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		<title>What passes for moral clarity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/10/what-passes-for-moral-clarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating a human embryo for the purpose of experimentation and destruction = Good. Creating a  human embryo for the purpose of creating a born human person = Bad. How does it work that way? Also, some argue that Obama&#8217;s statements &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/10/what-passes-for-moral-clarity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s War on Tomboys</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/malaysias-war-on-tomboys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia&#8217;s National Fatwa Council issued a warning to human rights groups yesterday that should they criticize its efforts to repress &#8220;tomboy behaviour&#8221; among Malaysian women, it could result in&#8230;further repression. One has to marvel at this sort of thinking. How &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/malaysias-war-on-tomboys/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Linkins is a Crazier Guy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/jason-linkins-is-a-crazier-guy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/jason-linkins-is-a-crazier-guy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Linkins takes exception to my reading his Huffington Post editorial about the silly &#8216;lipstick&#8217; controversy as a suicide fantasy. He protests in his defense that he didn&#8217;t want to shoot himself, he wanted to shoot other people. Wonderful. How &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/jason-linkins-is-a-crazier-guy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ruining Ramadan in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/ruining-ramadan-in-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan always means new soap operas in the Arab world. I learned today it also means not even thinking about masturbation. A small thing to you perhaps, but in a repressive sexual society where the curves of the female figure &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/ruining-ramadan-in-egypt/">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>The Unbearable Deification of Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/06/the-unbearable-deification-of-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of this (unbearably) long campaign season is the rare opportunity to witness deification in process. From Mark Morford, a San Francisco Gate columnist: Is Obama an enlightened being? Spiritual wise ones say: &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/06/the-unbearable-deification-of-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exit Trinity. Exit Church.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/exit-trinity-exit-church/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/exit-trinity-exit-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Mr. Obama has finally quit that ludicrous Chicago institution known as Trinity United Church of Christ. His membership had survived Rev. Wright, but was ultimately done in over the visiting Rev. Michael Pfleger&#8217;s bizarre self-hating white guilt trip, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/31/exit-trinity-exit-church/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wright Stuff</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/the-wright-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had much time to grace the pages of ASHC lately, but I was skimming through Memeorandum and just couldn&#8217;t resist saying something about this little screed: Wright issue will haunt conservative media elite By Roland S. Martin CNN &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/06/the-wright-stuff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Believers</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/beware-the-believers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heh, a response to Richard Dawkins and the unbelievers amongst us. Right or wrong, arrogant condescension does not go unpunished. Hat tip: D.A. Ridgely]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Stay Silent</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/do-not-stay-silent/</link>
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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>Talking points for the modern Muslim</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/talking-points-for-the-modern-muslim/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/talking-points-for-the-modern-muslim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali Eteraz gives his fellow Muslims the rationale for opposing Sharia courts being imported into the west: 14 &#8211; Liberal democracy, as is, is perfectly compatible with Islam You aren’t making your country more Islamic or even earning more reward &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/talking-points-for-the-modern-muslim/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sharia Law Enforced in Texas!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/sharia-law-enforced-in-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, kinda. After the whole row over the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s declaration that Sharia Law in Britain is &#8220;unavoidable&#8220;, Eugene Volokh notes that it has been allowed in some US court, in a way. It seems some parties entered into &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/sharia-law-enforced-in-texas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Muhammad-pedia Controversy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/07/the-muhammad-pedia-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/07/the-muhammad-pedia-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After their success getting the Muhammad cartoons banned, some Muslims have now set their sights on wikipedia. Recently a large group of Muslims have started an email campaign asking wikipedia to remove their images of their holy prophet Muhammad, even &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/07/the-muhammad-pedia-controversy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;First They Came for the Gays&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/first-they-came-for-the-gays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (Cross posted at What if?) My liberal friends think I&#8217;m a conservative. My conservative friends think I&#8217;m a liberal. Frankly &#8211; there is truth in the assessment of both groups. Depending upon the issue, you can honestly label me &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/first-they-came-for-the-gays/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Begun the Scientology War Has</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/begun-the-scientology-war-has/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So making the news today, a group of hackers calling themselves Anonymous, has declared &#8220;war&#8221; on the Church of Scientology. It started with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on CoS and CoS sponsored websites, but moved on today to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/24/begun-the-scientology-war-has/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grinchwald&#8217;s Stocking Stuffer</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/26/grinchwalds-stocking-stuffer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It shouldn&#8217;t surprise me the lengths that Greenwald will go to distort what people say in order to lambaste his enemies, but his Christmas offering really takes the figgy pudding. Mike Huckabee&#8217;s Christmas ad &#8212; like everything Huckabee does &#8212; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/26/grinchwalds-stocking-stuffer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;XMas&#8221; Origins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/26/xmas-origins/</link>
