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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>Deep Political Time</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/deep-political-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When James Hutton, the father of modern geology, took his friend John Playfair to look at some stratified sedimentary rock, and Playfair realized that he was gazing into a chemical abyss recording the passage of hundreds of millions of years, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/deep-political-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Athens into Persepolis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush&#8217;s characterization of capitalism as the &#8220;highway to the American Dream.&#8221; Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Republican Atavism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don&#8217;t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life Under Stalinism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/life-under-stalinism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact of this man on the world is not part of the memory of many today. I&#8217;ll be breaking out a few of his books this week in his memory. A true Giant has passed away. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-rip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Paranoid on Paranoia-Last updated 1:06 CST</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/a-paranoid-on-paranoia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. You could? The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/a-paranoid-on-paranoia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the Second World War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/defending-the-second-world-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it&#8217;s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I&#8217;ll warn &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/defending-the-second-world-war/">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>Ellas Otha Bates, R.I.P.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/ellas-otha-bates-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock &#038; Roll lost one of it&#8217;s brightest and most penetrating stars yesterday, even if one of the least well known. The founder of the jungle beat heard in too many songs to count over the last 50 years succumbed &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/03/ellas-otha-bates-rip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I&#8217;ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/why-the-taliban-cease-fire-wont-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Victims of Communism Day</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/the-victims-of-communism-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 05:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us remember what May Day has really represented RJ Rummell gives us the toll of The Red Plague: As you can see, the total mid-estimate is about 110,286,000, an incredible total. It is around 65 percent of all democide &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/the-victims-of-communism-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patriots Day!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/patriots-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Franks honors the story of how the fight for our Independence began on April 19th, 1775. McQ ponders how we got to where we are today, drawing from the great T Harry Williams, and Jules Crittenden has a roundup &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/patriots-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/27/william-f-buckley-jr-1925-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember him most for his debates on the Firing Line in the 70&#8242;s. His style, full of respect and grace are what I&#8217;ll remember him by. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTE4NGRlOGM1NmYxYjdmNjk1MjliOTE2MTYxOWZkZjc= I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/27/william-f-buckley-jr-1925-2008/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Stay Silent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please read this, and then pass it on and post it yourself. We cannot stay silent.]]></description>
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		<title>To Understand Them, You Must Know Them</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/19/to-understand-them-you-must-know-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Ron Paul&#8217;s more disturbing and radical views are emerging, especially how closely he has associated himself with the Mises Institute, it might behoove those of us who consider ourselves on the libertarian side of things to more closely examine &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/19/to-understand-them-you-must-know-them/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps we&#8217;re turning into Victorians</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: What I Learned About the World from Reading Historical Romances. I learned that sometimes people get *more* uptight over time rather than less. Victorians, according to custom and any number of novels, were concerned with propriety above all. Certain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Visit the People&#8217;s Paradise</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/visit-the-peoples-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communist documents promoting North Korea, which were seized from Cuban personnel during the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Not your ordinary tourist brochures. Click to enlarge: photo: Department of Defense]]></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>Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: &#8220;Globalization implies subjugation of the world &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Terrible Human Toll</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-terrible-human-toll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of excruciating misery during wartime, few events can compare with what befell Napoleon&#8217;s troops during his campaign in Russia. From Strange Maps we see the suffering and tragedy in graphic statistical form. (click image to enlarge) “The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/the-terrible-human-toll/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism Primer</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/capitalism-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Bookwork Room comes this 1948 classic &#8220;Fun and Facts about American Business.&#8221; It&#8217;s a cartoon short that portrays the birth of an entrepreneur, and how bringing his idea to fruition through hard work pays off not just for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/capitalism-primer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization: By Don Boudreaux</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/globalization-by-don-boudreaux/</link>
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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>Soviet Disney World Reborn</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/soviet-disney-world-reborn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the red stars back on the MiGs, criticism of the government illegal and dissident arrests again in fashion, Soviet reversion is all the rage in Russia. Jim Hill revealed a couple of days ago that apparently Disney is in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/soviet-disney-world-reborn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rain for the Ruins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/rain-for-the-ruins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Michael Deeble) With heavy rains flooding Southern Africa and displacing thousands, surely saving graces must be found in parched and dying Swaziland, a country long thirsting for a drop of rain. But somewhat typically, that oppressed country&#8217;s autocrat King &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/12/rain-for-the-ruins/">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>&#8220;XMas&#8221; Origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Henke posts an interesting history lesson concerning the origins of the well-known abbreviation for Christmas: Growing up, I sometimes heard &#8211; in church and from various religious scolds &#8211; that XMas was a secular attempt to &#8220;take Christ out &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/26/xmas-origins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blast From The Fashion Past</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/15/blast-from-the-fashion-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The linked post is a couple of months old, but the thoughts are yours to treasure for a lifetime. Remembering the &#8217;70&#8242;s: Last weekend I put an exhaust fan in the ceiling for my wife&#8217;s grandfather. After a bunch of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/15/blast-from-the-fashion-past/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Repeal Day!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/happy-repeal-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For information on Repeal Day you can visit www.repealday.org: The turn of the twentieth century was a dark time in America. The Women&#8217;s Christian Temperance Union, which had been promoting Prohibition for many years, believed alcohol was the cause of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/happy-repeal-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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