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		<title>Ethnostatism Fails</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement of &#8220;ethnic studies&#8221; curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called &#8220;multiculturalist,&#8221; but since they tend to be monoethnic &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Concealed Carry School</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/concealed-carry-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small Texas School district approved a plan to allow teachers to carry concealed handguns on school grounds last October and will see its first school year open later this month with that plan in effect. As far as I &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/concealed-carry-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of Choice</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/freedom-of-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do so many deny parents the ability to chose a superior education for their child? The straight talk on education. “Parents ask only for schools that are safe, teachers who are competent, and diplomas that open doors of opportunity,” &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/freedom-of-choice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Class Burdens</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/middle-class-burdens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Don Boudreaux, I found this &#8220;Inconvenient Truth&#8221; about the struggles of the middle class. As readers here know, I have long been a bear on housing, but as always those who want their hands on our wallet can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/middle-class-burdens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Teach Your Children Well</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/teach-your-children-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Wall Street Journal reader: &#8220;The courageous thing for Congress to do would be to get rid of student-loan subsidies entirely. Then watch tuitions tumble towards &#8216;the affordable&#8217; as academe realizes nobody&#8217;s throwing money at it any more.&#8221; &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/25/teach-your-children-well/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>8 year old suspended for sniffing marker</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/15/8-year-old-suspended-for-sniffing-marker/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/15/8-year-old-suspended-for-sniffing-marker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story. Eathan shyly shook his head &#8220;no&#8221; when a reporter asked if he knew about &#8220;huffing.&#8221; He does now.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching violence&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/16/teaching-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was wiping blood off my 15 year old daughter&#8217;s face.    It ran from her nose down over her mouth and chin and I hoped that I wasn&#8217;t too rough and hurting her while I did it, but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/16/teaching-violence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Competition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/29/competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competition plays a large role in much of my life. As a tournament bridge player, competition is the name of the game. The better you do, the more you rate to win. The more you do to learn, improve your &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/29/competition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic News for Leftists</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to free markets, capitalism and freedom in general, the world is getting wealthier. The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Sickening</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/the-sickening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cuban medical office with a sign reading &#8220;No prescriptions available.&#8221; Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba]. News of Fidel Castro&#8217;s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram&#8217;s has to be one of the most arrogant &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/the-sickening/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Am I anti-Intellectual or&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/17/am-i-anti-intellectual-or/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/17/am-i-anti-intellectual-or/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;am I just not impressed by YOU? Jules Crittenden responds to a column by Susan Jacoby The Dumbing of America. She concludes&#8230; It is past time for a serious national discussion about whether, as a nation, we truly value intellect &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/17/am-i-anti-intellectual-or/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom can&#8217;t exist without trusting the untrustworthy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/14/freedom-cant-exist-without-trusting-the-untrustworthy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/14/freedom-cant-exist-without-trusting-the-untrustworthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extension of the commentary from this post from MichaelW. Have you heard the truism that a person is smart, but people are dumb? On the one hand it&#8217;s profoundly true. On the other hand we fail to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/14/freedom-cant-exist-without-trusting-the-untrustworthy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Argument Against Public Education</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/an-argument-against-public-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Glenn Reynolds, Wired posts an article describing the fight to include evolution in the science curriculum for students in Florida and Texas: Charles Darwin was born 199 years ago Tuesday, but the debate he ignited about the origins of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/12/an-argument-against-public-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just Imagine</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/just-imagine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Cross posted at Whatif?) George Santayana told us:  &#8220;Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.