Martin Longman

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You make it sound like the government in China is rational about Taiwan, or that these issues don't roil Taiwanese…
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Money is speech, is it not? Isn't that the law of the land?   And before that it was still…
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One of his first exposures to Tatum's musical talents came early in his teen years when his father played a…
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I gotta say, I really enjoy Armen Donelian's playing. Guy's a champ.  
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I don't mean to pick on Goldman Sachs in particular. Or even Finance in particular. These gentlemen were housing vultures…
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Most people don't devote a lot of time to politics. We let them vote, though.
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Maybe. More likely he is just insane.  
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It's true that you can't get anyone on the record on this and that the CIA essentially took the blame…
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This is completely wrong. Totally, catastrophically wrong.   The Kennedys authorized and pressured the CIA to solve the Cuba problem…
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That's an ahistorical and glib characterization of the challenge Kennedy and Khrushchev faced in finding a way out.  
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Why don't we ask Alexander Hamilton what the Electoral College was designed to do?   It was desirable that the…
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Without quibbling about any of that or its heart attack seriousness, you really should spend some time gaming out the…
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I don't easily dismiss the potential downside resulting from either choice.  
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Stuart Eric Kaufman is gone and I'm sad. Talk about talent!
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Yep, where we first met!!
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Yes, thanks, Obama. And thank you, too!!  
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An excellent idea, THANK YOU!!
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Okay, but we need to define "destroy," I think. Thanks, man!
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If you're generous, I might even get a much-needed raise.  
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Also, much more anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic in emphasis.  
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