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A Second Hand Conjecture

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A group blog which discusses politics, religion, economics and culture with a libertarian slant.A group blog which discusses politics, religion, economics and culture with a libertarian slant.

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Fact-Checking 101

It should be clear by now to anyone who frequently reads blogs that the MSM is not terribly accurate in its reporting, nor does it seem to have any intention of getting better at it. Whether you think the media leans left (as I think it demonstrably does) or right, there is no denying [...]

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The Next Right - A New Activism

For those on the political right who have bemoaned the lack of any real grassroots, online activism in support of Republican(ish) causes, there is a new project in the works just for you. Political blogging mavens Jon Henke, Patrick Ruffini, and Soren Dayton are getting ready to launch The Next Right. Ruffini describes [...]

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Failed Wars = Great Strategies!

One thing I’ll never understand about the military is how it looks to failed wars to prove the truthiness of its current strategy. What baffles me more is how earnest scholars, like Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations, manage to revel in such silliness. Surely he knows what a failure is? To whit: [...]

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“Those poor school kids didn’t hire the right lobbyist.”

Congress is behaving atrociously: cutting assistance to hungry children abroad right when food prices are spiking, and preventing competition amongst our sugar producers. There’s more, of course. I normally scoff at the talk of “lobbyists” and “special interest groups.” I know several lobbyists, and the only thing that makes them special is they’ve learned how [...]

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Vote For Obama Or You Will Make Little Girls Cry

That’s what I took from Michelle Obama’s stump speech anyway (HT: Jim Lindgren): She tells the story of a ten-year-old girl she met in Newberry, S.C., before that state’s primary. “It was in a little beauty shop, and we were having a rally — it was me and a bunch of women and a couple of [...]

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The Wright Stuff

I haven’t had much time to grace the pages of ASHC lately, but I was skimming through Memeorandum and just couldn’t resist saying something about this little screed: Wright issue will haunt conservative media elite By Roland S. Martin CNN Contributor Now that Sen. Barack Obama has denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, many of his critics, [...]

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The Other Credit Shoe Drops

If being upside down on your mortgage isn’t bad enough, consider how many people are into large pickups and SUVs for more then they are worth. And now with gas prices climbing they want to get out of them. The sale of new SUVs and pickup trucks has dropped precipitously in recent months amid soaring [...]

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Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won’t Matter

Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I’ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, and tries to make the case that much of the turbulence there is really not [...]

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And Pigs Will Fly…

Hmmm, oil states controlling production to just barely meet 35.6% of supply so they can keep prices high. That’s bad. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_OPEC_can_no_longer_be_a_cartel.html “We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush [...]

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Roads, More Roads, and Still More Roads Indeed!

This is the latest post in a running commentary on a new meme to emerge from the PR folks in Afghanistan: the security benefits of building roads. The argument, advanced by a few American reporters and one David Kilcullen, is that building paved roads reduces the IED threat and contributes to the security necessary for [...]

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This is an Onion Headline Right?

Right? Please? University of Kentucky picks up commitment from 8th grader. Word is he wants to major in pokemon training. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasecondhandconjecture.com%2Findex.php%2F2008%2F05%2F02%2Fthis-is-an-onion-headline-right%2F'; addthis_title = 'This+is+an+Onion+Headline+Right%3F'; addthis_pub = '';

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Pressing the Flesh

Robby and I got back to our roots a few weeks ago, garage band roots that is. We went to see the Fleshtones. Robby shared his thoughts over at Last Fm. I figure they belong here as well. First, my verdict. Maybe the most fun band ever live. Yeah, click the links, go listen to [...]

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Clinton Campaign Steppin’ In It - Updated

I agree with one of the commenters over on HotAir… How DARE they call us Indianans. We are called Hoosiers for some gawd damn reason, so call us that when you’re insulting us. I dare him to come here and say that. It would be a tossup if he were beaten or laughed at. [...]

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Political Coup in Nevada GOP Convention

Some political chaos going on in the Nevada Republican Convention. Ron Paul supporters amassed at the convention in hopes of taking it over and electing their own people as delegates. Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list [...]

