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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; American</title>
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		<title>A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/">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>War of Conquest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days into Russian-declared, universally unrecognized independence (excluding Hamas and Belarus), South Ossetian officials have expressed their desire to be annexed by Russia. The brave new defenders of Russian imperialism on the American Left have thus suddenly found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=3894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(photo: 2 Dogs) Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they&#8217;ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McCain as Sarkozy?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/mccain-as-sarkozy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grover Norquist suggests that public disatisfaction with the Republican party is driven solely by hostility to President Bush. McCain&#8217;s differences with the Bush administration and its supporters thus strengthen his appeal with the county. As Grover puts it: “This is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/mccain-as-sarkozy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bonkers in Berkeley (Again)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/bonkers-in-berkeley-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berkeley City Council has passed several resolutions denouncing the &#8220;barbarity&#8221; of the USMC recruiting office in their rather ridiculous city, as well as encouraging Code Pink to protest it regularly (including giving CP reserved parking in front of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/bonkers-in-berkeley-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Love in a Foreign War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/love-in-a-foreign-war/</link>
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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>The Scale of the American Economy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/the-scale-of-the-american-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/the-scale-of-the-american-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a New Italian Left</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/toward-a-new-italian-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fascinating little article on Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome and the new leading light of the Italian Left. Vetroni has worked to create a more moderate and flexible social democratic political culture in Italy. Modeling his new &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/toward-a-new-italian-left/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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