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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Lee</title>
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		<title>Parsimonious Democrats &amp; Altruistic Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/08/14/parsimonious-democrats-altruistic-republicans/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/08/14/parsimonious-democrats-altruistic-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(FNC via HotAir) The latest Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll on health care reform has an interesting finding buried midway through it. Respondents who expressed support for the Democratic plan were asked for their reasons. Interestingly, the  most obviously altruistic motive &#8211;that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/08/14/parsimonious-democrats-altruistic-republicans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Have National Politics Urbanized?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us not living in the concentrated sprawl of the coastal and Midwestern metropoli, it is often extremely perplexing how urban Democratic mayors in places like Chicago and Philadelphia can compile lengthy and embarrassing records of incompetent and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Permission for Resistance</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/the-permission-for-resistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief except of a talk at the 92nd Street Y between Salman Rushdie and Irshad Manji, discussing the possibility of reform against extremism in the Islamic faith. Rushdie draws a fine parallel with the experience of the Western left during &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/the-permission-for-resistance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Crackpots War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/when-crackpots-war/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/when-crackpots-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happened into a video on YouTube alleging that Ronpaul is actually a &#8220;luciferian&#8221; member of the dastardly and super-secret Illuminati / Freemason / Roman Catholic / CFR world conspiracy. Many Ronpaulists of course support Paul because they believe him to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/when-crackpots-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abrogation of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat tortuously, the State Department has congratulated the victory of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s referendum to revoke term limits on his rule as a victory for participatory democracy, while faintly recommending a new respect for multiparty pluralism. Consider for a moment if &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Back Welfare, Please</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 11.6 million unemployed persons in the United States today. Meanwhile, the current estimate of the total cost of the spending package passed to alleviate this distress is $827 billion.  President Obama &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bleh, Sullivan.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was thinking that Andrew Sullivan must have hit some sort of moral and intellectual bottom by now, I read his retrospective on neoconservatism. It turns out the philosophy was actually a vast Zionist conspiracy: The closer you &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rejecting Hamas</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of good news from earlier. As you may have seen, reports have been swirling about a plan by Obama to open direct talks with Hamas. Those reports are evidently groundless, as a statement from Brooke Anderson was &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abuse and Confession</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m certainly not in disagreement that maintaining a ban on torture techniques in military interrogations should be an objective of the incoming Obama administration, Joe Klein&#8217;s pitch for it in his latest column takes us somewhere far beyond the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re in an American recession when British observers start reflecting on the inevitability of American decline, and volunteering their allegedly privileged perspective gained from the fall of the British Empire (Mark Steyn, as always, excepted). So it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Calendar Girl</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/28/calendar-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Sarah Palin calendar has become the top selling office product on Amazon. Don&#8217;t bother trying to order, they&#8217;re already sold out.]]></description>
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		<title>Against Poodle</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/against-poodle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Count me among those who think it&#8217;s damned ridiculous for the president of the United States to have a poodle for a pet. While Bush&#8217;s Scottish Terrier&#8217;s personality was entertaining, who can forget Putin&#8217;s words to Bush when he introduced &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/against-poodle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Miller&#8217;s Geostrategic Theory</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he&#8217;d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/the-new-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaunch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steven Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Lee relaunches his fine student political site The New Republicans.]]></description>
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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning Obama on Blagojevich</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/questioning-obama-on-blagojevich/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/questioning-obama-on-blagojevich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypothetically imagining he had the power to subpoena the president-elect, Michael Isikoff identifies the top five questions the public requires answers to relative to Mr. Obama&#8217;s knowledge of, or involvement with, Governor Blagojevich&#8217;s criminal misconduct.]]></description>
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		<title>Eichmann Endures</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, has succeeded in partially replicating Stanley Milgram&#8217;s famous social obedience experiment, whereby test subjects torture strangers with electrical shocks when told to do so. Depressingly, mankind appears to remain as obedient to evil as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Fascism Happens</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/how-fascism-happens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All it really takes to get you to ignore the concentration camps right in front you of your eyes and turn you into a robot, is to say &#8220;hey, look at this.&#8221; That certainly wasn&#8217;t the purpose of this video, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/how-fascism-happens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Words in Congress</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/19/words-in-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past sixty days, Harry Reid has been the most vocal person in the congressional record. The top two words he has used are &#8220;Republican&#8221; and &#8220;Republicans.&#8221; Republican Jeff Sessions has been the second most vocal person, using the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/19/words-in-congress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>John Elway for Senate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Obama tapping Ken Salazar for the Interior Department, rumor has it conservative John Elway may step forward to run for his Senate seat in Colorado. This rumor &#8211;similar to one for Mike Ditka in Illinois&#8211; has come and gone &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/john-elway-for-senate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping Ship</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/jumping-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The naval nerds at Information Dissemination are unimpressed with Juan Garcia, Obama&#8217;s pick for Navy Secretary. They had been hoping for some substantial change in policy and strategic direction, and consider the relatively obscure Mr. Garcia a vote for the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/jumping-ship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Penalty of Vision</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/16/penalty-of-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the finer moments from Carl Sagan&#8217;s old Cosmos series, the persecution of Kepler.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Order a Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/16/how-to-order-a-hitchens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(image: Rational Response Squad) Here&#8217;s a tip for the uninitiated: When you order a whiskey in a hip bar, request it &#8220;Whiskey, Hitchens.&#8221; If you&#8217;re already slightly sloshed, you might merely say &#8220;Hitch me.&#8221; What is a Hitchens? It&#8217;s not &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/16/how-to-order-a-hitchens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Abolition of Marriage</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/16/the-abolition-of-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having failed to legalize gay marriage almost everywhere by democratic means, a proposed new approach by its advocates is to revoke marriage rights for heterosexuals, in a kind of retaliatory equalization. In effect, the idea is to abolish the legal &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/16/the-abolition-of-marriage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amsterdam&#8217;s Fading Red Light</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/15/amsterdams-fading-red-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social libertarians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a blow to social libertarians, the prodigal country of Holland is finally taking steps to scrap legal prostitution and drug sales, citing widespred social decay and crime.]]></description>
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		<title>Blagojevich&#8217;s Football</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/blagojevichs-football/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/blagojevichs-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blagojevich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairbrush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obsession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Blagojevich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in no doubt that Rod Blagojevich was a troubled and exceedingly peculiar man. These past few days have seen a flood of revealing details from aides and Democratic Party insiders which cast even his sanity into question (potentially &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/blagojevichs-football/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Leftblogger Veto</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/a-leftblogger-veto/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/a-leftblogger-veto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brennan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the John Brennan experience, Obama is having trouble finding qualified intelligence experts who are ideologically acceptable to liberal bloggers. Pleased to see we have our security priorities in the right place.]]></description>
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		<title>Bail or Consequences</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/13/bail-or-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/13/bail-or-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abstractions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consequences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph E. Stiglitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revolutionary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph E. Stiglitz says bail out the poor, not the rich. It&#8217;s like a parlor game for abstractions to decide who can be the noblest thief. How about no one bails anyone out, and we all sustain the material consequences &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/13/bail-or-consequences/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Silent Man</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/the-silent-man/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/the-silent-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rahm Emmanuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scandal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Rahm Emmanuel falls, it&#8217;s &#8220;what did the president-elect know, and when did he know it&#8221; time. You cannot get any closer to Obama. An ugly business. ]]></description>
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