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		<title>Goodbye Bogey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted from my Wife and I&#8217;s blog: 
Last night we had to say goodbye to the best dog in the world. Bogey was 15 years old and was suffering from arthritis and hip dysplasia. The pain just became too much for him and his ability to get up or down by himself was almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s make the Hoosier State, the 42nd vote!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s much going on in the Hoosier state.
We have 4 good candidates stepping up to take on Evan Bayh.
The primaries in Indiana are on May 4th this year.
Let&#8217;s make a list of questions we want to hear our future Senator to answer.
More to come&#8230;

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		<title>Animated Unemployment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very cool animated Graphic showing the change in unemployment over the last two years.
Click Image for Animation



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		<title>The Warrior Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think this rocks, so here it is in honor of Veteran&#8217;s Day.   

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		<title>Taking a Closer Look at Unemployment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Employment as measured by the &#8220;establishment survey,&#8221; was down by 190,000; and Many feel it is an improvement that we are not falling as fast.
Well, let us take a moment to look under the hood of these numbers. First, while the establishment survey was down 190k,  the number of unemployed soared by 558,000, to 15.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;So how is that working out for you, Mr President?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Friend Bruce McQuain picks up on a story I noticed yesterday. Rather than rehash it, I&#8217;ll let him lay it out:
Greg Mankiw reminds us of this bit of fantasy:
What we are not doing — what I have no interest in doing — is running GM. GM will be run by a private board of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/11/08/7145/</link>
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		<title>I know, let&#8217;s compare ourselves to Jimmy!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s compare ourselves to other successful Democratic Presidents.
Brilliant I say! BRILLIANT.  
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/03/commemorative-tree-planting-white-house-0


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		<title>What country do we live in again???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope the Chicago way doesn&#8217;t gain wide spread adoption&#8230;

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		<title>If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do tea parties, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and the US Chamber of Commerce have in common?  All are demonized opponents of the Obama administration, and more popular then ever.
&#8220;If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.&#8221;
This seems to be the case, not only for Jedi Knights, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/10/27/if-you-strike-me-down/</link>
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		<title>Not evil, just wrong.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This woman is remarkable.
I&#8217;ve watched the first section of video so far.

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		<title>Brain-dead Conservatism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ann Althouse linked this commentary from the Washington Post yesterday.
“During the glory days of the conservative movement, from its ascent in the 1960s and ’70s to its success in Ronald Reagan’s era, there was a balance between the intellectuals, such as Buckley and Milton Friedman, and the activists, such as Phyllis Schlafly and Paul Weyrich, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/10/03/brain-dead-conservatism/</link>
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		<title>Uncommon insight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Saddest Lede on the Internet Today.
Says Ric Locke on his new blog.   And what was the lede?     &#8220;Americans believe that the normal state of things is not-violence.&#8221;
Do you suppose that’s true? That that’s why we have such absurdities as people climbing in zoo cages to cuddle the animals? It would explain a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/09/28/uncommon-insight/</link>
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		<title>Where do I donate to the &#8220;citizen journalist&#8221; legal fund???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACORN wants to play hardball.  Smack it back at them&#8230;  But that takes resources.

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		<title>Creep Factor 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, what do you do when adults stop singing your praises&#8230;

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		<title>BOHICA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats really do want to screw the little people&#8230;
I guess they think if you own a home, you must be rich.

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		<title>How Uncouth!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boob Czar.

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		<title>Bogus Civility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally someone said what I&#8217;ve been thinking about this constant call to civility:
Have we transformed into so brittle a citizenry that we are unable to handle a raucous debate over the future of the country? If things were quiet, subdued and &#8220;civil&#8221; in America today, as Pelosi surely wishes, it would only be proof that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About those violent town hall protests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Never mind&#8230;

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		<title>Water Under the Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Joe Wilson apologized for the outbreak during President Obama&#8217;s latest cheer leading session for health care/insurance reform.
While his behavior was inappropriate, he did have a point that Obama was not quite truthful with the facts.  Otherwise there wouldn&#8217;t have been a flurry of activity to bar illegal immigrants from getting coverage under any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Rum Revolt&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just has me speechless&#8230; (or wordless&#8230;)
    Under the agreement, London-based Diageo PLC will receive tax credits and other benefits worth $2.7 billion over 30 years, including the entire $165-million cost of building a state-of-the-art distillery on the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory.
&#8230;
    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/09/01/time-for-a-rum-revolt/</link>
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		<title>Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nothing could go wrong with that idea&#8230;  2 questions: will a 12 guage slug take them down, and will they taste like chicken??

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		<title>Parsimonious Democrats &amp; Altruistic Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
(FNC via HotAir)
The latest Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll on health care reform has an interesting finding buried midway through it. Respondents who expressed support for the Democratic plan were asked for their reasons. Interestingly, the  most obviously altruistic motive &#8211;that the reforms would expand health insurance coverage for children and the poor&#8211; was most popular among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/08/14/parsimonious-democrats-altruistic-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Do the poor have a &#8220;right&#8221; to free health care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;right&#8221; to free health care  is the right to own the labor of other people without their consent.
Any time you&#8217;ve got a right TO something like that you take the rights of other people to their own selves and their own freedom away.
The libertarian idea, as I understand it,  is that your rights end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/08/13/do-the-poor-have-a-right-to-free-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Photo Evidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mob of paid Republican operatives identified.
h/t Instapundit

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		<title>Obama poster explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Treacher.   Do I have to say more?

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		<title>Sarah and Todd sizzle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Other McCain at Hot Air:
&#8220;Now, here’s my idea: I told my source to give my phone number to . . . uh, two sources in Wasilla, Alaska, if you get my drift. Because I’ve made my living as a professional journalist since 1986, I’m not really so good at this newfangled making-stuff-up business, but I’d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary association and Freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot, lately, about how the police over-step when they arrest people for what amounts to &#8220;being rude to police officers.&#8221;   I&#8217;ve been hearing a whole lot about how our freedoms are infringed if we can&#8217;t even speak our minds just because the other person is a cop or else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/07/31/voluntary-association-and-freedom/</link>
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		<title>How the GOP Should Win the Climate Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If only more people listened to Jon Henke.

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		<title>To PAYGO or to NO-PAYGO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Pick makes a great point on why the GOP should accept Obama&#8217;s limited Paygo


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		<title>Big Banks Got Played</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Daring Trade Has Wall Street Seething from the Wall Street Journal. Amherst, a small Austin firm found a small loophole in the system. To use a crude metaphor, they sold the big banks hurrican insurance and then made sure the hurrican never came.
The burned banks include J.P. Morgan Chase &#38; Co., Royal Bank of [...]]]></description>
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