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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; democracy</title>
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		<title>Abrogation of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat tortuously, the State Department has congratulated the victory of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s referendum to revoke term limits on his rule as a victory for participatory democracy, while faintly recommending a new respect for multiparty pluralism. Consider for a moment if &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>The West as Nuclear Proliferator</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Three Banks to Rule the World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/three-banks-to-rule-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the global financial turmoil look to be three American &#8216;superbanks&#8217;: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The institutions have all grown to occupy such a predominant position in the marketplace, that all three recently &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/three-banks-to-rule-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The 2048 Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been president-elect for exactly one day and James Carville is already arguing for an inevitable Democratic majority for the next 40 years. Imagine predicting Jim&#8217;s claim to fame, the 1992 election, from the vantage of 1952, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/the-2048-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Against Galt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of  the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Income Tax Becoming Too Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer and fewer people are paying income tax and even less will be with either candidates tax plan. I don&#8217;t think this would be such a problem if we didn&#8217;t have such high spending, growing entitlements, and if so many &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Heroes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day for indignity. Just when I&#8217;d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poneco Parties in Chile</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/14/poneco-parties-in-chile/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/14/poneco-parties-in-chile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1988]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a teenage sexual revolution underway in Chile, that is animated by the emergence of a rebellious new generation of kids born after the 1988 referendum and democratic transition. A generation with no memory of the moral strictures of a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/14/poneco-parties-in-chile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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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>Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Ian Murchison &#124; website) The nationalization of Fannie &#38; Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the &#8220;free market.&#8221; However, Sunder Katwala at &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Palin Hysteria Expands, Degenerates</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/#comments</comments>
		<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>Going to Tbilisi?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian units are on the move again in Georgian territory, apparently in violation of the truce agreement. One Russian soldier in a large convoy shouted an ominous flirtation to a press photographer outside Gori, hopefully in jest or lust: &#8220;Come &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili has a Future</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night Joshua argued that Saakashvili, having quite obviously failed to recapture his renegade territories, is certain to be finished one way or the other. Either overthrown by the Russian army, or by the Georgian people at the ballot box. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thunder in the Place of the Winds</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Isuru Senevi &#124; site And so ends Mauritania&#8217;s brief experiment with constitutional democracy. The AFP has a source in the new ruling junta who says there will be new elections in two months. We shall see. Alex Ely notes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/thunder-in-the-place-of-the-winds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Swordsmen into Social Workers</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Muqtada al-Sadr is getting out of the mayhem &#38; militia business in favor of social services. Not strictly as a Hamas style prop for publicity and popularity either. Iraq may well become that strangest of political landscapes where &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/swordsmen-into-social-workers/">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>
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		<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>Assasination and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/18/assasination-and-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bayesian Heresy tipped me to a profile of economist Ben Olken, who has published a couple of papers on the effect of political leaders on economic and political development: Olken wonders whether economic devel­opment and the path to democratization &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/18/assasination-and-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don&#8217;t know what it is not to have it.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/you-grew-up-in-freedom-and-you-can-spit-on-freedom-because-you-dont-know-what-it-is-not-to-have-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your viewing pleasure, watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali effortlessly dismantle the typical leftist tropes thrown at her in an interview with Avi Lewis (Naomi Klein&#8217;s husband). The quote serving as the title comes across as venomously pointed when read, but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/you-grew-up-in-freedom-and-you-can-spit-on-freedom-because-you-dont-know-what-it-is-not-to-have-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Result Possible</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/2462/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want the best possible result? Sure; don&#8217;t we all? When I play bridge, we frequently say: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t get the best possible result. But &#8211; I got the best result possible.&#8221; Sometimes, the best possible result is impossible &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/2462/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Goldfarb denounced Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives as &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; today, for their open criticism of John McCain&#8217;s record and views. He labels it the result of a psychological condition he and other McCain apologists call &#8220;McCain Derangement Syndrome&#8221;: I &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/i-have-no-mouth-yet-i-must-scream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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