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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Richard Nixon</title>
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		<title>The Rise of Decline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/04/the-rise-of-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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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>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
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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>Nixon and Kissinger in Watchmen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newish montage for the screen version of Watchmen, has a fine scene of the Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger characters about mid way through it (video). Looks like they finally found an actor who could do the nose.]]></description>
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		<title>Through a Kristol, Darkly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland has some commentary on Bill Kristol&#8216;s recent return to advocacy for &#8220;national greatness conservatism.&#8221; You have to love Matt Welch&#8216;s assessment of this event in title: &#8220;Big-Government Conservative, After Helping Big-Government Conservatism Fail, Advocates Big-Government Conservatism.&#8221; Roland is more &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/through-a-kristol-darkly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immunizing Sarah Palin</title>
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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>A Republican Atavism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don&#8217;t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/a-republican-atavism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Scandals Can Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the teenage pregnancy of Sarah Palin&#8217;s daughter Bristol has excited social conservatives even more about the candidate (for the when-it-counts demonstration of opposition to abortion). According to Grover Norquist, the soc-cons are &#8220;over the moon&#8221; in their support. That&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/minor-scandals-can-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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