&#8221; What on earth do you do, though, with those who never learned any history in the first place? A fifth of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/just-imagine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harming Poor Kids</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/harming-poor-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (Cross Posted at Whatif?) The next time one of your liberal associates begins to rail about how conservatives are selfish and don&#8217;t care about the less fortunate among us &#8211; you show them this. Chicago is gearing up for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/harming-poor-kids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Education and Socialization</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/25/education-and-socialization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All four of my children have been homeschooled, and one of the complaints about homeschooling that irritates me the most, is that it is socially damaging. My children have various social strengths and weaknesses, just as kids I knew in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/25/education-and-socialization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Valdosta State Follow-Up</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/valdosta-state-follow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my first post here on A Secondhand Conjecture, I&#8217;m happy to say that the troubles T. Hayden Barnes had seem to have come to a happy conclusion. The student, who was once a &#8220;clear and present danger&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/valdosta-state-follow-up/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A political education</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/a-political-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Your sister thinks Huckabee is great.&#8221; &#8220;Mom,&#8221; I told the phone, exasperated, &#8220;He&#8217;s not even Republican!&#8221; My first participation in politics was a proudly worn &#8220;I (heart) DRNBGR&#8221; button that some son-of-a-Democrat defaced at a high school speech competition. (What &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/a-political-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First Bureaucratic Victim of Post VirginiaTech Environment</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/first-bureaucratic-victim-of-post-vteach-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sophomore at Valdosta State University was expelled after criticizing his university&#8217;s plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university’s president, wrote that he &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/first-bureaucratic-victim-of-post-vteach-environment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Apparently, in France, demand curves do not slope downwards&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/apparently-in-france-demand-curves-do-not-slope-downwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle comments on a piece in The Economist regarding the appalling state of economics education in France and Germany: When the 35 hour work week was proposed, I was talking to someone in the French consulate who did economics &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/apparently-in-france-demand-curves-do-not-slope-downwards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Economic Perspective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/some-economic-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[youtube uJo7GG15kMU] Hat tip: Greg Mankiw]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Resource Returns</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/01/1738/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting this Friday, November 2nd, Free to Choose Media is continuing the work of its inspiration, Milton Friedman, of bringing the benefits of freedom to the people of this world, including its most remote corners. A new documentary, &#8220;The Ultimate &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/01/1738/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yet More Indoctrination</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/01/yet-more-indoctrination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know the left takes its For The ChildrenTM rhetoric seriously. However, I was not aware just how pervasively their anti-capitalism, anti-Bush, anti-war, and anti-military agenda was being pushed on our kids. Nickelodeon is the latest indoctrination arena where a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/01/yet-more-indoctrination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Closed Minded Bigots</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/31/closed-minded-bigots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this post very apt to a situation we&#8217;ve highlighted here on this blog. I&#8217;ve noticed this time and time again, and have shut off even trying to change minds when I encounter this behavior. Best to point it &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/31/closed-minded-bigots/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later &#8212; Indoctrination</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/26/little-rock-central-50-years-later-indoctrination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t ever seen this series before, but I have to admit that I find this stuff pretty damn scary: That&#8217;s just a snippet of what is apparently being taught to our kids of high school age. Not only are &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/26/little-rock-central-50-years-later-indoctrination/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shift Happens</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/23/shift-happens-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes information like this makes me sit back and think &#8220;whoa&#8221; (sounding to much like neo in the matrix.) Not only is this a small world (which we often forget,) but it is becoming an exponentially complex and interconnected one. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/23/shift-happens-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates: Economic Piker</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/18/bill-gates-economic-piker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In inflation adjusted terms Bill Gates isn&#8217;t close to the wealthiest American ever. In fact, he comes in 13th(small pdf) and only about 1/6th as wealthy as numero uno. Don&#8217;t let your kids read the next fact: The average net &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/18/bill-gates-economic-piker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The steady march to totalitarianism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/17/the-steady-march-to-totalitarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chavez begins bending another set of private institutions to his will.]]></description>
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		<title>Huh?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/12/huh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Irvine law school fires him for being too liberal? About a week ago, Erwin Chemerinsky, the well-known constitutional law scholar at Duke, signed a contract to be the inaugural Dean of the new law school at the University of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/12/huh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My stupid state</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/14/my-stupid-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Louisiana, but I can only argue about degree (not that I should) when it comes to what JR Ball has to say in the Baton Rouge Business Report (a truly wonderful publication, one of the nations best): Of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/14/my-stupid-state/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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