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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; government</title>
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		<title>To PAYGO or to NO-PAYGO?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/06/12/to-paygo-or-to-no-paygo/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/06/12/to-paygo-or-to-no-paygo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Pick makes a great point on why the GOP should accept Obama&#8217;s limited Paygo]]></description>
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		<title>US Treasury Refusing Bank Repayments?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/16/us-treasury-refusing-bank-repayments/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/16/us-treasury-refusing-bank-repayments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what&#8217;s claimed in this article in the IBD. This becomes pretty thuggish when you add to the fact that these banks were (allegedly) outright threatened to take the TARP funds in the first place. The reason for all of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/16/us-treasury-refusing-bank-repayments/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Big To Fail</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/10/to-big-to-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/10/to-big-to-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Instapundit, Glenn has been keeping an eye on both the Tax Day Tea Party and the New Way Forward demonstrations. Reading about what the left is doing, I have to think, that if the left thinks banks that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/10/to-big-to-fail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Fires Izzo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/07/obama-fires-izzo/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/07/obama-fires-izzo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;awards Michigan State 18 points.]]></description>
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		<title>This Certainly Explains</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/05/this-certainly-explains/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/05/this-certainly-explains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the Government we have in DC.]]></description>
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		<title>Banning the BCS</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aggie congressman Joe Barton has introduced a bill to abolish the BCS regime and mandate the creation of a playoff system for college football. I quietly place all my hostilities to government intervention in sports into a shoebox for this &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/banning-the-bcs/">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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/#comments</comments>
		<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>Morality of the Bailout</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/morality-of-the-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/morality-of-the-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dinesh D'Souza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Q&#38;A session at the University of the Pacific in October, Dinesh D&#8217;Souza was asked about the moral dimensions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. I don&#8217;t agree entirely with the causality he posits exists between irresponsible consumer behavior &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/morality-of-the-bailout/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flaccid in Mexico City</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of the numerous problems routinely facing residents of Mexico City, things like an astronomical violent crime rate, standstill traffic, urban poverty, collapsing infrastructure, chronic water shortages, claustrophobia-inducing overcrowding and toxic pollution might come to mind. Even aircraft &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/flaccid-in-mexico-city/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Government by Rich and Poor</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/government-by-rich-and-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/government-by-rich-and-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Myrna Bushell, Bideford (UK) town councillor and stripper/phone sex business owner, is resigning her office due to a lack of respect from colleagues. But in parting she also cited the time constraints necessary for local councilpeople, concluding that you &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/06/government-by-rich-and-poor/">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>Social[ism] Programs, Please Take One</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/socialism-programs-please-take-one/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/socialism-programs-please-take-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking his cue from Us Magazine&#8216;s five free issue incentive to dissuade subscribers from canceling over their anti-Palin cover story, TennesseeFree proposes Obama should offer five free personalized social programs to every fleeing voter. I&#8217;d caution the electorate against any &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/socialism-programs-please-take-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Government Still Popular</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/limited-government-still-popular/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/limited-government-still-popular/#comments</comments>
		<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>Uneven Anti-Western Attitudes in Russia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/uneven-anti-western-attitudes-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey finds that public perspectives in Russia are turning sharply anti-Western in matters of international relations. But what&#8217;s particularly interesting about this, is that such sentiments have grown fastest and strongest in Russia&#8217;s most cosmopolitan and urban regions, whereas &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/uneven-anti-western-attitudes-in-russia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Revolt of the Cherubs</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/revolt-of-the-cherubs/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/revolt-of-the-cherubs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dissuasive argument against government healthcare actually.]]></description>
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		<title>Marital Advice from Todd Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/marital-advice-from-todd-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/marital-advice-from-todd-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound recommendation I&#8217;d say: &#8220;I should&#8217;ve asked a few more questions when Sarah joined the PTA. When my wife starts talking about reform, corruption and making government work for the American people, it&#8217;s best to just move out of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/marital-advice-from-todd-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin &#8211; Kuwait Gallery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at ASHC we get an enormous amount of traffic from people looking for Sarah Palin photographs. My friend Jason over on postpolitical says he&#8217;s experiencing the same phenomenon on his blog, and we took to calling it the hunt &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Family in Trouble</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/family-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Daily The single most important building block of any nation is her families. Destroy that and you can easily lay claim to a nation&#8217;s soul. I agree. I think we have failed to maintain the nuclear family and lost &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/family-in-trouble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors from the Necrocracy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/rumors-from-the-necrocracy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/rumors-from-the-necrocracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il as Colonel Sanders by Jonathan Barnbrook (photo: acb &#124; The Null Device) North Korea is already a formal necrocracy (government by the dead), given that Kim Il-sung &#8211;who has been dead since 1994&#8211; remains the titular head &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/rumors-from-the-necrocracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnostatism Fails</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement of &#8220;ethnic studies&#8221; curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called &#8220;multiculturalist,&#8221; but since they tend to be monoethnic &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Concealed Carry School</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/concealed-carry-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small Texas School district approved a plan to allow teachers to carry concealed handguns on school grounds last October and will see its first school year open later this month with that plan in effect. As far as I &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/concealed-carry-school/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke has a solution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM: Dr Ben Bernanke Central Bank of United States of America 01-658-555-1234 TO: CEO Lagos, Nigeria Dear Friend: I have been requested by the regional members Federal Reserve of the USA to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Shift to the Center</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/the-shift-to-the-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a sociopolitical threshold of some kind has been passed in Iraq, as the full range of separatist groups are now seeking power and legitimacy through representation in the central government, rather than in armed conflict.]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Olympic Designer to Boycott Olympics</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/chinas-olympic-designer-to-boycott-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese architectural designer Ai Weiwei, who conceived the now famous &#8220;Bird&#8217;s Nest&#8221; Olympic stadium design for the Beijing games, will not attend the opening ceremonies in protest against Chinese dictatorship. He has some powerful words of explanation in the Guardian &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/chinas-olympic-designer-to-boycott-olympics/">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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		<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>To Have and Withhold</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/to-have-and-withhold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Women’s Committee of the Yemeni government is finally calling for an end to child brides. Their proposal is to reset the minimum marriage age at 18. The official legal age for marriage is 15 in Yemen, but loopholes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/to-have-and-withhold/">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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		<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>Colombia&#8217;s Capitalist Communes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/colombias-capitalist-communes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colombian flower farms (photo: Mike Freedman-Schnapp) Colombia&#8217;s flower farm workers have for some time been benefiting mightily from industrial support communities, which practice heavy nongovernmental social investment in workforce collectives. Many of the workers in these communities outside Bogota and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/colombias-capitalist-communes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Dawn of Food Zoning</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/31/the-dawn-of-food-zoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles City Council has banned the construction of fast food restaurants in low income areas. Perhaps I&#8217;ve lost the ability to be shocked by the abuses of paternalistic government, because my immediate reaction was &#8220;figures.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Restructure State to Save It</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/30/restructure-state-to-save-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Registan.net, your one-stop shop for news and analysis of going on in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Thirteen months ago, I noted the problems caused by the U.S. State Department having dramatically different divisions than the military COCOMs. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/30/restructure-state-to-save-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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