As manufacturing costs in low-wage Asian countries such as China creep steadily higher, the United States and its neighbors are witnessing the rise of a phenomenon known as “reshoring”: previously outsourced manufacturing jobs coming back to North America.According to a new report by AlixPartners, a global business advisory firm, lower freight costs, improved speed to market, […]

The murder of nine Muslims in western Burma by Buddhist vigilantes—claiming revenge for a Buddhist woman killed by Muslims last week—reveals the toxic difficulties Burma must confront as it attempts to liberalize.There are some poisons for which political liberalization is no antidote: ethnic and religious tensions are rarely dissolved suddenly by the introduction of freedom […]

The American left as we have come to know it suffered a devastating blow in Wisconsin last night. The organized heart of the left gave everything it had to the fight against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: heart, shoe leather, wallet and soul. The left picked this fight, on the issue and in the place of […]

Wisconsin wasn’t the only place in America voting on the blue social model last night, and Wisconsin wasn’t the only place where the blue social model took it on the chin.As reported here yesterday, voters in San Diego and San Jose, California (both among the largest ten cities in the United States) had referendums on […]

It’s been four years since Californians went to the polls to support the construction of a high-speed rail line from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and now they’re asking for a revote. With Governor Jerry Brown pushing to begin construction on the new train, the Huffington Post reports that 55 percent of voters have told […]

Religion has not, or not yet, become an important ingredient of the nastiness in the current presidential campaign. It has been quiet around Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, possibly because he has spouted language that might make Southern Baptists feel comfortable (though it surely makes some other people uncomfortable). Michele Bachmann’s affiliation with the Lutheran Wisconsin Synod […]

There is an energy revolution underway right now, but contrary to the ardent hopes and expectations of the greens, this one is a brown revolution.In Noble County, Ohio, an area where the average annual income is less than $33,000, families are signing exploration leases with energy companies at $4,000 per acre, plus 19 percent royalties […]

Liberals in Russia are becoming disenchanted with the West. Can the romance be rekindled?

The Obama Administration's "pivot to Asia", insofar as it represents a strategic choice, is a mistake. America's geo-economic future, the ultimate font of American power, lies in a bold and far-reaching integration of North America.

The EU isn’t the only big customer launching a boycott against Iran this summer. Joining Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, Turkey is set to become the latest customer to slash imports of Iranian crude.Turkey, fifth on the list of Iran’s top buyers, has vowed to decrease imports of Iranian crude by 20 percent. […]