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		<title>Yet another dialogue with Libertarians</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=402458</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following is the beginning of an exchange on a libertarian&#8217;s Facebook page, with the first comment being his status update. It continued, as these exchanges often do, with my repeated suggestion that we step back from our substantive certainties and agree to base our discourse on the premise that we&#8217;re all fallible, and if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mathematics of Conflict and Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401946</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This essay is an elaboration of Collective Action (and Time Horizon) Problems). Imagine that I offered each person in a group the following deal: You can agree to give me $30, and in return I’ll give $10 to each and every person in the group, including you. I’ll give the $10 to everyone, whether they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Raise or Lower the Level of Discourse</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401904</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many on-line debates, a well-informed and well-reasoned argument is met with the greatest scorn, often in the form of responses decrying the arrogance of the person making the argument. These responses are almost always devoid of substance, a string of z&#8217;s or a sarcastic announcement that the opponent obviously isn&#8217;t intelligent enough to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Threshold</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401868</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[basal ganglia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us are motivated by the desire to affect the world in a positive way. Everyone engaged in political activities on any level believes in their ability, working with others, to affect people’s beliefs and actions, at least on the margins. And, indeed, the fact that change is constant, and that some of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Far-Right Is On The Wrong Side Of Reason, Morality, Humanity and History</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401657</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: The Economy. 1) Every modern, prosperous, developed nation on Earth, without one single exception, has a large administrative infrastructure and has had a large administrative infrastructure in place since prior to participating in the historically unprecedented post-WWII expansion in the production of prosperity. Every single nation on Earth that lacks a large administrative infrastructure is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Liberal Response to the Far-Right</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401603</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my most recent comment on the conservative gun-idolater thread that has inspired many of my recent posts, in response to the somewhat correct allegation that it has devolved into nothing more than a shouting match: A shouting match between fact and reason, clearly stated, on the one hand, and blind fanatical dogma, repeated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwise Certainty, Counterproductive Vitriol, and Wise and Functional Humility</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401572</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Facebook thread condemning President Obama for signing the Continuing Resolution with a rider protecting Monsanto from law suits, my defense of the President (pointing out that he really had to sign the CR and that all bills that come to his desk have unsavory riders in them) received some vitriolic responses from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Real Constitution Please Stand Up?</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401555</link>
		<comments>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401555#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response to a Facebook commenter who insisted that legislators are no longer obeying the dictates of the Constitution: First, we have to start with a clearer understanding of the real nature and purpose of the US Constitution. Despite right-wing claims to the contrary, it’s purpose was not primarily “to limit the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortresses of Delusions</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401495</link>
		<comments>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401495#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights and Responsibilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an unedited and unabridged (other than to exclude the names of the participants) exchange that I engaged in on Facebook this morning. I share it because I think it illustrates the underlying dilemma in public discourse, that rational arguments cannot penetrate the fortifications of entrenched dogmatic displacements of reality. In this case, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Badgered Hickenlooper Loses His Cool</title>
		<link>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401435</link>
		<comments>http://coloradoconfluence.com/?p=401435#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Harvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 9News interview of Governor Hickenlooper (CO) is likely to excite a lot of commentary and speculation (and already has begun to), especially under the circumstances. I think it&#8217;s important to view it in context: Hickenlooper&#8217;s friend and cabinet member was just murdered by, as it turns out, the son of an old friend of [...]]]></description>
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