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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; elections</title>
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		<title>An Appointment with Defeat</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/an-appointment-with-defeat/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/an-appointment-with-defeat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blagojevich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gubernatorial appointment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incumbents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nate Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[united states senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blagojevich&#8217;s senate appointment might not be as valuable to a political career as he seemed to believe. Nate Silver takes a systematic look at senators who were appointed to fill vacant seats by governors over the last fifty years, and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/an-appointment-with-defeat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Party Personality Disorder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob barr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catch-22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John B. Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Heller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kinky Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarian Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[michael badnarik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[voter behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself complaining to a Libertarian colleague of mine today (note the capital &#8216;L&#8217;), about the deplorable political consensus that has emerged on the bailout strategy for economic resuscitation. The bipartisan policy is a ghastly trifecta of the ineffective, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Barren Politics</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/barren-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[draft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Perot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viral video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vacuous Draft Bloomberg movement has made a viral video. I have no idea how this is supposed to make me support him. I&#8217;m not sure they even know why they support him. No policy proposals, no platform, no definable &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/barren-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Peevish Pastor</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankrupt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberation theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSNBC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huckabee was interviewed on MSNBC on the day Fred Thompson withdrew. The liberation theologist took the opportunity to further ridicule and attack Fred and his supporters for supposedly injuring his campaign in South Carolina. Smart move Huck, really should endear &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Transformational Dream</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/the-transformational-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Robinson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton&#8217;s recent emergence as Hillary&#8217;s principal anti-Obama attack dog has left a lot of people somewhat uncomfortable. We&#8217;re not generally accustomed to seeing this sort of bare knuckled political brawling from a former president (all the effort seems to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/the-transformational-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting for Fredheads</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/hunting-for-fredheads/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/hunting-for-fredheads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mittosphere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Mittosphere&#8221;? Ugh.]]></description>
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		<title>Unions in Retreat</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/unions-in-retreat/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/unions-in-retreat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culinary Workers Union]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Goldfarb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Goldfarb thinks that the unexpected Hillary win in Nevada despite the Culinary Workers Union endorsement of Obama, could represent the beginning of a substantial diminution in union political power: &#8220;If they can&#8217;t even affect the votes of their members &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/unions-in-retreat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Give Reagan a Rest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/give-reagan-a-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/give-reagan-a-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fausta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fausta is fed up with the pundit&#8217;s question &#8220;who will be the next Reagan?&#8221; She mocks the impulse by asking &#8220;who will be the next Abraham Lincoln?&#8221; The genuine &#8220;next Reagan&#8221; of course wouldn&#8217;t be looking to the past at &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/give-reagan-a-rest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reagan and the Democrats</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/reagan-and-the-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/reagan-and-the-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary and Edwards are slamming Obama after he heaped praise on Ronald Reagan &#8211;something that may not play well with the leftist base of their party, but was doubtlessly well received by the general electorate. One wonders if Obama shouldn&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/reagan-and-the-democrats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy&#8217;s Sunshiny Winter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/rudys-sunshiny-winter/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/rudys-sunshiny-winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point it&#8217;s worth asking: Is Rudy Giuliani running a presidential campaign, or a Florida vacation? Of course, not that I&#8217;d blame him for the later.]