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Chicks Are Cool, ‘Long As They Know Their Place

Only in America’s Army: KHOST, Afghanistan — Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, the 18-year-old medic grabbed her bag and ran through gunfire toward fellow soldiers in a crippled and burning [...]

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Hugo’s Road to Ruin Continues

I say it eventually ends in mass murder, but McQ has the latest intermediate step. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasecondhandconjecture.com%2Findex.php%2F2008%2F05%2F01%2Fhugos-road-to-ruin-continues%2F'; addthis_title = 'Hugo%26%238217%3Bs+Road+to+Ruin+Continues'; addthis_pub = '';

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The Victims of Communism Day

Let us remember what May Day has really represented RJ Rummell gives us the toll of The Red Plague: As you can see, the total mid-estimate is about 110,286,000, an incredible total. It is around 65 percent of all democide over the same period, and is about three times greater than all the international and domestic [...]

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Second Thoughts?

Joe Tobacco is now a registered Democrat. Reading this I am thinking he is having some second thoughts. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasecondhandconjecture.com%2Findex.php%2F2008%2F05%2F01%2Fsecond-thoughts%2F'; addthis_title = 'Second+Thoughts%3F'; addthis_pub = '';

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William Bernstein on the History of Trade

Over at Econ Talk, William Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of trade: Drawing on the insights from his recent book, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, Bernstein talks about the magic of spices, how trade in sugar explain why Jews ended up in Manhattan, the real political economy of [...]

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And On This Topic -

John McCain gets my vote. What exactly is the problem with the American health-care system? The problem is not that Americans don’t have fine doctors, medical technology, and treatments. American medicine is the envy of the world. The problem is not that most Americans lack adequate health insurance. The vast majority of Americans have private insurance, and [...]

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Middle Class Burdens

Thanks to Don Boudreaux, I found this “Inconvenient Truth” about the struggles of the middle class. As readers here know, I have long been a bear on housing, but as always those who want their hands on our wallet can take any crisis or problem as a license to take from us. Todd Zywicki writes [...]

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Why White People Like Free Health Care

Yet another reason to read Steve Newton, you discover blogs with stuff like this on it: But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having a full-time job. This would allow them to work as a freelance designer/consultant/copywriter/photographer/blogger, open their own [...]

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Man Regrows Finger, Amazing or Not?

Reading Instapundit I came across this story from BBC about a man who’s used a special powder of pig bladder cells to regrow the tip of his finger that he’d chopped off. I share the professor’s futurist view and optimism, but I’m not so sure that it’s warranted in this case. You see, it’s not that [...]

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Restructure State to Save It

Cross-posted from Registan.net, your one-stop shop for news and analysis of going on in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Thirteen months ago, I noted the problems caused by the U.S. State Department having dramatically different divisions than the military COCOMs. The DoD considers Pakistan part of the Central Command, or CENTCOM (which includes the Middle East [...]

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Sins of Omission - Updated

The sin of omission that Hillary is committing with the re-telling of the Indiana plant moving to China (while not mentioning that it was sold to China during her husbands tenure,) is starting to gather some light. The following story was linked by the DrudgeReport today. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/35337.html It’s a story Hillary Clinton loves to tell, about [...]

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Man Arrested Trying to Cash $360 Billion Check

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Shooting Oneself in the Foot

Never underestimate the power of a politician to overestimate their power, especially in an election year. Just as the signs are trending towards a “permanent” majority for Democrats, one of them has the bright idea to poke a sleeping bear. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, has introduced a bill that would allow the FBI to [...]

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Jefferson Memorial Follow Up

Following up on Jon’s post a few weeks ago on the group dancing at the Jefferson memorial, we have some more information. A group of friends and other people at the incident have set up a web page. Free the Jefferson 1. The girl was arrested at the incident for “interfering with an agency function,” [...]

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Let’s Talk About Chicks, Man

A few weeks ago, my friend Megan Carpentier wondered on Glamocracy why there aren’t more prominent female political bloggers out there: But does it have to be that way? Blogs are supposed to be populist and thus it would seem like women could more easily level the playing field here than in other media. Red State’s [...]

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