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Following up on this, allow me to respond to Peter Berkowitz's ridiculous piece in The Wall Street Journal this past Saturday attacking various liberal commentators -- Krugman, Rich, Dionne, and other "[h] ighly educated people" (sarcastically meant) -- for misunderstanding the Tea Party "movement" and essentially getting America wrong.
Michael J.W. Stickings: What the Tea Party is Really All About Michael J.W. Stickings 2010
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Following up on this, allow me to respond to Peter Berkowitz's ridiculous piece in The Wall Street Journal this past Saturday attacking various liberal commentators -- Krugman, Rich, Dionne, and other "[h] ighly educated people" (sarcastically meant) -- for misunderstanding the Tea Party "movement" and essentially getting America wrong.
Michael J.W. Stickings: What the Tea Party is Really All About Michael J.W. Stickings 2010
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[H] ighly recommended for readers interested in biography, popular business, New York State history, and transportation.
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But leave it to clueless Mathews to claim ignorance of a ighly likely outcome that was patently obvious 3 years ago to anyone with a functioning brain.
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Why would “[h]ighly successful male law professors [be] more likely than the general population to have children with criminal records”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » God Forbid That People Should Look at Demographic Data 2007
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_The O.B. _ 'Is Clurk'll do -- it's' ighly important -- you better lemme
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 Various
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The reel fax of the case is, I'm a young man of an ighly cultiwated mind and a very _ink_-wisitive disposition, wich naturally led me to the use of the _pen_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various
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Well, Mum, in the absence of his Lordship, I am sure you'll prove a 'ighly agreerble substitoot!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various
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And I may tell you, sir, 'he added, with stately courtesy,' that, in the opinion of the servants 'hall, your chances are' ighly fancied, -- very 'ighly.
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It is a 'ighly fantastic story, and I don't think he would believe it.'
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