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		<title>Twitter as a Story Telling Medium</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/30/twitter-as-a-story-telling-medium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is the social media website that allows users to share updates on their life with others who choose to follow their updates. It&#8217;s proved useful for friends to quickly keep in touch, politicians to keep constituents updated on their &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/30/twitter-as-a-story-telling-medium/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where have the strong women gone?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/22/where-have-the-strong-women-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now read my first real &#8220;vampire&#8221; book. Okay, so it&#8217;s a werewolf book with vampires, but I&#8217;m told this is *the* genre these days. Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn. Not bad, not bad in a lot &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/22/where-have-the-strong-women-gone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Huckabee: Enemy of Libertarian Republicans Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/huckabee-enemy-of-libertarian-republicans-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee&#8217;s new book is coming out, and in it he takes some pretty heavy shots at libertarian and economic conservatives who don&#8217;t share his populist big government views. The real threat to the Republican Party is something we saw &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/huckabee-enemy-of-libertarian-republicans-everywhere/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Against Galt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of  the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire &amp; Invasion, by Paddy Docherty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book was written entirely in the passive voice. The passive voice was used to avoid assigning causation or personhood to various events. As a result, we learn that places were invaded, people were slaughtered, armies were founded, but no &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/the-khyber-pass-a-history-of-empire-invasion-by-paddy-docherty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russia’s Long Descent Into Madness: Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, and Putin’s Labyrinth by Steve LeVine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last ten years, Russia has emerged from one of the unfortunate victims of the 1998 financial crisis to become a strong, almost fearsomely assertive country. Much of this is thanks to Vladimir Putin, a man who has won &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/03/russia%e2%80%99s-long-descent-into-madness-putin%e2%80%99s-russia-by-anna-politkovskaya-and-putin%e2%80%99s-labyrinth-by-steve-levine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Lakoff: Neo-Syndicalist</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I read with fascination William Saletan&#8217;s review of the new offering from George Lakoff, &#8220;The Political Mind,&#8221; and was struck by the remarkable similarities between it and the revolutionary syndicalism espoused during the prior fin de siècle. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough and Tumble Adventures of a Scotch Drinking, Skirt Chasing, Dictator Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror, by Craig Murray</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/22/dirty-diplomacy-the-rough-and-tumble-adventures-of-a-scotch-drinking-skirt-chasing-dictator-busting-and-thoroughly-unrepentant-ambassador-stuck-on-the-frontline-of-the-war-against-terror-by-craig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted to Registan.net. This is quite possibly the worst-named book ever. The UK version was the very simple, stark, and compelling Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador&#8217;s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror. Why did that not &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/22/dirty-diplomacy-the-rough-and-tumble-adventures-of-a-scotch-drinking-skirt-chasing-dictator-busting-and-thoroughly-unrepentant-ambassador-stuck-on-the-frontline-of-the-war-against-terror-by-craig/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>One Day at a Time</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/20/one-day-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One of the most depressing, pessimistic, negative and plain old unappealing books I have ever read is Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s Nickel and Dimed. Ms. Ehrenreich goes &#8220;undercover&#8221; as an entry level worker, and reports how incredibly difficult it is for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/20/one-day-at-a-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bookends to War: Afghanistan by Louis Dupree, and Taliban by Ahmed Rashid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted to Registan.net It is difficult to say anything useful about either of these books: after all, both have been read and discussed to death—Dupree&#8217;s because, 35 years after its publication, it remains the definitive source on Afghanistan, and Rashid&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/18/bookends-to-war-afghanistan-by-louis-dupree-and-taliban-by-ahmed-rashid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And Who Is GK Chesterson???</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Lance, I have a hankering to learn who this man is he is quoting&#8230; http://www.chesterton.org/discover/who.html This absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, who laughed at his own jokes and amused children at birthday parties by catching buns in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/and-who-is-gk-chesterson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Monthly Book Roundup</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/25/monthly-book-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new monthly feature here at A Second Hand Conjecture, is going to be a roundup of what we&#8217;ve been reading during the past month. Feel free to discuss, or ask questions about any of the books. Joshua: Right now &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/25/monthly-book-roundup/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Love in a Foreign War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: trish brunner &#124; blog) This morning I stumbled into the story from last year of James and Lena Ahearn. James, the American officer, Lena the Iraqi woman who was apparently the first war bride in Iraq in 2003. They&#8217;d &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/love-in-a-foreign-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization: By Don Boudreaux</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Cross posted at Risk and Return) Cafe Hayek fans take note, it is finally out. Short review from Tyler Cowen: This is the best popular book explaining the benefits of international trade. Imagine Bastiat for 2008, or a Cajun updating &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/globalization-by-don-boudreaux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moment of Truth in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent post by Michael Yon giving a recap of his years in Iraq, and especially this last year of the &#8220;Surge.