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Blog Entries by Paul Stoller from 05/2011

Longing for Competence in a Land Where Nothing Works

| Posted 05.06.2011 | Politics
Read More: Government, President Ronald Reagan, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Osama Bin Laden President Obama, Donald Trump, Marvin Harris, Terroism, Seth Myers, US Congress, Sarah Palin, Politics News

The stunning capture and death of Osama bin Laden belies the widespread and ever-insistent notion that nothing works in America.

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Debt-Limit Chicken

| Posted 05.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debt Ceiling, Debt Limit, Geithner Debt Limit, Debt, Debt Limit Increase, Debt Limit Default, Debt Ceiling Vote, Obama Debt Ceiling, Bernanke Debt Limit, Politics News

Even though the possibility of a federal government default is an issue with potentially catastrophic consequences, GOP leaders in the House and the Senate seem to be playing politics with the debt ceiling.

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Enraptured Politics

| Posted 05.26.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Left Behind Book Series, Millenarian Movements, The Market, Judgment Day, Harold Camping, Democracy, Tim LaHay, Cargo Cults, New Guinea, Ancestors, Ghost Dance, Reason, Blind Faith, Political System, End Times, Doomsday, Medicare, Politics News

If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are "primitive" or "far-fetched," think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End Times Rapture.

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