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    <title>Chaos, coup, conspiracy: How does the RWA appear? – Camestros Felapton</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-01T13:06:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/chaos-coup-conspiracy-how-does-the-rwa-appear/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is a giant iceberg of background here, partly why I’ve gone on for so very long. We don’t and can’t know all the details and manifestly even the very best run and well intentioned professional association of writers is walking a tightrope of cultural change and fragile commercial viability of its members currently. However, there is also a very specific and odd set of direct events in the final quarter of 2019 that can’t be explained by systemic problems alone.

My first reaction last week reading that report was just how very odd it was. Things have only intensified that impression. I can’t tell Damon Suede what to do and in the end it is a matter for RWA members not me.

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    <dc:date>2019-03-09T15:45:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As we grapple with new realities created by digitization, demographics, and their impacts on labor markets, such questions about the allocation of property rights among different claimants become crucial. Economics does not necessarily have definite answers here. Nor does it provide the appropriate distributional weights (how to weigh the returns to workers, employers, and the government, and what procedural and deontological constraints should be respected). But it does supply the tools needed to lay out the tradeoffs, thus contributing to a more informed democratic debate.

The same kind of institutional indeterminacy pervades all other policy domains. Which labor market institutions minimize job insecurity without jeopardizing employment creation? How do we best provide social protection without blunting economic incentives? What kind of financial regulations ensure financial stability without blocking financial innovation? What kind of monetary and fiscal rules are best for an open economy? Economics does not provide a fixed answer to these questions. Instead, it highlights the potential consequences of different arrangements.  

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    <title>How blind reverence for science obscures real problems</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-29T11:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/28/how-blind-reverence-science-obscures-real-problems/?noredirect=on</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In actual fact, “social justice” jargon wasn’t enough — as the hoaxers initially thought — to deceive, but sprinkling in fake data did the trick better than jargon or political pieties ever could. Like Ocasio-Cortez’s critics, who trust too easily in the appearance of scientific objectivity, the hoaxed journals were more likely to buy outrageous claims if they were backed by something that looked like scientific data. It’s not that the hoax was an utter failure, nor that we shouldn’t worry about the vulnerabilities it exposed. It’s that, ironically, scientism and misplaced scientific authority actually contribute to those vulnerabilities and undermine science in the process.
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    <dc:date>2018-12-10T12:05:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-incentives-its-you/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A random bystander who happened to eavesdrop on a conversation between a group of scientists kvetching about The Incentives could be forgiven for thinking that maybe, just maybe, a bunch of very industrious people who generally pride themselves on their creativity, persistence, and intelligence could find some way to work around, or through, the problem. And I think they would be right. The fact that we collectively don’t see it as a colossal moral failing that we haven’t figured out a way to get our work done without having to routinely cut corners in the rush for fame and fortune is deeply troubling.

It’s also aggravating on an intellectual level, because the argument that we’re all being egregiously and continuously screwed over by The Incentives is just not that good. I think there are a lot of reasons why researchers should be very hesitant to invoke The Incentives as a justification for why any of us behave the way we do. I’ll give nine of them here, but I imagine there are probably others.

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    <title>The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel” – Political Orphans</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-15T11:18:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[**This was originally posted to Forbes on Sunday, Mar 11. Forbes took it down today. This is the explanation I received from the editor. Here is the original article in full:

Robert Jeffress, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, earned headlines this week for his defense of the president’s adultery with a porn star. Regarding the affair and subsequent financial payments, Jeffress explained, “Even if it’s true, it doesn’t matter.”

Such a casual attitude toward adultery and prostitution might seem odd from a guy who blamed 9/11 on America’s sinfulness. However, seen through the lens of white evangelicals’ real priorities, Jeffress’ disinterest in Trump’s sordid lifestyle makes sense. Religion is inseparable from culture, and culture is inseparable from history. Modern, white evangelicalism emerged from the interplay between race and religion in the slave states. What today we call “evangelical Christianity,” is the product of centuries of conditioning, in which religious practices were adapted to nurture a slave economy. The calloused insensitivity of modern white evangelicals was shaped by the economic and cultural priorities that forged their theology over centuries.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-05-03T11:05:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cost-ofliving.net/shame-the-illegitimacy-of-dependency-under-neoliberalism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But what came as a surprise to us was the no legitimate dependency discourse, which meant that there was no legitimate way to be dependent on another. Dependency meant not just weakness but something more negative than that – as a symptom of a desire to shirk responsibility for one’s own failings. The no legitimate dependency discourse was constituted of a mix of self-blame and ‘othering’ (blaming others) and our suggestion is that this reflects discursive aspects of neoliberalism which are internalised as though they were individual characteristics or points of view.

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    <title>Seth's Blog: I am 'anti-business', you might be too</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-19T11:38:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/04/i-am-anti-business.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If anti-business means supporting a structure that builds a foundation where more people can flourish over time, then sign me up.

A more interesting conversation, given how thoroughly intertwined business and social issues are, is whether someone is short-term or long-term. Not all long-term ideas are good ones, not all of them work, but it makes no sense to confuse them with the label of anti-business.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>business-culture conservatism corporatism pol</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6bb51108b736/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/2015-abortion-bills-state-legislatures">
    <title>The War on Reproductive Rights Will Get a Lot Uglier Next Year | Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-20T13:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/2015-abortion-bills-state-legislatures</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Next year, Republicans will control 11 more legislative chambers than they did in 2014. Lawmakers in Texas and North Dakota are back in session, and there are no major elections to take up lawmakers' time or cause them worry about war-on-women attacks.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>antebellum-America the-South-will-rise-again conservatism politics it-was-a-good-run-while-it-lasted</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2dc8f3097c06/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-South-will-rise-again"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itself.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/an-opinion-for-which-i-could-live-and-die/">
    <title>An Opinion For Which I Could Live and Die | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-14T12:48:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itself.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/an-opinion-for-which-i-could-live-and-die/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’d say the paradox wasn’t within neoliberalism itself but in liberalism (of which neoliberalism is a subtle species). This point is made by John Gray and Alasdair MacIntyre and anyone who has thought about it a bit: liberalism simultaneously claims “there is no right way for humans to live” and “this is the right way for humans to live”. It claims there is no norm but sneaks a norm in naturalised and disguised. This is, of course, also Marx’s point. Of course all the best liberals (those at the founding and those responding to the communitarian critique) have rather deflated this move by saying (quite fairly in my view against this gotcha) “actually we are maintaining the latter which contains the former” or that “no liberalism is a definitive normative form of life”.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-economy dogma conservatism philosophy Oh-the-Humanities Lakatos-had-a-hard-core</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6e4c7412b852/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/09/34308/">
    <title>Thoughts on Migration, Immigration, and Exile on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-14T12:19:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/09/34308/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Between 1994 and 2001, at least 1,700 migrants from Mexico died trying to reach the United States. Throughout its entire existence, by contrast, exactly 171 people died trying to cross the Berlin wall.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy immigration history oh-democracy the-nation-state conservatism the-sneetches-and-other-stories humanism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:12cae279b23a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:oh-democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-nation-state"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-sneetches-and-other-stories"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/05/screw-the-taxpayer/">
    <title>Screw the taxpayer — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-16T19:21:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/05/screw-the-taxpayer/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The “taxpayer” trope is a pernicious ideological assault on the very idea of equal citizenship. It is elitist and exclusionary and promulgates a false theory of the state according to which government belongs to the propertied. No it doesn’t: it belongs to its citizens, rich and poor, old and young.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms politics language-as-a-virus conservatism things-to-watch-out-for</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b2ab1c000a86/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:language-as-a-virus"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bigthink.com/marriage-30/when-is-a-gaffe-not-a-gaffe">
    <title>When is a Gaffe not a Gaffe? | Marriage 3.0 | Big Think</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-13T23:17:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigthink.com/marriage-30/when-is-a-gaffe-not-a-gaffe</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The faction that keeps making these comments about rape are striving in general to undo the gains of the women’s movement, consistent with their perspective that abortion rights, sexual rights, easy access to birth control, and the advancement of sexual liberty by the emphasis on consent, for example, were culturally damaging developments that they’d like to see reversed. 

