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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Obama</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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		<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>Political Slogan Bad Timing</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/political-slogan-bad-timing/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/political-slogan-bad-timing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris' Page]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad timing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political slogans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After working very hard and soliciting thousands of ideas for a slogan to attack and bring more attention to Rush Limbaugh, the DNC has settled on, “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure”. This slogan seems like especially bad &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/political-slogan-bad-timing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Have National Politics Urbanized?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community outreach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress Detroitification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popoularity.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rasmussen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban concentration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban renewal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us not living in the concentrated sprawl of the coastal and Midwestern metropoli, it is often extremely perplexing how urban Democratic mayors in places like Chicago and Philadelphia can compile lengthy and embarrassing records of incompetent and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What passes for moral clarity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/10/what-passes-for-moral-clarity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/10/what-passes-for-moral-clarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugenics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion and theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synova's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating a human embryo for the purpose of experimentation and destruction = Good. Creating a  human embryo for the purpose of creating a born human person = Bad. How does it work that way? Also, some argue that Obama&#8217;s statements &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/10/what-passes-for-moral-clarity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abrogation of the Soul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/16/abrogation-of-the-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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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>Mr Bad Example</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/29/mr-bad-example/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/29/mr-bad-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t there an energy crisis or something that we all have to worry about? Guess, we can just call him &#8220;Mr Bad Example,&#8221; and be done with it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=2&#038;ref=politics?xid=rss-page The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/29/mr-bad-example/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Today &#8220;Historic?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/20/is-today-historic/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/20/is-today-historic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inauguration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one sense, today is an historic day. We&#8217;ve now sworn in our 44th President, in yet another peaceful transition of the leadership of our government. But it seems to me that the only other way to see this day &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/20/is-today-historic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abuse and Confession</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notes on the war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Klein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m certainly not in disagreement that maintaining a ban on torture techniques in military interrogations should be an objective of the incoming Obama administration, Joe Klein&#8217;s pitch for it in his latest column takes us somewhere far beyond the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/abuse-and-confession/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re in an American recession when British observers start reflecting on the inevitability of American decline, and volunteering their allegedly privileged perspective gained from the fall of the British Empire (Mark Steyn, as always, excepted). So it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning Obama on Blagojevich</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/questioning-obama-on-blagojevich/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/questioning-obama-on-blagojevich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypothetically imagining he had the power to subpoena the president-elect, Michael Isikoff identifies the top five questions the public requires answers to relative to Mr. Obama&#8217;s knowledge of, or involvement with, Governor Blagojevich&#8217;s criminal misconduct.]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping Ship</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/jumping-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/jumping-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The naval nerds at Information Dissemination are unimpressed with Juan Garcia, Obama&#8217;s pick for Navy Secretary. They had been hoping for some substantial change in policy and strategic direction, and consider the relatively obscure Mr. Garcia a vote for the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/17/jumping-ship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Leftblogger Veto</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/a-leftblogger-veto/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/14/a-leftblogger-veto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the John Brennan experience, Obama is having trouble finding qualified intelligence experts who are ideologically acceptable to liberal bloggers. Pleased to see we have our security priorities in the right place.]]></description>
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		<title>Bend [Over] Don&#8217;t Break</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/bend-over-dont-break/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/bend-over-dont-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ on Obama&#8217;s health care &#8220;reforms&#8221;: &#8220;One of our commenters here says since it is inevitable we should try to influence its implementation instead of fighting it. Reminds me a bit about some discredited advice concerning rape.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Memory Hole?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/into-the-memory-hole/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/11/into-the-memory-hole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archival revisionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blagojevich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm. It seems that media reports filed on November 5th explicitly stating that Obama met with Governor Blagojevich to discuss his Senate replacement, are suddenly disappearing from the web.]]></description>
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		<title>Leader of the Opposition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst most elected Republicans are still preoccupied in pledging to work with (or for) the Obama administration, Sarah Palin isn&#8217;t having any of it. This is significant criticism, because it is vitally important that a Republican leader emerges who can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/leader-of-the-opposition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the Means or the End that Matters?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/13/is-it-the-means-or-the-end-that-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michele Catalano writing at Pajamas Media yesterday, defending Obama&#8217;s call for (at one point) mandatory community service,  gets it completely wrong. To backtrack a little bit for those who haven&#8217;t been paying attention the last week or so, at President &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/13/is-it-the-means-or-the-end-that-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Post Election Polling?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/11/post-election-polling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m signed up to recieve emails for Zogby Polls so I too noticed the strange questions a reader at Clayton Cramer&#8217;s blog did. If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to place a 75% excise tax on the sale &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/11/post-election-polling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of the Recession Vacation</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/09/the-joys-of-the-recession-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t complain to me if there aren&#8217;t any new posts on ASHC. I&#8217;m sitting on a beach in Miami and thus completely out of the necessary frame of mind to bitch about Obama and triumph of statism. Now, these other &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/09/the-joys-of-the-recession-vacation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the New Ruling Elite</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/introducing-the-new-ruling-elite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Republic offers a fine if brief overview of the 30 most consequential individuals for the Obama administration. Which reminds me that TNR itself just got a lot more consequential too.]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming Obama for the Market</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress is upset Fred Barnes and Dick Morris are blaming Obama for the post-election declines in the stock market. Armbruster&#8217;s case is a little defensive and misjudged (he cites the New York Times&#8217; opinion, as if that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Change.gov?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/changegov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently we&#8217;re assigning the .gov domain extension used by federal agencies to campaign slogans now. Although, there is a certain literalism to this one I suppose.]]></description>
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		<title>An Immunity to Ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/an-immunity-to-ecstasy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we had an election. For those in the new opposition the outcome was variously enviable, troubling, or contemptible. For the victors it was&#8230;what else, an occasion for gathering an enormous outdoor rally at an urban theatrical stage to chant. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/an-immunity-to-ecstasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>1948 After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting: [W]e are on pace for the worst reaction to an election since Truman won in 1948.  Interestingly, the only times the DJIA has ever declined by more than 1% [are] the day after a presidential election when the Democratic Party won complete control. (Bespoke)]]></description>
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		<title>Our President</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/our-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Obama has made history and been elected president. I didn&#8217;t vote for him nor support him, but I have supported every US president in my lifetime and President Obama will be no different. I am going to disagree with &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/our-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/03/cocktail-politics-rio-rancho-office-space-and-truman-republicans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtains</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds at Cato asks &#8220;How&#8217;s Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?&#8221; Altogether, Mr. Obama is promising at least $4.3 trillion of increased spending and reduced tax revenue from 2009 to 2018 &#8212; roughly an extra $430 billion a year &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/">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>Socialism, Polls, Matt Drudge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard that John McCain has denounced Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8216;spread the wealth&#8217; formulation for tax policy as socialism. It&#8217;s an inflammatory but not unjustified charge, as a good definition for socialism is the equitable distribution of wealth to the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/socialism-polls-matt-drudge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Sure if You&#8217;ve Voted?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/not-sure-if-youve-voted/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/19/not-sure-if-youve-voted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been seeing this amusing banner ad for Obama popping up all over the web. Given the behavior of some of ACORN&#8217;s representatives, it might not be an illegitimate question.]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Ear Protection</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/buy-ear-protection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambitions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=5873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The collision of Mr. Obama&#8217;s ambitions with the architecture of reality is going to be a thunderous thing to hear. Be prepared.]]></description>
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