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Kimball: A Short, Bracing Video Obama Should See (1)

You know, I had just been wondering what happened to Pat Condell, the British comedian and political commentator who gave give me and my knuckle-dragging, right-wing, politically incorrect friends such pleasure a few years back with his series of scathing videos excoriating … Continue reading

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Kimball: Newton’s First Law of Motion Applied to Political Strategy

Have you ever wondered why political strategists — and by extension, the rest of us — are obsessed by polls? It is not because polls tell them what is going to happen. On the contrary, polls can be notoriously unreliable. … Continue reading

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Kimball: Is this a first?

When the motor of history gets revved up (as it surely is now), it becomes more than commonly difficult to discriminate between the mere static of events rubbing against one another and that appoggiatura that announces the main theme of … Continue reading

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Kimball: The EU – Steady on Its Course from Tragedy to Farce

It was several years ago now that my friend David Pryce-Jones told me about the European Union’s fruit police. Fruit was just the tip of the orchard, so to speak, but the fact that those preposterous bureaucrats in Europe had … Continue reading

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Kimball: Who Is Barack Obama? The Question that Won’t Go Away

So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his … Continue reading

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Kimball: How to lose a war, Afghan desk

What do you think of this little tidbit from the Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is offering to cede some control over nighttime missions into Afghan village homes, U.S. officials say, in a bid to ease tensions with Afghan President Hamid … Continue reading

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Kimball: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Poor House

Two-point-four trillion dollars: $2,400,000,000,000. Take a minute to visualize it. You can’t, you know: it’s simply too big a number. But take a minute to try. Dazzled yet? You should be. Two-point-four trillion dollars: It’s the largest hike of the … Continue reading

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The euro and EUtopia

If you look up “Deutsche Mark” on the internet, you will find an abundance of definitions like this one from Wikipedia: The Deutsche Mark … was the official currency of West Germany (1948–1990) and Germany (1990–2002) until the adoption of … Continue reading

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The secret ingredient

I am happy to see that my friend Peggy Noonan has graduated from being the star-struck cheerleader of Obama to joining the ranks of the disillusioned.  Back in the summer of 2008, when much of the country was swooning over … Continue reading

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