This agenda, or political mood, is hardly a secret. The most elegant, if politically alarming, likelihood is that the comments say what the speaker wants to say.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t get said so often.  

As they say, you can hide the fire, but what are you going to do with the smoke?]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics conservatism sexism Republicans cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4f81cbc324f3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/newtown">
    <title>Not Safe For Work Corporation | From &quot;Operation Wetback&quot; To Newtown: Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-22T13:23:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/newtown</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It takes years to cultivate a political mindset that voluntarily neutralizes itself by convincing itself that its contribution to world revolution comes down to purchasing a few guns at K-Mart, then blogging about it. That’s what reactionary plutocrats like the Koch brothers understood about the deeper politics of gun fanaticism, and why their outfits like the Cato Institute have been at the forefront of overturning gun regulations and promoting "Stand Your Ground" vigilantism as a substitute for political engagement: That by poisoning the political climate, it poisons the minds, which circulates back to the external environment, and back into the minds, until you lock the culture into a pattern in which you always get more and they always get fleeced, which makes them more fanatical and you more powerful...

This is what I missed or ignored about gun control: The longterm view that the Koch brothers and the Scaifes and everyone backing gun-nuttery understood about how gun laws or the absence of those laws can completely transform the surrounding political climate.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics firearms public-policy fascism conservatism individualism-trumps-engagement</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:44cec87c1a3f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fascism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:individualism-trumps-engagement"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/how-the-right-is-wrong-ab_b_2340130.html">
    <title>Jeffrey Sachs: How the Right Is Wrong About Happiness</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-20T22:51:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/how-the-right-is-wrong-ab_b_2340130.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not entirely surprising that Brooks gets things so wrong. His whole reasoning is based on two premises that are so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable. First, Brooks says that lottery winners are less happy because they did not work to earn their windfall. He then equates social spending with winning the lottery, and since they are both "unearned" in his view, he claims they are therefore both destructive of human happiness.

Brooks is right to shine a light on all of the sad cases of people who have won tens of millions of dollars in lotteries only to see their lives fall apart. This perverse outcome is indeed sociologically interesting. It tells us that contrary to the conservative mania to help the rich, being super-rich is no sure path to happiness, and huge life-changing windfalls from a lottery are probably even less sure, since one's whole life and social context are turned upside down. Yet it tells us nothing reliable about government programs for jobs, disability, health care, social security, education, or any other social program. To equate these programs with Powerball is daft if not worse.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics conservatism anglicanism-run-amuck 1830s-New-York-style hedonics leading-your-conclusions-by-their-premises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7212e8503e29/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hedonics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:leading-your-conclusions-by-their-premises"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/delusions-of-reason/">
    <title>Delusions of Reason - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-11T13:29:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/delusions-of-reason/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The truth is that the modern GOP is deeply anti-intellectual, and has as its fundamental goal not just a rollback of the welfare state but a rollback of the Enlightenment. Yet there are some wannabe intellectuals who delude themselves into believing that they have aligned themselves with the party of objective (as opposed to Objectivist) analysis."]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism anti-intellectualism Randism politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d05e14113b90/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/29/working-class-voters-america-republican">
    <title>Working class voters: why America's poor are willing to vote Republican | World news | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-30T12:18:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/29/working-class-voters-america-republican</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Furthermore, most of these explanations regarding deeply held religious beliefs, class aspiration and political philosophy are no less of non whites than whites. Blacks and Latinos are both poorer and more religious than the nation at large and vote overwhelmingly Democrat. While racism may not be the primary motivating force behind poorer whites tendency to vote Republican it is certainly a factor."]]></description>
<dc:subject>populism politics conservatism why-does-nobody-read-history?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4eb776ba9485/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/14/barack-obama-s-forgotten-founding-father-in-revolutionary-france.html">
    <title>Barack Obama’s Forgotten Founding Father in Revolutionary France - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-15T12:28:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/14/barack-obama-s-forgotten-founding-father-in-revolutionary-france.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This was because in the space of that decade, the West’s first “post-racial” society had been legislated out of existence. The man behind all these new laws was Dumas’s fellow French general, Napoleon Bonaparte, who coopted the republic and made himself dictator. Behind Napoleon was the money and backing of the growers and traders who had lost a fortune during France’s decade-long experiment in racial equality. They wanted their plantations and slaves back, and Napoleon gave them this and more. He sent an army to the French West Indies with orders to re-impose slavery on people who had felt the French Revolution was their own. Any black officer in uniform, no matter how loyally he had served the republic, was killed or thrown in chains. The most famous example was Toussaint Louverture, another red-white-and-blue believer in the ideals of universal liberty, who was sent back to France to die in a dungeon.

