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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; political</title>
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		<title>The End of the Anti-Bush Economy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/the-end-of-the-anti-bush-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/the-end-of-the-anti-bush-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collapse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impending collapse of the anti-Bush merchandise market spells doom for the national economy: &#8220;We need to develop totally new products for marginally politically active liberals to throw their money away on.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>An Outside View of the State of Our Presidential Race</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/an-outside-view-of-the-state-of-our-presidential-race/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/an-outside-view-of-the-state-of-our-presidential-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Glick via Ace of Spades Caroline Glick is an astute observer of our political situation. She is based in Jerusalem. &#8220;McCain&#8217;s strategic grasp of the requirements for a successful presidential race provide an important lesson for policy-makers and political &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/an-outside-view-of-the-state-of-our-presidential-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Fine Figure of a Republican</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title is what Time Magazine labeled New Jersey&#8217;s Senator William Warren Barbour in 1940. The expression takes on a better curve for Sarah Palin, but it fits the occasion of a very partisan and frankly rather phenomenal speech tonight &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/">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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/ethnostatism-fails/#comments</comments>
		<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>Russian Imperialism and the Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Chris Dunn) John Bolton argues that the future of Russian imperialism in Eurasia rides on the outcome of the US presidential election. Unsurprisingly, he pitches McCain: &#8220;First reactions, before the campaigns’ pollsters and consultants get involved are always the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Regulated Conjecture?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/a-regulated-conjecture/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/a-regulated-conjecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain problem in that the folks who protest most vociferously about the Bush administration&#8217;s violations of free speech rights, also tend to support the direct government regulation of political speech. A disturbing poll suggests they may have the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/a-regulated-conjecture/">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>On that &#8220;Permanent Underclass&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/on-that-permanent-underclass/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/on-that-permanent-underclass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kind of an interesting little chart. Is it conceivable that most of our political narratives are nonreflective of economic reality? Don&#8217;t answer that. (Investor&#8217;s Business Daily)]]></description>
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		<title>A Sexual Imagination is Not a Crime</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/30/a-sexual-imagination-is-not-a-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/30/a-sexual-imagination-is-not-a-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Serguei Kovalev) Christopher Hitchens once said that the trouble with biographers of Thomas Jefferson, is that there appears to be the collective assumption on their part that the great man was without a penis. I&#8217;m reminded of this truth &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/30/a-sexual-imagination-is-not-a-crime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oops</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/oops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clerical ally of Huckabee is in trouble with the IRS for turning his tax-exempt church into a political platform. Now that seems like a &#8220;fair tax&#8221; no?]]></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>Delegating it to the Superdelegates</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/delegating-it-to-the-superdelegates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Taylor takes a look at Paul Kane&#8216;s conclusion that it is now mathematically impossible for either Obama or Clinton to win the nomination with pledged delegates, and notes that a super-delegate decided nominee represents an enormous political problem for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/delegating-it-to-the-superdelegates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Too Sexy for France</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/too-sexy-for-fance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carla Bruni]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Sarkozy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carla Bruni, Nicholas Sarkozy&#8217;s bride, is upsetting the &#8220;traditional morality&#8221; of France. I was somewhat surprised to learn there was such a thing, but apparently it goes like this: men are permitted to be promiscuous and women are permitted to&#8230;stay &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/too-sexy-for-fance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Fred</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/reflections-on-fred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a post better suited for yesterday and Fred&#8217;s withdrawal, but I suppose I let myself get distracted without posting it. It should go without saying that while I was unsurprised by the event, it was nevertheless disappointing. But &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/reflections-on-fred/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Take Two</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/take-two/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/take-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier in the day, you might have been wondering how much of your assets might melt away, as markets around the world gyrated with perceived increasingly negative news. Later, on political blogs everywhere, reports that Fred Thompson was ending a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/take-two/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unions in Retreat</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/19/unions-in-retreat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></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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