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As one more interested in beginnings than endings, this morning I Googled “Joe Miller” before I went to Obama’s Iraq speech and was delighted to see this headline from the Los Angeles Times: “In Alaska, Sen. Murkowski concedes to ‘tea party’ candidate Miller.”

Because history has a tendency to begin again where it ends. As it did in the mid01970s when Howard Cosell interviewed John Lennon at halftime at a football game. At the end he said, “I’ve got to go, John. I’ve got to interview the Gipper.” John Lennon said, “Who’s the Gipper?”

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