General Dumas survived his own ordeal in a dungeon but lived to see his country’s color-blind meritocracy destroyed. Black officers in the French army were sent to work in the equivalent of chain gangs. Black legislators were kicked out of their jobs; integrated schools were closed. By the time General Dumas died, in 1806, his marriage to a white woman was illegal as was his residence as a man of color in the vicinity of Paris."]]></description>
<dc:subject>nanohistory conservatism race Dumas</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5ecf74f04665/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/07/the-sociology-of-organizations.html">
    <title>Economist's View: &quot;The Sociology of Organizations&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-23T14:19:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/07/the-sociology-of-organizations.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It often sounds as though Perrow is faulting these organizations for defects that are inherent in all large organizations. But it seems more fair to say that his analysis does not identify a general feature of organizations that leads to failure in these cases, but rather a situational fact having to do with the power of business to resist regulation and the susceptibility of Congress and the President to political pressures that hamstring effective regulatory organizations. Perrow does refer to specific organizational hazards -- bad executive leadership, faltering morale, inability to collaborate across agencies, excessively hierarchical architecture -- but the heart of his argument lies elsewhere. The key set of problems spiral back to the inordinate power that corporations have in the United States, and the distortions they create in Congress and the executive branch. ... It is specifics of the US political system rather than general defects of large organizations per se that lead to the bad outcomes that Perrow identifies. There are strong democracies that do a much better job of regulating risky industries and planning for disasters than we do -- for example, France and Germany. ...
There isn't much public concern about these risks, and legislators are therefore free to ignore them as well. ... So where will the political demand for strong regulation come from? Will we need to wait for the bad news we've managed by good fortune to have avoided up to this point?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy infrastructure antebellum-America conservatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1ccd23753763/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bachmann-gaffney-and-the-gop-s-anti-muslim-culture-of-conspiracy.html">
    <title>Bachmann, Gaffney, and the GOP’s Anti-Muslim Culture of Conspiracy - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-23T14:17:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/23/bachmann-gaffney-and-the-gop-s-anti-muslim-culture-of-conspiracy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Earlier this month, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) appeared on the FOX Business show Money Rocks to make the case for depriving the children of immigrants of their 14th Amendment rights. Gohmert claimed that on a recent airplane trip to the Middle East, one of his traveling companions had struck up a conversation with a grandmother who described her family's involvement in a Hamas plot to send pregnant women to the United States. Gohmert summarized the lesson for viewers this way: "We're bringing them over here on tourist visas, some illegally, letting them be born here and saying, 'This is an American citizen. So come back in 20, 25 years when you're ready to blow us up.'""]]></description>
<dc:subject>paranoia Republicans conservatism conspiracy-theories political-discourse antebellum-America</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:15d126b95585/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/how-can-herbert-spencers-1892-revisions-to-his-social-statics-help-us-understand-conservative-opposition-to-the-individual-mandate/">
    <title>How Can Herbert Spencer’s 1892 Revisions to his Social Statics Help Us Understand Conservative Opposition to the Individual Mandate? | Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-17T00:43:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/how-can-herbert-spencers-1892-revisions-to-his-social-statics-help-us-understand-conservative-opposition-to-the-individual-mandate/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But I think it’s clear what his real objection was: universal suffrage has the potential to advance socialistic causes, interfering with his laissez-faire project. From his autobiography: “Another extension of the franchise since made…will inevitably be followed by a still more rapid growth of socialistic legislation.” When he realized women’s equality could potentially interfere with laissez-faire economics, it was time for women’s equality to get cut from his overall theory of a better world. He would rather mutilate his intellectual project instead of allowing his enemies to continue to build their governance project."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Herbert-Spencer laissez-faire corporatism capitalism politics conservatism via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e61c1f7ebc5d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/03/30/republican-conservatism-an-infantile-disorder/">
    <title>Republican conservatism (complete rewrite) — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-03T09:44:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/03/30/republican-conservatism-an-infantile-disorder/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The political implication, which has drawn some flak in the comments, but which I think is correct is that there is no point in political engagement with authoritarian conservatives. In a political environment where they are concentrated in one party,politics is going to be a matter the only strategy open to liberals is to outnumber and outvote them by peeling off as many peripheral groups (for example, those who deviate from the approved cultural identity in some way) as possible. Obviously, that’s an unpalatable conclusion in all sorts of ways, but I think it’s a valid one."]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism Republicans politics nature-and-nurture-sittin-in-a-tree</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ca808d816615/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/12/whats-challenging-about-paul">
    <title>What’s Challenging About Paul? : Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-01T14:02:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/12/whats-challenging-about-paul</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s wrong to think of Ron Paul’s racism and his libertarianism as two distinct parts of his political persona, when in fact they are deeply tied together. White supremacists understand what Glenn, apparently, does not; the absence of Federal authority makes it easier for private actors and local governments to repress the civil and political rights of minorities. Paul’s libertarianism emerged in a regional and cultural context that was deeply hostile to Federal efforts at integration. The newsletters give strong indication that none of this is lost on Ron Paul. A notional President Paul is just as likely to use the powers of the office to gut Federal enforcement of a wide range of civil liberties protections as he is to do any of the things that Glenn would like him to do.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics libertarianism racism conservatism populism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b52e67d625ff/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/watching-conservatives/the-economist-on-the-republicans/?">
    <title>The Economist on the Republicans « The Reality-Based Community</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-01T12:52:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/watching-conservatives/the-economist-on-the-republicans/?</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Economist – despite its unerring judgment about  books on crime control and drug policy – cannot be justly described a Democratic or liberal publication; it identifies itself as “pro-business, right-of-centre.” But, unlike the friends of plutocracy on this side of the Atlantic, the folks at The Economist believe in principles other than deregulation of enterprise and low taxes on the rich. Moreover, they remain largely reality-based, eschewing wingnut postmodernism.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism politics journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a252f6f43763/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-–-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html">
    <title>David Graeber: On the Invention of Money – Notes on Sex, Adventure, Monomaniacal Sociopathy and the True Function of Economics « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-13T12:57:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money-–-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At this point, it’s easier to understand why economists feel so defensive about challenges to the Myth of Barter, and why they keep telling the same old story even though most of them know it isn’t true. If what they are really describing is not how we ‘naturally’ behave but rather how we are taught to behave by the market—well who, nowadays, is doing most of the actual teaching? Primarily, economists. The question of barter cuts to the heart of not only what an economy is—most economists still insist that an economy is essentially a vast barter system, with money a mere tool (a position all the more peculiar now that the majority of economic transactions in the world have come to consist of playing around with money in one form or another) [10]—but also, the very status of economics: is it a science that describes of how humans actually behave, or prescriptive, a way of informing them how they should? (Remember, sciences generate hypothesis about the world that can be tested against the evidence and changed or abandoned if they don’t prove to predict what’s empirically there.)

