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		<title>Have National Politics Urbanized?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/03/12/have-national-politics-urbanized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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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>Bring Back Welfare, Please</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 11.6 million unemployed persons in the United States today. Meanwhile, the current estimate of the total cost of the spending package passed to alleviate this distress is $827 billion.  President Obama &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/">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>
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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>
		<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>Eichmann Endures</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, has succeeded in partially replicating Stanley Milgram&#8217;s famous social obedience experiment, whereby test subjects torture strangers with electrical shocks when told to do so. Depressingly, mankind appears to remain as obedient to evil as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/20/eichmann-endures/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Hurt Feelings</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger FangKC queried the archive of the People&#8217;s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s mouthpiece, and discovered that 19 countries and organizations have been officially accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. You can anticipate some such as the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Philippines as Red State</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filipino writer Benjamin Pimentel is surprised to discover that his countrymen were among the very few foreign populations to prefer John McCain to Barack Obama in a Gallup international survey. A happy place for Republicans in a lonely world apparently, as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/the-philippines-as-red-state/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear Blue Sky</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NASA) Today is the 11th. The unwelcome anniversary. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard. I was awoken by a phone call on the day. &#8220;The country&#8217;s under attack!&#8221; the phone said. You wake up rather fast when that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama &#8220;intimidated&#8221; by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/10/a-rosy-future-for-anti-americanism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi&#8217;s opera Nabucco &#8211;the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance&#8211; the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev&#8217;s Caribbean Dream</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia: &#8220;I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.&#8221; (AFP) We&#8217;d &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Declinism as Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China and Provincial Secessionism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Cuts Loose</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say. Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country&#8217;s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke has a solution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM: Dr Ben Bernanke Central Bank of United States of America 01-658-555-1234 TO: CEO Lagos, Nigeria Dear Friend: I have been requested by the regional members Federal Reserve of the USA to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili has a Future</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night Joshua argued that Saakashvili, having quite obviously failed to recapture his renegade territories, is certain to be finished one way or the other. Either overthrown by the Russian army, or by the Georgian people at the ballot box. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yaoch!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/yaoch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States pulverizes China 101-70.]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Sides on South Ossetia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an ambiguous initial reaction, the State Department appears to have realized that despite whatever Russia contends, it is physically impossible for Georgia to invade its own country: &#8220;We call on Russia to cease attacks on Georgia by aircraft and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/choosing-sides-on-south-ossetia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Line in the Sand</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/a-line-in-the-sand/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/a-line-in-the-sand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Gasp* Is that a border? A real, defined, fenced, national border? For our country?? Trick photography surely.]]></description>
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		<title>A New Libertarianism of Paranoid Revolt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/a-new-libertarianism-of-paranoid-revolt/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/a-new-libertarianism-of-paranoid-revolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan Page (who is a kind of Ronpaulist Joan Baez) reflects on the &#8220;Revolution March,&#8221; a July 12th Ron Paul protest rally in Washington DC, in part organized by Adam Kokesh (who of late believes the Washington police are involved &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/a-new-libertarianism-of-paranoid-revolt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Supermarkets Can End Poverty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That&#8217;s because industrial countries tend &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Speaks to the American Electorate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/russia-speaks-to-the-american-electorate/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/russia-speaks-to-the-american-electorate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sober, secular and educated new residents to New Mexico can often be found painting the frames of their doors and windows a vivid bright blue. Having seen the habit practiced on the homes of locals, the newcomers invariably assume it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/russia-speaks-to-the-american-electorate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tidal Empires of War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/the-tidal-empires-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Charles Roffey &#8211; Charles &#38; Fred) Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It&#8217;s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/the-tidal-empires-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Western Way of War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/another-western-way-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a somewhat shocking interview of Victor Davis Hanson by Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit, Abe Greenwald clips a portion where Hanson ferociously thrashes the contemporary European Weltanschuuang. He calls it a secularized, socialist pacifism, that has deluded a continent into &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/another-western-way-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Al Qaeda&#8217;s Crisis in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/inside-al-qaedas-crisis-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) member in Arab Jabour, Iraq (photo: DoD) In extraordinary documents confiscated in November by the United States, we get an enemy&#8217;s eye view of the Awakening in Iraq, and further confirmation about how debilitating the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/inside-al-qaedas-crisis-in-iraq/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hottest Governor</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/29/the-hottest-governor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draft Sarah Palin has some excerpts from Alaska Magazine&#8216;s profile of &#8220;America&#8217;s Hottest Governor.&#8221; Palin also happens to be the most popular governor in America. Indeed, with approval ratings often in the 90s, the conservative Republican is perhaps the most &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/29/the-hottest-governor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Single Mother Country</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-single-mother-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would a war be without a baby boom(let)? Alone in the Occident, Americans continue to invest in the future with strong population growth, while Europe continues to die off faster than it reproduces. Will these new babies be the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-single-mother-country/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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