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Many YouTube commenters were strongly moved by Thomson’s Reaganesque speech, and so was National Review’s Peter Robinson:

While the other contenders are frantically saturating the Iowa airwaves with 30- and 60-second attack ads—Romney is guiltiest, if only because he’s richest—Thompson has sat himself down, looked into a camera, and spoken for a quarter of an hour, calmly and straightforwardly making his case. I myself find this impressive—in a way, moving. Thompson seems to have stepped out of the eighteenth century. He trusts voters to think. And if the comments on YouTube are at all representative, plenty of people agree. …

While we await Mr. York’s next dispatch, take a look at the Thompson video. Politics as, from time to time at least, they really ought to be.

If Fred Thompson keeps speaking like this, I think he has a good chance of winning the GOP nomination.

2:16 video

A response to I’ve Got a Crush on Obama and its successors.

Hat tip to Logan Murphy.

1:14 video

Reuters reports on the International epidemic of laughter resulting from the embarrassment of one of the Chavez regime’s revolutionaries observed to be a luxury consumer while in the midst of a rant against Capitalism.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Pedro Carreño was momentarily at a loss for words when a journalist interrupted his speech and asked if it was not contradictory to criticize capitalism while wearing Gucci shoes and a tie made by Parisian luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton.

“I don’t, uh … I … of course,” stammered Carreño on Tuesday before regaining his composure. “It’s not contradictory because I would like Venezuela to produce all this so I could buy stuff produced here instead of 95 percent of what we consume being imported.”

0:30 video

A political attack ad which makes some very sound points from a candidate who has long enjoyed a good deal of support from certain elements of the Right.

0:56 video

Hat tip to Daniel Lowenstein.

The Richter Scales celebrate capitalism Silicon Valley-style in this 2:45 music video

Hat tip to Dominique Poirier.

Russian police, lying in ambush, spring out of hiding to capture two criminals at the door of an apartment. One of them was carrying a very interesting pistol. It looks like a homemade silenced, single-shot assassination weapon.

1:46 video from Russian television.

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11/26 UPDATE: See Dominique Poirier’s informative comment.

Bob Hope’s best movie line.

0:24 video

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I’ve linked this one before, but so what?

Merle Hazzard meets Arthur Laffer and sings.

4:30 video

Hat tip to the New York Times.

John McCain: “That’s an excellent question.”

1:13 video

Hat tip to John Amato, who is shocked… shocked.

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11/16: I just noticed that I had overlooked the link to “John Amato” above. Apologies to readers, and to Mr. Amato.

2:00 video — Hmm, this video has disappeared from Google!

Well, OK, it can still be found here: link

The Edwards campaign takes a well-aimed shot at Hillary.

1:23 video