Or is economics instead a technique of operating within a world that economists themselves have largely created? Or is it, as it appears for so many of the Austrians, a kind of faith, a revealed Truth embodied in the words of great prophets (such as Von Mises) who must, by definition be correct, and whose theories must be defended whatever empirical reality throws at them—even to the extent of generating imaginary unknown periods of history where something like what was originally described ‘must have’ taken place?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics rationality conservatism David-Graeber anthropology debt Austrian-school takedown pragmatism-it-ain't</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a28fc2f7eb2a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/25/988523/-Michele-Bachmann-rejects-the-whole-of-conservative-economic-theory-in-one-typed-sentence">
    <title>Daily Kos: Michele Bachmann rejects the whole of conservative economic theory in one typed sentence</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-03T12:10:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/25/988523/-Michele-Bachmann-rejects-the-whole-of-conservative-economic-theory-in-one-typed-sentence</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What to make of all this? First of all, it means that Michele Bachmann is a Keynesian. No, Michele, not a Kenyan: a Keynesian, an adherent to an economic theory loathed by conservatives but recognized as common sense by most others, and which supposes the need for government policy interventions in otherwise free markets. This very nearly makes Bachmann a Communist, according to her own party: luckily, Tea Party conservatives can count on the remarkable vapidity of their supporters in order to dodge such sticky political contradictions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture-clash conservatism worldview economics public-policy all-words-are-water</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ede0dd401211/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/05/ron-paul-and-feudal-society.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29">
    <title>Ron Paul and Feudal Society - Grasping Reality with Both Hands</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-05T20:53:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/05/ron-paul-and-feudal-society.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Before there were police forces so that you could run to the government to get it to evict trespassers from your land and recover your stolen stuff, there was... seisin: had you actually ploughed the land and reaped the harvest, protected the villages from Irish or Viking raiders, administered justice--or had others done so, or had the jobs been left undone? if you weren't man enough to do the job, it wasn't yours..."]]></description>
<dc:subject>libertarianism history politics conservatism feodality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b6938866ae33/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1">
    <title>The Unwisdom of Elites - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-28T11:55:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Does any of this matter? Why should we be concerned about the effort to shift the blame for bad policies onto the general public?

One answer is simple accountability. People who advocated budget-busting policies during the Bush years shouldn’t be allowed to pass themselves off as deficit hawks; people who praised Ireland as a role model shouldn’t be giving lectures on responsible government.

But the larger answer, I’d argue, is that by making up stories about our current predicament that absolve the people who put us here there, we cut off any chance to learn from the crisis. We need to place the blame where it belongs, to chasten our policy elites. Otherwise, they’ll do even more damage in the years ahead."]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis macroeconomics public-policy Bushism conservatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4c0f122a816a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/05/facts-about-social-security.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View+%28EconomistsView%29%29">
    <title>Economist's View: &quot;Eight Facts about Social Security&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-28T10:58:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/05/facts-about-social-security.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+%28Economist%27s+View+%28EconomistsView%29%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Social Security’s 75-year shortfall is manageable. In fact, it’d be almost completely erased by applying the payroll tax to income over $106,000. Source (PDF)."]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy conservatism Republicans Social-Security economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e36a7f3931d2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4589/selling_the_idea_of_a_christian_nation:_david_barton's_alternate_intellectual_universe/">
    <title>Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe | Politics | Religion Dispatches</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-27T10:55:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4589/selling_the_idea_of_a_christian_nation:_david_barton's_alternate_intellectual_universe/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I use the term “debate” in quotes because it is fraudulent. Even advocates of the viewpoint of the “godless Constitution” (such as historians Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore) fully understand the religious base of American history. They suggest simply (as Jon Stewart was trying to get at) that the framers rather deliberately excluded religion, not because they sought an exclusion of religion from the public square, but simply to avoid any special privileges for it at the federal level. Eventually, those views were incorporated into state laws through the 14th Amendment, through the pluralization of American life in the twentieth century, and through the epochal court cases of the 1940s through the 1970s.

The Christian Nation “debate” is not really an intellectual contest between legitimate contending viewpoints. Instead, it is a manufactured “controversy” akin to the global warming “debate.” On one side are purveyors of a rich and complex view of the past, including most historians who have written and debated fiercely about the founding era. The “other side” is a group of ideological entrepreneurs who have created an alternate intellectual universe based on a historical fundamentalism. In their drive to create a usable past, they show little respect for the past as a foreign country. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>Christianity conservatism history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug storytelling</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8e624ee52be7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/25/kansas-city-star-tor.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29">
    <title>Kansas City Star: Tornado response shows it's time to re-think the way we run America - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-26T23:06:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/25/kansas-city-star-tor.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Here's the big picture: If the United States is to the point at which helping disaster victims means cutting other needed programs, it's time to rethink the way we're running this country. Today, Americans have the lightest total tax burden they've had since 1958. One result of that low tax burden, and the resulting inadequate federal and state revenue, is that the Federal Emergency Management Agency faces a $3 billion shortfall. And that's before the Joplin bills arrive.

