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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Republicans</title>
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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>
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		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1976]]></category>
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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>Athens into Persepolis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=6330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush&#8217;s characterization of capitalism as the &#8220;highway to the American Dream.&#8221; Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin in 2012</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/sarah-palin-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/sarah-palin-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen reports today that Sarah Palin is the choice of 64% of Republicans for the 2012 Republican nomination, and that a staggering 91% of Republicans have a favorable impression of her (equally remarkable, 65% rate their view as &#8216;highly favorable&#8217;). &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/sarah-palin-in-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We are led by little men and women</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/29/we-are-led-by-little-men-and-women/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/29/we-are-led-by-little-men-and-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paulson plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was not in favor of the Paulson plan if you haven&#8217;t caught that yet. Still, the pitiful display from our congress today set a recent low. First, faced with an unpopular and contentious bill which she feels for the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/29/we-are-led-by-little-men-and-women/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan: Does This Work?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, a sequence of interviews with Democratic leaders has revealed this to be the political plan being recommended to the Obama campaign: 1. Tie the Republican to an unpopular President Bush. 2. Let no charge go &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Mentions at the Convention</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/bush-mentions-at-the-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/bush-mentions-at-the-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to ThinkProgress&#8217; count President Bush went completely unmentioned last night at the convention. Rather sad and rather weak. There are plenty of defensible polices of the administration (if there seem to be an equal number of indefensible ones). Avoiding &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/bush-mentions-at-the-convention/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Palinism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/pennsylvania-palinism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/pennsylvania-palinism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RightWingNation has some good photographs from the Pennsylvania McCain/Palin rally. Evidently the crowd kept drowning Sarah out with adulatory chants.]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know John Edwards Had A Love-Baby?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/did-you-know-john-edwards-had-a-love-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/did-you-know-john-edwards-had-a-love-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adultery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m honestly kind of surprised that people are surprised John Edwards had an affair on his cancer-ridden wife and fathered a baby. I mean, I know that&#8217;s something we thought was limited only to Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Rudy &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/did-you-know-john-edwards-had-a-love-baby/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Begins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/jindal-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/jindal-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumors have it that Bobby Jindal will deliver the keynote address at the RNCC. Shlok Vaidya thinks the GOP intends to position Jindal for 2012, the way the Democrats managed Obama in 2004. Interesting and possible, although such things are &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/jindal-begins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Defenders Unite!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/marriage-defenders-unite/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/marriage-defenders-unite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is telling that some of the most outspoken anti-gay Republicans out there, who attach their name to anti-gay marriage amendments no less, are tranny bottoms, cruisy sluts, and whore-mongers. Not that there is anything fundamental to Republican Christian conservatism &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/marriage-defenders-unite/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beneath the Surface</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/beneath-the-surface/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/beneath-the-surface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people believe that liberals and Democrats are more sympathetic to gay interests than conservatives and Republicans. Count me among those who think this is accurate. But, not all is what it seems on the surface. Some Republicans &#8211; some &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/beneath-the-surface/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Result Possible</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/2462/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want the best possible result? Sure; don&#8217;t we all? When I play bridge, we frequently say: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t get the best possible result. But &#8211; I got the best result possible.&#8221; Sometimes, the best possible result is impossible &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/2462/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Peevish Pastor</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huckabee was interviewed on MSNBC on the day Fred Thompson withdrew. The liberation theologist took the opportunity to further ridicule and attack Fred and his supporters for supposedly injuring his campaign in South Carolina. Smart move Huck, really should endear &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/the-peevish-pastor/">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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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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>Hatred on the Homefront for McCain</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/hatred-on-the-homefront-for-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/hatred-on-the-homefront-for-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maricopa County Republicans (McCain&#8217;s home county) held a meeting and had a straw poll on the primaries. McCain was voted &#8220;Most Unacceptable,&#8221; ahead of even Ron Paul. Fred Thompson won the &#8220;Most Acceptable&#8221; vote, but then lost to Romney &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/hatred-on-the-homefront-for-mccain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Megan McCardle calls the Democrats bluff</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to hear any more about how the Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility; none of them are planning to close the current deficit, much less deal with the now-seriously-it-really-is-looming entitlement problem. Their tax code changes will &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I think this is true</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/i-think-this-is-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least the last sentence, my emphasis: First he has no chance whatever of being elected President of the United States of America. He is a rich kid, yes so is George Bush as well &#8211; but George Bush gives &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/i-think-this-is-true/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Retreat to the Fringe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/retreat-to-the-fringe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social conservatives and particularly crypto-socialist social conservatives (or &#8220;populists&#8221; if you prefer), are inevitably going to be a minority faction within the GOP. But to their great credit they themselves recognize this. The implications of that self-awareness are dire for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/retreat-to-the-fringe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frontrunnerless</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/frontrunnerless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are very happy about the Michigan results: media firms. As Ken Wheaton  points out in Advertising Age, with there still being no clear frontrunner for the GOP nom, spending on advertising is about to go through the roof.]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Own Constitution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of Mike Huckabee arguing that &#8220;what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.&#8221; Hmm. Is that really in accord with anyone&#8217;s notion of Founders intent? I know committed social conservatives who &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/gods-own-constitution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A MITI for Detroit</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/a-miti-for-detroit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney appears to be calling for a government directed solution to the American automotive indutry&#8217;s woes. Marc Ambinder uses the occasion to point out that save Thompson, interventionist government seems to be a consistent theme for all the GOP &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/a-miti-for-detroit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/29/the-green-party-and-national-security-an-interview-with-alan-augustson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 05:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson&#8216;s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/29/the-green-party-and-national-security-an-interview-with-alan-augustson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>â€œSmall-Government Libertarianâ€</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/07/%e2%80%9csmall-government-libertarian%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have caused some confusion with my previous post, â€œPutting the Question to the Bishop,â€ by an inartful use of the term â€œsmall-government libertarian.â€ The more I think about, the clearer it becomes to me that this term &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/07/%e2%80%9csmall-government-libertarian%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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