Reply #4: I've heard Mark speak and read his book. He's always right, and relevant.

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And clear-headed. He's not a knee-jerk librul. His eyes are open to everything.

He also thinks long-term. This little 8 year republican/12th century experiment has gone down in flames. The so-called Moral Majority has either withered on the vine or slithered back under whatever rock it hides under. Either way, anti-pluralism (government sponsored narrow-mindedness) has been sent back to where it belongs: The margins of society.

Mark is reminding us of the real human costs here at home.

He leaves out the fact that deployed soldier suicides are up of late, and also leaves out all of the Iraqi casualties. But that's to get his voice out there. He remembers them in other pieces.

We'd all be better off if we could keep Mark's voice around as often as Rush's or Bill O'Reilley's.