Overly optimistic projections during good times brought us to this point. Pandering politicians agreed to tax cuts that this country could not afford. But that's the past. Going forward, we must be able to agree it is un-American to scramble and bicker over priorities every time nature strikes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism Republicans politics greed disaster it's-not-a-community-when-you-have-no-empathy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/05/your-bullshit-conservative-ideology-is.html">
    <title>The Rude Pundit</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-26T22:29:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/05/your-bullshit-conservative-ideology-is.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["remember: the government giving massive amounts of money to corporations to hire people to do shit is capitalism; the government just hiring people to do shit is socialism"]]></description>
<dc:subject>education conservatism we're-fucked</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/88736/paul-ryan-republicans-medicare-generational-politics">
    <title>Paul Ryan, Republicans, And Generational Politics | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-26T13:34:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/88736/paul-ryan-republicans-medicare-generational-politics</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Ryan plan, in other words, delivers to the older generation exactly what they’ve had all their lives—secure and predictable benefits—and to the next generation, more of what they’ve known—insecurity and risk. It’s hardly the first generational fight the GOP has started. The previous one was just last fall, when they campaigned for Medicare, and against the $500 billion in cuts (mostly by getting rid of the overgenerous subsidies to private insurers in an experimental program) passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. With an off-year electorate that was overwhelmingly older, they could put all their bets on the older side, knowing that seniors would see little benefit from the Affordable Care Act and were naturally worried about any change to the health system they enjoyed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:poormojo conservatism cultural-dynamics culture-war Republicans public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5913de901669/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/watching-conservatives/why-gingrich-matters/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RealityBasedCommunity+%28The+RBC%29">
    <title>Why Gingrich Matters « The Reality-Based Community</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-26T11:47:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/watching-conservatives/why-gingrich-matters/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RealityBasedCommunity+%28The+RBC%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gingrichism is the philosophy that all means short of illegality are fair game in the struggle for political power.  He came to the fore in the House minority by personal attacks on other members’ patriotism; he stirred up the Republican base with the argument that the Democrats were not merely wrong, but evil and a threat to the Republic.  As Speaker, he destroyed the existing committee structure and bill mark-ups, did away with Congressional institutions to educate members (such as the Office of Technology Assessment or the Administrative Conference of the United States), and centralized power in the leadership.  When he did not get his way with Clinton, he cavalierly shut down the government.  Not cowed by the political disaster that ensued, he used the House’s impeachment power for political purposes and put the House Oversight Committee in the hands of Dan Burton with the express mandate to harass and cripple political opponents.  Gingrich broke institutions not by accident, but on purpose."]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics Gingrichism conservatism love-and-war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:270554096ad9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/18/rick-walker-wants-yo.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29">
    <title>Scott Walker wants you to die alone if you married the wrong person - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-21T19:40:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/18/rick-walker-wants-yo.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is all about "small government" except when he isn't. Case in point: Walker has refused to defend a lawsuit aimed at killing a state law allowing same-sex partners to visit their partners in hospitals. Because, you know, the government should be in charge of who you have with you when you're sick or dying and need comfort, and Scott Walker knows better than you do and wants you to die alone and scared if you have the wrong sexuality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture-war Scott-Walker prejudice conservatism civil-rights</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8bfefe59419a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Scott-Walker"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:prejudice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.correntewire.com/truth_about_confederacy">
    <title>The Truth About the Confederacy | Corrente</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-20T13:09:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.correntewire.com/truth_about_confederacy</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One thing I really would like you to take away from this diary is a basic sense of how the United States, as a self-governing democratic republic, cannot long tolerate oligarchic and aristocratic ideas in its body politic. This is becoming an increasingly urgent issue for us today, because the American conservative movement today is basically a replica of the slavery-defending, anti-free labor, government-hating, insurrection minded, treason-breathing, violently inclined Confederacy. And, I want you to be able to instantly recognize and rebut the false histories that neo-Confederates have created. So, the first material I place before you is an excerpt from an important and emotionally powerful 1995 book, What They Fought For, 1861-1865, a masterful survey and summary of private correspondence from Civil War soldiers and officers, by James M. McPherson."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Civil-War that-Santayana-quote-you-know-the-one conservatism Bushism history cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:09801d587159/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:that-Santayana-quote-you-know-the-one"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/05/george-takei-vs-tennessees-dont-say-gay-bill.html">
    <title>George Takei vs. Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill | clusterflock</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-19T22:21:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/05/george-takei-vs-tennessees-dont-say-gay-bill.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[IT'S OK TO BE TAKEI]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism tolerance culture-war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7abd33b81016/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2011/05/against-the-rally-against-debt.html">
    <title>Stumbling and Mumbling: Against the rally against debt</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-14T13:49:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2011/05/against-the-rally-against-debt.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Which brings me to a paradox. Most of those who are marching today are, I suspect, supporters of the free market. They believe the market, in general, knows better than governments. 

When it comes to government debt, though, they abandon this faith in the market, and expect the government to over-ride its wishes.]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis market-fundamentalism conservatism pensions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0734b3fecb3f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:market-fundamentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pensions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/rich-people-things-jefferson-and-the-culture-war-on-business">
    <title>Rich People Things: Jefferson and the Culture War on Business - The Awl</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-26T10:32:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/rich-people-things-jefferson-and-the-culture-war-on-business</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wealth is no proof of moral character; nor poverty of the want of it.

On the contrary, wealth is often the presumptive evidence of dishonesty; and poverty the negative evidence of innocence. If therefore property, whether little or much, be made a criterion, the means by which that property has been acquired ought to be made a criterion also."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Founding-Fathers foundationalism-and-fundamentalism-sittin-in-a-tree economics history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug conservatism bushism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:66c4b3f2743b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:foundationalism-and-fundamentalism-sittin-in-a-tree"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/re_measuring_epistemic_closure.html">
    <title>Ezra Klein - Re: Measuring epistemic closure</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-29T20:56:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/re_measuring_epistemic_closure.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This strongly suggests that conservatives face epistemic closure, at least on this issue. The more conservatives ‘know,’ the more likely they are to be wrong."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism politics conservatism-by-rote engagement fads-and-fallacies</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0770fa3d472c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism-by-rote"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engagement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fads-and-fallacies"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html">
    <title>Ephphatha Poetry: &quot;Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black&quot; - Tim Wise</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-25T21:21:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>racism conservatism tea-party American-cultural-assumptions politics bigotry thought-experiments</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:02f19bcdca88/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:tea-party"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:American-cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bigotry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:thought-experiments"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7780&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter">
    <title>The BRAD BLOG : CA A.G. FINDS 'NO VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL LAW' IN 'SEVERELY EDITED' ACORN 'PIMP' VIDEOS; RELEASES RAW TAPES FOR FIRST TIME</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-11T14:17:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7780&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nonetheless, the anti-poverty organization of 400,000 low- and middle-income member families in 75 cities was successfully targeted and put out of business by Republicans; the long, concerted smear campaigns intended to do little more than undercut ACORN's successful voter registration drives. Those drives had succeeded in legally registering hundreds of thousands of low- and middle-income voters, many of whom tend to vote Democratic. For that, for enfranchising Americans to participate in their own democracy, the GOP had to put them out of business.

