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Tim, just a quick comment to say how much I appreciate your columns. This is mostly because your ideas and comments agree pretty much exactly with my thoughts, and therefore you are an intelligent, erudite (and presumably handsome) man. Please carry on the great work! I hope and pray that people who have the ability to mess up my life with their policies read them and pay attention. Would be interested to see you and Lewis Page get together and look at defense spending some day.