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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>
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		<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>Immunizing Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Revenge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/sweet-revenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Left is about to blow a collective gasket at having Barack Obama&#8217;s celeb novelty instantly antiquated and cast aside in favor of Sarah Palin. Lots of posts are appearing all over the web damning not her record, views, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/sweet-revenge/">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>
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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>War of Conquest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days into Russian-declared, universally unrecognized independence (excluding Hamas and Belarus), South Ossetian officials have expressed their desire to be annexed by Russia. The brave new defenders of Russian imperialism on the American Left have thus suddenly found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/">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>The Practicality of Barack</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-practicality-of-barack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point along the way Obama became the pragmatist&#8217;s choice. Hillary used to own that territory when concerns turned to electability, but that&#8217;s all over with now. Perception is as PoliticalBuzz puts it, &#8220;Obama is someone who can rally &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-practicality-of-barack/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What if&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/what-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s persistent rejection of identity politics has K-Lo thinking ambitiously about him as a catalyst for genuine change. Suppose for instance he came out against Affirmative Action? Impossible of course. But without question an African-American man of the Left doing &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/what-if/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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