Mission accomplished."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>lawsuit activism fraud Republicans conservatism MSM mainstream-media politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b15a62776ce2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fraud"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/2410/why_won%E2%80%99t_conservatives_call_gay-bashing_a_hate_crime/?page=2">
    <title>Why Won’t Conservatives Call Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime? | Sexuality &amp; Gender | ReligionDispatches</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-07T12:44:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/2410/why_won%E2%80%99t_conservatives_call_gay-bashing_a_hate_crime/?page=2</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And that, I think, is why some Oklahoma legislators have voted to insulate homophobic violence from the “hate crime” label. At least on a subconscious level, I suspect they see a connection between homophobic violence and the beliefs to which they cleave. To call gay-bashing a hate crime would mean they couldn’t merely condemn the gay bashers. They’d also have to condemn themselves, their churches, and the broader cultural forces with which they identify.
My challenge to conservative legislators is this: If you really think your belief system is innocent, then you have no need to protect it in this way. And if you suspect that your belief system is not innocent, then it shouldn’t be protected. Either way, you ought to call a hate crime what it is."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>homophobia equal-rights civil-rights social-norms cultural-assumptions conservatism law regionalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9a53dc352acc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:equal-rights"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:civil-rights"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:law"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/08/lawrence-lessig-scar-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)">
    <title>Lawrence Lessig scares a room of liberals - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-09T14:32:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/08/lawrence-lessig-scar-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There's plenty to argue about here and he presents in black and white some issues that are full of grays, but chances are you won't spend 20 minutes today with a smarter person. It's worth watching and thinking about …"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>openness open-access copyright intellectual-property politics conservatism rights lessig</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:00041ee9dd33/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:open-access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:copyright"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:intellectual-property"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/03/what-broke-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))">
    <title>Economist's View: &quot;What Broke Congress?&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-07T13:27:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/03/what-broke-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I've been trying to think of something to say about this, but haven't come up with anything that hasn't already been said, and I have to go teach for most of the rest of the day so I'll turn it over to you. What do you think of this argument from Bruce Bartlett about why Congress worked better from the 1930s to the 1970s than it does today?:…"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics history Democrats conservatism Watergate American-cultural-assumptions parliamentary-misprision</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b08500fc1470/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.progressivefix.com/the-tea-partys-retreaded-ideas">
    <title>The Tea Party’s Retreaded “Ideas” | Progressive Fix</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-06T17:29:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.progressivefix.com/the-tea-partys-retreaded-ideas</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are often told that the Tea Party Movement represents some sort of disenfranchised “radical middle” in America that rejects both major parties’ inability to get together and solve problems. As the “Contract From America” shows, that’s totally wrong. At least when it comes to policy proposals, these folks are the hard-right wing of the Republican Party, upset that Barry Goldwater’s agenda from 1964 has never been implemented."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Republicans politics via:cshalizi conservatism tea-party extremism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:10ffd9af704c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-14/praying-for-obamas-death/">
    <title>Praying for Obama's Death - Page 1 - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T14:21:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-14/praying-for-obamas-death/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Wingnut circles, it’s known as the “Imprecatory Prayer.” Offered not just from select pulpits, but increasingly expressed through tweets and forwarded via email, this decidedly un-Christian Christian subculture has found its most enthusiastic advocates in a few Obama Derangement Syndrome-afflicted preachers—notably Orange County’s Wiley Drake and Arizona’s Steven L. Anderson."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>polarization conservatism politics Civil-War civil-discourse Christianity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1ab0de0085bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-16/return-of-the-gop-ultra-crazies/">
    <title>Return of the Fright Wing - Page 1 - The Daily Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-19T13:52:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-16/return-of-the-gop-ultra-crazies/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Birchers have tried to rebrand themselves without changing their essential message, with a slick new Web site featuring a multicultural set of children emblazoned with American flags, announcing that they are simply “Standing for Family and Freedom.” But inside, the forums offer support for the 9/11 Truth-associated Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina and tales that “the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ‘collapse of communism’ were not planned and implemented by the Soviet Union’s KGB.” DVDs for sale purport to tell the truth about alleged conservative impostor Newt Gingrich. Even Nelson Mandela is described as “nothing more than a communist, terrorist thug.”"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>John-Birch-Society psychoceramics politics conservatism polarization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:28d8fbac726d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/news/politics/63662/">
    <title>Kurt Andersen on Why American Democracy Has Gotten Too Democratic -- New York Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-10T15:34:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/news/politics/63662/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But the tea-party citizens are under the misapprehension that democratic governing is supposed to be the same as democratic discourse, that elected officials are virtuous to the extent that they too default to unbudging, sky-is-falling recalcitrance and refusal. And the elected officials, as never before, are indulging that populist fantasy.

Just as the founders feared, American democracy has gotten way too democratic."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics American-cultural-assumptions democracy constitution tea-party conservatism populism public-policy somebody-actually-needs-to-better-than-somebody-else</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:09ab724b432c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:American-cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:constitution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:tea-party"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:populism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:somebody-actually-needs-to-better-than-somebody-else"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://godsownparty.com/blog/2010/01/biblical-gunsights-forced-to-look-down-gods-barrel/">
    <title>Biblical Gunsights…Forced to Look Down God’s Barrel | God's Own Party?</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-24T14:29:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://godsownparty.com/blog/2010/01/biblical-gunsights-forced-to-look-down-gods-barrel/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Finally, the senior NCO said that the private’s rifle was also something else; that because of the biblical quote on the ACOG gunsight it had been “spiritually transformed into the Fire Arm of Jesus Christ” and that we would be expected to kill every “haji” we could find with it. He said that if we were to run out of ammo, then the rifle would become the “spiritually transformed club of Jesus Christ” and that we should “bust open the head of every haji we find with it.’ “He said that Uncle Sam had seen fit not to give us a “pussy ‘Jewzzi’ (combination of the word ‘Jew’ and Israeli made weapon ‘Uzi’) but the “fire arm of Jesus Christ” and made specific mention of the biblical quotes on our gunsights. He said that the enemy no doubt had quotes from the Koran on their guns but that “our Lord is bigger than theirs because theirs is a fraud and an idol”."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fundamentalism religion Civil-War conservatism class-wars culture-war Christianity Bushism another-reason-why-rich-upper-kids-should-be-drafted</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4150d8be3b2c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Civil-War"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:class-wars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:culture-war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Christianity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Bushism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:another-reason-why-rich-upper-kids-should-be-drafted"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/the-insincere-center/">
    <title>The insincere center - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-25T22:15:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/the-insincere-center/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than that, it represents a rejection of the view that the solution for all problems is to cut some taxes and remove some regulations. In that sense, what’s happening now, for all the disappointment it represents for progressives, is a historic moment.

