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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Realism of Ward Connerly</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/the-realism-of-ward-connerly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Magazine takes a lengthy look at the always fascinating Ward Connerly, and his struggle to end Affirmative Action in the United States. While he continues to be vilified by the defenders of &#8220;positive discrimination&#8221; and as his ballot initiatives &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/the-realism-of-ward-connerly/">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>McCain&#8217;s Secular Conservatism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/mccains-secular-conservatism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Chris Dunn The Moderate Voice takes a good and short look at McCain&#8217;s politics and notices a compelling absence of social conservative moral lectures, as well as a preference for stressing the characteristics of conservatism that Americans find most &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/mccains-secular-conservatism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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