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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>None of your business</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/14/none-of-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ discusses Krauthammer&#8217;s disgust over the Republican Party and its candidates stooping before those demanding a declaration of religious faith to become President. From Krauthammer: I&#8217;d thought that the limits of professed public piety had already been achieved during the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/14/none-of-your-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like other people telling me what to do.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/i-dont-like-other-people-telling-me-what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amen. One of the reasons I abhor communitarianism (and tend to see my political philosophy as the opposite of that) is because it vests communitarian thinkers with the self appointed power to tell me (and others) what to do. Provided, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/i-dont-like-other-people-telling-me-what-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence for a deity?- Updated with Video and a link Bleg!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/16/evidence-for-a-deity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Michael has been talking some smack. He has laid down a challenge. He calls it tits versus snits. His coverage of Reid&#8217;s machinations on the war, versus my attention to Salma&#8217;s breasts. Which is unfair, he has an Instapundit &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/16/evidence-for-a-deity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/15/slippery-slope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess &#8220;man bites dog&#8221; is just too normal nowadays: NEW DELHI &#8211; A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death — &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/15/slippery-slope/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Reavers Arrive Amongst the Children</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/13/the-reavers-arrive-amongst-the-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[59 Schoolchildren Killed in Afghan Blast Aziz Poonawala tells us who we are really talking about: not to contradict Tariq bhai, but these aren&#8217;t even people. They are Reavers, and they will burn in hellfire. More importantly, it behooves us &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/13/the-reavers-arrive-amongst-the-children/">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>Ann Coulter is a Nazi</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/12/ann-coulter-is-a-nazi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least, according to what Michael Savage implied last night, she is the harbinger of nasty things to come, if all righteous people don&#8217;t rhetorically smite her down. So, what is up with Ann Coulter??? PJ Media has a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/12/ann-coulter-is-a-nazi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Culture War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/11/the-real-culture-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t this sound familiar&#8230; Islamist radicals in Pakistan have attempted to destroy an ancient carving of Buddha by drilling holes in the rock and filling them with dynamite. The Buddha, in the Swat district of north-west Pakistan, is thought to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/11/the-real-culture-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism&#8217;s Last Supper</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/09/17/socialisms-last-supper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee over at Postpolitical has some thoughts on the mural below found in Caracas Venezuela: [tags] Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Jesus, religion, Last Supper, Marx, Castro, socialism, communism [/tags]]]></description>
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		<title>China decides to regulate reincarnation</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/23/china-decides-to-regulate-reincarnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of history&#8217;s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/23/china-decides-to-regulate-reincarnation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Farrell vs Kos on Jindal</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/23/henry-farrell-vs-kos-on-jindal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Start with Professor Bainbridge, then read this post by Kos and this post by Henry Farrell of Crooked Timber. Compare and ponder who has more influence in the Democratic Party, Kos and the type of people who launched these attacks &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/08/23/henry-farrell-vs-kos-on-jindal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>News Brief, Our Love to Admire Edition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/07/20/news-brief-our-love-to-admire-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted on The Conjecturer Defense Hans Kristensen, who runs the Strategic Security Blog for FAS, keeps churning out essential reading after essential reading, this time on how Russia is really just playing the same ABM game it played in the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/07/20/news-brief-our-love-to-admire-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Much Ado about Nothing</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/07/12/much-ado-about-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Poet Omar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy oh boy! Were the headlines in the media and blogosphere ever more hyperbolic and littered with ignorance than they were today? Actually, they probably have been, but today&#8217;s gaggle of garbage certainly has to rank up in the top &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/07/12/much-ado-about-nothing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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