And let’s also not fail to take note of those who had a chance to join in this historic moment, and punted."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy healthcare politics economics progressive conservatism reform</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4d45d36de981/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:healthcare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:progressive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/11/judge-napolitano-does-beck-one-better.html">
    <title>Orcinus</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-14T16:37:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/11/judge-napolitano-does-beck-one-better.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I can't tell you how bizarre it is to see arguments I used to hear coming from the mouths of Montana Freemen like LeRoy Schweitzer in the 1990s -- arguments that led to him embarking on an 81-day armed standoff with federal authorities, and resulting in him spending the rest of his natural life in a federal prison -- coming from supposedly mainstream talk-show hosts on Fox News only 13 years later."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>constitionalism Civil-War politics extremism culture-war bushism conservatism Fox-News secessionism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9aee1711a3b2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Civil-War"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:extremism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:culture-war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bushism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Fox-News"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:secessionism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theory/the_paranoid_mentality/the_paranoid_style.html">
    <title>The Paranoid Style in American Politics</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-13T12:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theory/the_paranoid_mentality/the_paranoid_style.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["    The higher paranoid scholarship is nothing if not coherent—in fact the paranoid mind is far more coherent than the real world. It is nothing if not scholarly in technique. McCarthy’s 96-page pamphlet, McCarthyism, contains no less than 313 footnote references, and Mr. Welch’s incredible assault on Eisenhower, The Politician, has one hundred pages of bibliography and notes. The entire right-wing movement of our time is a parade of experts, study groups, monographs, footnotes, and bibliographies. Sometimes the right-wing striving for scholarly depth and an inclusive world view has startling consequences: Mr. Welch, for example, has charged that the popularity of Arnold Toynbee’s historical work is the consequence of a plot on the part of Fabians, “Labour party bosses in England,” and various members of the Anglo-American “liberal establishment” to overshadow the much more truthful and illuminating work of Oswald Spengler."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:jbdelong history context digitization politics conspiracy-theories fascism conservatism psychology cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1b126e938d52/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:context"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conspiracy-theories"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/11/paul-krugman-paranoia-strikes-deep.html">
    <title>Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Paranoia Strikes Deep</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-09T12:49:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/11/paul-krugman-paranoia-strikes-deep.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.
The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Civil-War fundamentalism conservatism politics culture-clash culture-war</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:815030607b88/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fundamentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:culture-war"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/2009/11/boone-were-only-white-people-here.html">
    <title>Deus Ex Malcontent: &quot;Boone, We're the Only White People Here&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-05T21:54:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/2009/11/boone-were-only-white-people-here.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And now, not surprisingly, they refer to him and his family as insects -- "unwelcome creatures" infesting the White House that require quick and absolute extermination so that the natural order of things can be restored. 

Newsmax should be wary of printing this kind of crap right now, given that just a few weeks ago they rushed, uncharacteristically red-faced, to take down a post which seemed to advocate a military coup against the president of the United States. I'd have to assume its only Pat Boone's status as a walking punchline that's leading them to leave his own bit of eliminationist wishful thinking up on their site for the moment. Regardless of who says it, though, it's wrong to beat the drum this loudly against a sitting president, to show the office -- not simply the man and his family, but the office -- so little respect. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Civil-War politics conservatism discourse extremism extreme-values-are-no-longer-the-end-of-the-distribution</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:03cc7dc80ff6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:extreme-values-are-no-longer-the-end-of-the-distribution"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.openleft.com/diary/14535/on-being-hated-in-a-nation-of-assholes">
    <title>Open Left:: On Being Hated In a Nation of Assholes</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-05T22:58:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.openleft.com/diary/14535/on-being-hated-in-a-nation-of-assholes</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For me personally, if I had to predict, I'd guess that this escalation will ultimately get me out of the writing/blogging/activism game at some point in the future. Ultimately, enough gray hair, chest pain, and hurt feelings just gets tiresome - and dangerous to one's health. But my personal decisions are not really important to anyone other than me and my family. What's significant in the broader sense, I think, is the overall trend and what it means for our country.

I'll put it bluntly: We are becoming a nation of haters - a nation, really, of assholes, or at least dominated by assholes. And sure, maybe we've always been that way - but what's different is that it's become almost impossible to pretend otherwise. There's no more delusions, no more fantasies. Despising one another and ignoring the substance of issues has become the defining mark of Americanness in the 21st century - and that's a tragedy."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>blogging conservatism civil-discourse politics polarization decency</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:436c6f0eae9d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/05/face-of-naked-eliminationism.html">
    <title>Orcinus</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-11T11:51:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/05/face-of-naked-eliminationism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These are the kind of people that the DHS was trying to warn about. But of course, we couldn't have a rational conversation about it -- because evidently too many conservatives see themselves when we talk about right-wing extremists. And that may be our biggest problem of all."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>terrorism crime eliminationism politics polarization conservatism big-tent-fail</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bed0b90e7138/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:crime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:eliminationism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:big-tent-fail"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.positiveliberty.com/2009/04/18th-century-american-orthodoxy.html">
    <title>Positive Liberty » 18th Century American Orthodoxy</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-05T13:53:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.positiveliberty.com/2009/04/18th-century-american-orthodoxy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That Wilson regarded “reason and the senses” so highly that he thought the Bible could not “supercede” the findings of such demonstrates that his political-theology merits the label “rationalism.”"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>history religion United-States Founding-Fathers common-misconceptions conservatism rationalism facts</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d6930cf3afd5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:United-States"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Founding-Fathers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:common-misconceptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rationalism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/wunderkind.php">
    <title>Wunderkind - Ta-Nehisi Coates</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-15T13:02:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/wunderkind.php</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you're a conservative and you care about this kid, you don't give him a public forum. You give him your card, and you take his e-mails. You give him a list of books that he needs to read. Then when you see him, you quiz him on those books. You tell him that you're glad he showed the initiative to write and publish himself, but his thesis is actually banal. That if he's going to play in the big leagues, he should expect to get hit and prepare himself thusly. You warn him away from sideshows, and teach him to pride hearing over being heard. You teach him that these are his weapons and his shield in the great war of ideas."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics conservatism liberalism education cultural-norms children self-image self-criticism Republicans</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7bd3dc789689/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2169744/pagenum/all">
    <title>The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes - By Eric Rauchway - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T14:10:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2169744/pagenum/all</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But for Shlaes, as for the Liberty Leaguers, government isn't big unless it restricts big business; then big government is bad."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:tsuomela history economics culture-war New-Deal politics Bushism conservatism economic-crisis</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6499dc2fb646/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:New-Deal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dontbuyfrombigots.com/">
    <title>Don't Buy From Bigots</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-08T22:16:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dontbuyfrombigots.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These businesses have the right to support whatever ballot measures they want, but fair-minded citizens of all sexual orientations also have the right to take their money elsewhere and not patronize businesses that support bigotry.  This site is not a witch-hunt but is a tool intended to help people make informed decisions when they shop for products and services.  This site hopes to overcome some of the limitations of existing Prop 8 donor databases on the web and in time hopes to become a useful repository of all companies in the U.S. with anti-gay policies.
 