&#8221; Some very important news, Michael is publishing a book this spring. You can pre-order it here which has &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/09/moment-of-truth-in-iraq/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cities of Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not touched on the subject of the often hostile turn our culture has taken towards men, especially when it comes to their relationships with children. It is not that I don&#8217;t agree that that is a concern, in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/16/cities-of-men/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunter of Beer: RIP- Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grief knows no bounds, Michael Jackson, aka &#8220;The Beer Hunter&#8221; has passed away: “He was simply the best beer writer we’ve ever known,” said Tim Hampson, chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers. “He told wonderful stories about &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/06/the-hunter-of-beerrip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>News Brief, Worry Wort Edition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/18/news-brief-worry-wort-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 21:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted at The Conjecturer Defense Part 2 of Danger Room&#8217;s interview with John Robb. I bought his book last night, and I&#8217;ll be posting a review of it here when I&#8217;m done. John Robb has some damned interesting ideas, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/18/news-brief-worry-wort-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>News Brief, Need Your Needs Edition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/16/news-brief-need-your-needs-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon In laying out his thoroughly convincing case against widespread instant adaptation of the MRAP, the Robot Economist says something I thought profound: &#8220;One thing that I have noticed about about U.S. operations in Iraq &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/16/news-brief-need-your-needs-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil Came on Horseback by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 12:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Sam Ouandja &#124; Nicolas Rost &#124; UNHCR via HDPT) The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace (Public Affairs, 230 pages, $16.47) Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/07/the-devil-came-on-horseback-by-brian-steidle-and-gretchen-steidle-wallace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>News Brief, I Would Have Posted This Yesterday But Was At The Hospital Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 23:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon Tony Snow declared the milblogging scandal overreported, but then admitted he didn&#8217;t know what he was talking about. See for yourself if such a major change in OPSEC rules was over-done. Lockheed Martin builds &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/05/news-brief-i-would-have-posted-this-yesterday-but-was-at-the-hospital-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Kite Runner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to second this recommendation from Greg Mankiw: Well, actually listening too, as I drive between my home and the office: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Highly recommended. I want to go further and suggest you listen to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/03/13/the-kite-runner/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>American Civil War led to the Creation of the Suez Canal &#8211; Who Knew?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, some historians obviously did. Michael J Totten interviews Michael Oren, author of the book &#8220;Power, Faith, and Fantasy&#8221;, &#8220;a sweeping history of Americaâ€™s involvement in the Middle East from 1776 to the present.&#8221; So, read the whole interview, it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/02/20/american-civil-war-led-to-the-creation-of-the-sinai-canal-who-knew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adding fuel to the Climate Change fire</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/02/15/adding-fuel-to-the-climate-change-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Poet Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve recently sparked some interesting discussions on climate change and global warming here at ASHC. I&#8217;d like to add a little fuel (biodegradable, earth-friendly fuel, of course) to the fire by recommending this article on Dr. David Orrell&#8217;s new book, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/02/15/adding-fuel-to-the-climate-change-fire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Radicals for Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/02/11/rdicals-for-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends at Laissez Faire we have Brian Doherty&#8217;s first chapter from his new book Radicals for Capitalism. A history of libertarianism in America that I plan on purchasing for myself. An excerpt from the new book RADICALS FOR &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/02/11/rdicals-for-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza and Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/23/dinesh-dsouza-and-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t addressed D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s new book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, though Robby asked me to long before it was even out. I have meant to, but at this point it seems a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/23/dinesh-dsouza-and-responsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Diamond Age</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/22/the-diamond-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of pumped, I should be, but I am less excited by the thought of Neal Stephenson&#8217;s The Diamond Age coming to the Sci-fi channel. However, having George Clooney behind it means maybe it will get the funding it deserves &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/22/the-diamond-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Song of Fire and Ice</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/22/song-of-fire-and-ice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip: Stephen Bainbridge It is being turned into an HBO series! The series will begin with the 1996 first book, &#8220;A Game of Thrones,&#8221; and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/01/22/song-of-fire-and-ice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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