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		<title>Can Voters Be That Irrational?</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/31/can-voters-be-that-irrational/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Many Florida Republicans sought a candidate who they thought could defeat President Barack Obama&#8221;, writes the Wall Street Journal tonight (on.wsj.com/yem4M5), &#8220;with significantly more voters who cited that as their top priority opting for Mr. Romney, according to exit polls.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/31/can-voters-be-that-irrational/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Man in the Moon</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/27/the-man-in-the-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Newt Gingrich&#8217;s proposal for a moon colony, what could be better than quoting Lysander Spooner (http://lysanderspooner.org/node/64) on a related topic: &#8220;Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/27/the-man-in-the-moon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Monsters: A Very Relevant Quote</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/19/fighting-monsters-a-very-relevant-quote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.&#8221; &#8212; Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1966 [1886]), p. 89.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nation</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/142/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In a shared bit of rhetoric and ideology, National Socialism, Fascism, and the New Deal all depicted their rise to power as the concrete realization of the idea of the nation, which until then had been uninformed, halfhearted, and theoretical.” &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/142/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Could FDR&#8217;s Book Have Been Written by a Nazi?</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/could-fdrs-book-have-been-written-by-a-nazi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“On May 11, 1933, the main Nazi newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, offered its commentary in an article with the headline ‘Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.’ &#8230; ‘If not always in the same words,’ the paper wrote, ‘[Roosevelt], too, demands that collective &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/could-fdrs-book-have-been-written-by-a-nazi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Three New Deals</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/the-three-new-deals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The New Deal, Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany all profited from the illusion of the nation as an egalitarian community whose members looked out for one’s another welfare under the watchful eyes of a strong leader.” &#8212; Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/14/the-three-new-deals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul: A Great Victory in New Hampshire</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/10/ron-paul-a-great-victory-in-new-hampshire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 80% of the New Hampshire precincts in, Ron Paul in assured of nearly a quarter of the vote and a solid second place. It is a great victory for liberty or, should I say, the great beginning of a &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/10/ron-paul-a-great-victory-in-new-hampshire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Proliferation of Police</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/09/the-proliferation-of-police/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last half of the 18th century, my estimate is that there were 222 inhabitants per police personnel in Paris. In American cities of 1,000,000 inhabitants or more, the 2009 number is roughly the same: 232 inhabitants per police &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/09/the-proliferation-of-police/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Double Jeopardy and You</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/09/double-jeopardy-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist http://econ.st/tyzwbn One could have thought that the old legal rule against double jeopardy would be strengthened as new surveillance technologies (ID papers, computerized databases, and DNA) made prosecution and condemnation easier and less costly. One would have been &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/09/double-jeopardy-and-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bad banks&#8221; and Bad States</title>
		<link>http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/04/bad-banks-and-bad-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Lemieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;bad bank&#8221;, a solution adopted by many governments to solve banking crises, is a bank to which all toxic assets are transferred. It would be nice if a &#8220;bad state&#8221; could be similarly created, to which the bad policies &#8230; <a href="http://pierrelemieux.com/2012/01/04/bad-banks-and-bad-states/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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