Mark Lee

Retired History teacher and purveyor of random and obscure quotes.

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@DavidAFrench 1901: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, "When is a war not a war? When it is carried on by methods of barbarism . . . ' Different time and context but still.

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@TheFP @nfergus Inskip’s dilemma in 1938-9.

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@JohnKasich A close reading of the constitution does not point to coequal but article one supremacy.

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@DavidAFrench It strikes me that although the NFL has a heritage, it is free to determine its own vision despite what some think it is supposed to be. Like most businesses, they may be seeking to add viewers and to calculate whether they will lose more than they gain.

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@JonahDispatch Sorry to hear this.

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@philvischer MAGA Christians are too busy swooning over Trump's promise to rededicate the US as one nation under God on May 17th.

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@neontaster Indeed, it was something of a master class in analysis.

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@whignewtons Process requires patience. When you find creators who value process, you find someone worth following.

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@tomfriedman Haven’t read it yet but I tweeted out my remembrance of you saying this about another conflict. Although I misremembered the exact phrase.

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Remember when Thomas Friedman reminded us of the old saying, ‘You break it, you buy it.’

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@whignewtons Humm, 'a process girl in an outcome world' should be a Billy Joel song. Great line.

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@whignewtons Pre-ordered!

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@whignewtons It would have been good to see signs saying, ‘Congress, do your job!’

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“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace.

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@JonahDispatch Good points.

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My column

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@FaceTheNation @margbrennan Claim that most get Halloween costumes at Home Depot was weird.

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@GovChristie Great show. @whignewtons is always a great additiion to any panel. I'm old enough to have viewed. F. Freindly, The Consititution that delicate balance. We need more of this

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@ThisWeekABC Historic episode.