia, Liberal, German, Healthcare, Wealth, Wealth Distribution, Economy, Politics News

A utopia only for the rich is no utopia at all. Americans have to decide whether they are going to continue to chase after an unobtainable mirage, or choose to construct a society where the vast majority have the same chance at a happy and prosperous life as the lucky few.

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When Ideology Becomes Pathology

| Posted 07.23.2011 | Politics
Read More: Ideology, Tea Party, Defense, Unemployment, Debt Ceiling, Pathology, George W. Bush, Jobs, Right Wing, Obama, Cancer, Dylan Ratigan, Bill Bradly, Politics News

We all have belief systems -- religious, political, spiritual. Up to a certain point, they provide an indispensable architecture that allows us to op...

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