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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Americans</title>
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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>Eichmann Endures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, has succeeded in partially replicating Stanley Milgram&#8217;s famous social obedience experiment, whereby test subjects torture strangers with electrical shocks when told to do so. Depressingly, mankind appears to remain as obedient to evil as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Government Still Popular</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new Rasmussen survey 62% of Americans believe encouraging economic growth is more important than reducing income inequality. 51% also say the federal government exerts too much control over our economy as it stands. It would be wise &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/limited-government-still-popular/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Poll</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/palin-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen&#8217;s first Palin poll suggests that while many Americans still need more information to make a judgment, she&#8217;s already made a superior impression to Biden on the day of his selection by Obama. Of enormous significance is the finding that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/palin-poll/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home &amp; Land Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a moment in Mark Steyn&#8217;s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we&#8217;ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/home-land-defense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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