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	<description>The adventures of a Cajun in Cascadia</description>
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		<title>The invisible hand of Adam Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leo Linbeck III (aka L3) theorizes, via the Belmont Club, about the recent roller coaster ride the oil markets have taken.
Oil troubled waters 2
All of this goes back to the mortgage debacle, in which Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a big new home. Eased underwriting standards drove up home values (money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/12/17/the-invisible-hand-of-adam-smith/</link>
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		<title>The inconvenient professor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always thought it was egotistical to believe climate change is anthropogenic.  This presentation by Professor Ian Plimer affirms it for me.
Human-induced Climate Change:  A Load of Hot Air  

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		<title>Phoney-baloney jobs - harumph!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Gillespie writes at Hit &#038; Run: We&#8217;ve Got Phoney-Baloney Jobs Up the Ying-Yang, Say America&#8217;s Mayors! All We Need Is the Money To Pay For Them!
When the history of this awful moment of bailout hysteria is written, there&#8217;ll be a chapter or 20 on the complete bogosity of what might call &#8220;the infrastructure flim-flam&#8221;—the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/12/09/phoney-baloney-jobs-harumph/</link>
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		<title>Will Rangle step down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports on Representative Charles Rangel&#8217;s expanding tax problems:

Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in several rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.
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Rent laws in New York City and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/24/will-rangle-step-down/</link>
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		<title>A lesson on wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the discussion of the NIC 2025 Project Leo Linbeck III gives a lesson on the creation of wealth in the comments of a post at the Belmont Club.
So, I haven’t read the entire report, and I doubt I will. Why? I started reading the executive summary, and on the first page, I read this:
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/22/a-lesson-on-wealth/</link>
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		<title>Juxtaposition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the PeoplesARTCoOP:
The obliviation of antediluvian excrescences postulates a didactic promorphistic inclusionary ascensional sine qua non, perhaps rectifying the recidivisual deconcurrence of reductive influences, remaining not ineffectual per se though expressing a certain contradissonance trending towards mass disembarkation. We seek to reconfirm the aforementioned while attaining a hitherto unforeseen unknowability. 

I know those guys; they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/14/juxtaposition/</link>
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		<title>Debating climate change and the next ice age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was Earth Headed for the Mother of All Ice Ages Before Global Warming?
Before we humans came along with our Industrial Revolution and our greenhouse gases, the earth was hurtling towards an intense ice age that could have covered much of the northern hemisphere with deep ice sheets as soon as 10,000 years from now, according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/14/debating-climate-change-and-the-next-ice-age/</link>
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		<title>Intelligence Policy - not much will change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports: Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact.  &#8220;President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party.&#8221;

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		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/12/intelligence-policy-not-much-will-change/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Trading and Moral Hazard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The causes of the current financial crisis are complicated, just wait until we start trading carbon.  Lawrence Solomon writes about risk in the carbon allowance trading markets:
The ‘marketplace’ for carbon allowances will be one in which both supply and demand are set by governments, in which intense corporate lobbying for changes to both supply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/09/carbon-trading-and-moral-hazard/</link>
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		<title>Conscription</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia defines conscription as &#8220;a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority.&#8221;
This is from President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s official transition web site (This is a link to the original, cached version.  See the update comment thread, below.):
Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cascajun.arabie.org/2008/11/07/conscription/</link>
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