Using publicly available information from the California Secretary of State’s website, DontBuyFromBigots.com strives to be the most comprehensive business-specific listing of donors to Prop 8.  This site is a work in progress created and maintained in the spare time of one person, so forgive the spartan appearance.  Contact me if you want to help improve the website."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:nelson boycott politics conservatism bigotry prejudice activism transparency</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/scienceandreligion/885/creationism_makes_its_mark/">
    <title>Creationism Makes Its Mark | Science &amp; Religion | ReligionDispatches</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-07T13:17:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/scienceandreligion/885/creationism_makes_its_mark/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After Freshwater took his side public, Jenifer said she and her husband were worried Freshwater wouldn’t face disciplinary action. In June, they filed a lawsuit against Freshwater and the district for violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by permitting religion to be taught in class, and for failing to protect their son. Federal law allows such civil liberties cases to be filed anonymously. Freshwater has filed a countersuit, citing defamation of character."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion creationism conservatism academia pedagogy social-anthropology the-American-disease</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bd8bd950fcfd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.positiveliberty.com/2009/01/american-was-founded-to-be-a-religious-not-a-christian-or-a-secular-nation.html">
    <title>Positive Liberty » American Was Founded to be A Religious Not a Christian or a Secular Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-07T12:31:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.positiveliberty.com/2009/01/american-was-founded-to-be-a-religious-not-a-christian-or-a-secular-nation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now, I won’t try to defend the idea that the Founders included Satanists in their vision for “religion in general.” But the following is a list of “religions” which they believed were “sound” and valid ways to God: Orthodox or unorthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, certain forms of Deism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Native American spirituality and pagan Greco-Romanism. Putting them together, you certainly get “religion in general” not “Christianity in particular.”"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Christianity religion American history Constitution separation revisionism Bushism conservatism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ebcd6933b763/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/do-ads-work.html">
    <title>Seth's Blog: Do ads work?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-03T23:17:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/do-ads-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The time-tested response is that you're not sure, that ads are risky, that you can't tell. And for some sorts of products and some sorts of ads, you'll get no argument from me.

Digital ads are different (or they should be). You should know cost per click and revenue per click and be able to make a smart guess about lifetime value of a click. And if that's positive, buy, buy, buy.

And if you don't know those things, why are you buying digital ads?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>advertising online marketing management strategy conservatism received-wisdom web2.0</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:42784e592972/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/12/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-part-ii.html">
    <title>Positive Liberty » The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same, Part II</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-28T21:43:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/12/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-part-ii.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Understanding this dynamic — that Americans were divided over how properly to understand “Christianity” — is essential for understanding the political theological problem of the American Founding. The Founders solved it by taking Trinitarian Christianity out of politics and replacing it with “religion” in general, or some more generic kind of “Christianity” that would include basically anything that terms itself “Christianity,” without having to meet any kind of theological test. Hence are the Mormons Christian? Yes. Why? Because they call themselves Christian. That’s what “Americanism” as the Founding Fathers delivered it to us is all about. That the Mormons didn’t exist during the Founding is irrelevant to my point. Substitute for “Mormons” Arians, Socinians, theological Universalists, and the logic stands."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion Founding-Fathers conservatism politics Christianity tribalism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8ea5cba2ee4d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/888/evangelicals_fire_the_future:_rich_cizik%E2%80%99s_resignation/">
    <title>Evangelicals Fire the Future: Rich Cizik’s Resignation | Religious Right | ReligionDispatches</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-23T13:54:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/888/evangelicals_fire_the_future:_rich_cizik%E2%80%99s_resignation/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Evangelical leaders are only beginning to understand this new dynamic and to account for the damage that has been done to the image of Christianity by the politics of division that has been practiced by the Christian Right over the last few decades. In his recent book, Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity, David Kinnaman, the young president of the Barna Group, found that “Christianity has an image problem” among America’s youth (16- to 29-year-olds)."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-norms culture-war conservatism evangelism politics polarization demographics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:224a3afd32da/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,1009632.story">
    <title>The GOP's McCarthy gene - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-01T13:38:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,1009632.story</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But if McCarthy had been vanquished -- he died three years later of cirrhosis from drinking -- McCarthyism was only just beginning. McCarthyism is usually considered a virulent form of Red-baiting and character assassination. But it is much more than that. As historian Richard Hofstadter described it in his famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," McCarthyism is a way to build support by playing on the anxieties of Americans, actively convincing them of danger and conspiracy even where these don't exist."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>history politics conservatism Bushism McCarthyism Republicans campaign</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:22a9f2a1b71f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/whining-for-honor-by-digby-paul-waldman.html">
    <title>Digby: Conservative &quot;Honor&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-28T21:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/whining-for-honor-by-digby-paul-waldman.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is an important insight as we look at right wing victimology --- it's based upon old fashioned notions of honor that still characterizes certain corners of southern culture, but which has been incorporated into American conservative thinking at large as it adopted these regional folkways as its tribal norms. (The book Southern Honor by Bertram Wyatt Brown explains the whole "honor" mystique in great depth and it's probably as good a guide to the victimization reflex as anything.)"
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<dc:subject>via:jbdelong conservatism Bushism right-wing cultural-norms mythology polarization politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:04124ae25eb8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.steamthing.com/2008/11/a-big-question-about-the-templeton-foundation.html">
    <title>Steamboats Are Ruining Everything: A big question about the Templeton Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-24T13:09:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.steamthing.com/2008/11/a-big-question-about-the-templeton-foundation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I'd be curious to know how you folks at the Templeton Foundation reconcile the high rhetoric displayed here with the rather low and brutal practice of taking a civil right away from a minority group."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-activism conservatism religion science Christianity Templeton boycott</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b7b7da434bed/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://unconformities.blogspot.com/2008/11/marriage-gay-or-otherwise.html">
    <title>Angular Unconformities: Marriage, gay or otherwise</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-22T23:10:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unconformities.blogspot.com/2008/11/marriage-gay-or-otherwise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[will try
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics conservatism gay-marriage civil-rights prejudice table-turning advice amusing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:022e398aeb0f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2008/02/like-sins-through-hourglass.html">
    <title>d r i f t g l a s s: Like Sins Through the Hourglass…</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-04T12:52:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2008/02/like-sins-through-hourglass.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Less Evil Stoopid Please!"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics government censorship sex conservatism schadenfreude</dc:subject>
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