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Like a Spirit</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/almost-like-a-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotair has video of Chris Matthews talking about Barack Obama on the Tonight Show, in which he tosses objectivity to the wind and replaces it with a kind of turbid political idolatry. He suggests to us that he wouldn&#8217;t be &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/almost-like-a-spirit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the Kenyan Crisis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/notes-on-the-kenyan-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan Justice Minister Martha Karua has charged Barack Obama&#8217;s cousin, ODM leader Raila Odinga, with ethnic cleansing. Tourist bookings to Kenya have suffered 90 percent cancellations. Kenyan blogger Girl in the Meadow wonders why the election dispute is being settled &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/17/notes-on-the-kenyan-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unity08 2.0</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/unity08-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Unity08? It was &#8220;open source politics,&#8221; the internet-based third party with tech buzzwords in place of rhetoric. They captured press attention for awhile by talking a lot about &#8220;revolutionizing&#8221; the election with a web-based nominating convention and other silly &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/unity08-20/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Own Constitution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of Mike Huckabee arguing that &#8220;what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.&#8221; Hmm. Is that really in accord with anyone&#8217;s notion of Founders intent? I know committed social conservatives who &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg Would Lose in NYC</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/bloomberg-would-lose-in-nyc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to SurveyUSA polling, Bloomberg would do best in NYC in a three-cornered presidential race against Obama and Huckabee. Even then though he only manages 28%. Via: Politicalwire]]></description>
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		<title>Liberation Theology Takes a Hit</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/liberation-theology-takes-a-hit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some splendid news for those of us not delighted by the prospect of a liberation theologist takeover of the Republican Party. Rasmussen is reporting their new South Carolina numbers and Mike Huckabee has lost five points and Fred Thompson &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/liberation-theology-takes-a-hit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing Things</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/hearing-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the booing of John McCain at the Prosperity Summit in Livonia, Michigan (video clip at Ian Schwartz). Now I can&#8217;t be entirely certain, but it sure sounds like a woman in the audience exclaims: &#8220;Happy Birthday Warsaw!&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/hearing-things/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>M. President</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/m-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tyra Banks Show emailed Michelle Malkin with some quotes from Tyra&#8217;s interview with Hillary Clinton (to be broadcast Friday). Hill proposes a nationwide reality show to determine what to call the First Husband&#8230;with dancing! And you thought the 90s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/m-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell Of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/the-smell-of-socialism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/the-smell-of-socialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does socialism smell like? At first blush I can&#8217;t be much more specific than &#8220;pungent and bad.&#8221; Luckily the enterprising Catalan Socialist Party has brewed up a concoction as a campaign stunt that promises to answer this confounding quandary: &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/the-smell-of-socialism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gloves Off on Huckabee?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/gloves-off-on-huckabee/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/gloves-off-on-huckabee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee outlined his vision for a social conservative / &#8220;populist&#8221; takeover of the GOP to an Evangelical audience in Michigan. Mark Levin calls it deplorable, DiscerningTexan calls it destructive, and Riehl calls it theocratic. Well, well. It&#8217;s beginning to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/gloves-off-on-huckabee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FDT Suddenly Solvent?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/fdt-suddenly-solvent/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/fdt-suddenly-solvent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT thinks Fred Thompson may be making a comeback. Some Republicans seem to be warming to his message that Huckabee&#8217;s statist policies are unwelcome in the GOP. Imagine that.]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Capitalism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/wheres-the-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/wheres-the-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steyn surveys the election in contrast with the replacement of compact discs by MP3s. Observing the swift and dynamic change that characterizes the free market, he rightly mocks the notion of government as an &#8220;agent of change.&#8221; Huckabee, Edwards, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/wheres-the-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Conservative&#8221; Case for Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/a-conservative-case-for-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/a-conservative-case-for-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Daniel Hannan has been getting some email of the &#8220;what the heck is wrong with you?&#8221; variety over his support for Barack Obama. Today he argues that he&#8217;s thrown his support behind the rather vague candidate because of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/a-conservative-case-for-barack-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Turmoil in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/turmoil-in-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/turmoil-in-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s like everyone is drunk over something you can&#8217;t understand.&#8221; While our own seemingly endless election season grinds on (and on), Kenya&#8217;s recently ended, sparking massive instability, rioting and protests: Kenya&#8217;s main opposition party said Friday it plans three days &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/turmoil-in-kenya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>â€œSmall-Government Libertarianâ€</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/07/%e2%80%9csmall-government-libertarian%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have caused some confusion with my previous post, â€œPutting the Question to the Bishop,â€ by an inartful use of the term â€œsmall-government libertarian.â€ The more I think about, the clearer it becomes to me that this term &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/07/%e2%80%9csmall-government-libertarian%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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