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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Separate Cause on Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In commenting on Barack Obama&#8217;s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/bomb-philosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/11 Denial comedic interlude of the day. I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re approaching a existential bomb philosophy moment with Andrew Kornkven and those of similar sentiment. One in which absolutely everything becomes a manufactured illusion to justify hidden purposes. A cynic might &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/bomb-philosophy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Palin Hysteria Expands, Degenerates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to sense that anti-Palin hysteria is building toward a collective psychological meltdown of truly epic proportions on the Democratic side of our political divide. Today, Democratic consultant Dan Conley angrily pushed us a little further to the brink &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dissonance Control in Political Paranoia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/dissonance-control-in-political-paranoia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=3639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(photo: companyink) After writing about the Ronpaulist fear mongering of Jordan Page, and then reading Lance&#8217;s splendid post on the latest contheorist pandering of Glenn Greenwald, a common insight has reoccurred to me: the absurd amount of cognitive dissonance conditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/dissonance-control-in-political-paranoia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Else Fascism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/16/what-else-fascism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s editorial sensationalism, and then there&#8217;s Keith Olbermann. Consider Mr. Olbermann on Bush recently: &#8220;If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/16/what-else-fascism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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