Incredibly columnist Paul Krugman recently pointed to California as a blue state governance success.

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Their work took on a decidedly surreal edge with the Clangers, pink creatures with pointed noses who lived on a blue moon with a friendly soup dragon, and spoke in whistles.

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Mr. Fertig pointed to the recent days' rally, which saw the blue-chip Dow rise to a six-week high.

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Along the lakes that calm Berlin, driving east toward the Pergamon Museum that houses the cobalt blue mosaic Gates of Babylon and the Neues Museum with its bust of Nefertiti, the taxi driver pointed out the markings of the former Wall at various points along the way.

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