After threatening to incinerate the US, now the Norks are refusing to pick up the phone. Reuters reports on the escalating bluster from Pyongyang: Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said on Wednesday, days after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.It is […]

Here’s one job Americans should be overjoyed to outsource: global imperialist overlord. Historically, the US has shouldered the burden of this charge, making the big investments in foreign mines, energy supplies, and transport networks necessary to keep the liberal global economic system healthy and growing. Needless to say, Uncle Sam ruffled many a local feather in […]

China is making waves again, this time by allegedly firing on a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea. Reuters reports: A statement posted on the Vietnamese government’s website said the trawler was chased away and came under attack from Chinese ships near the Paracel islands on March 20, calling the incident a breach of international […]

If you have young children, or have given some thought to starting a family, the looming specter of paying for your son or daughter’s college tuition 15 or 18 years down the line no doubt keeps you wide awake some nights. You may have considered putting money into a “529 plan”, an investment vehicle designed […]

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held its annual meeting on March 14-16, 2013, in Washington. Widely reported on in the media, its main agenda was fiscal conservatives and social conservatives assuring each other that they could collaborate in reviving the Republican Party despite their different emphases on issues, respectively, north and south of the […]

Gay marriage is coming, like it or not.

One of the most outspoken advocates for the Western effort to rid Libya of the Great Loon is now barred from entering the country…because he is a Jew. The Independent reports (h/t National Review): [French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri] Lévy was a vocal advocate of the French and British-led military intervention which helped to topple the Libyan dictator […]

The left is still in denial about the Democratic machine that ate Detroit. The NYT often laments the plight of public employees but turns a blind eye to the criminals who looted their pension funds. Now The Nation bemoans the austerity measures made by Detroit’s new “emergency manager” without a single word about corruption, the disgrace of its former mayor, or the theft […]

On Wonkblog, Ezra Klein highlights a new implant developed by Swiss scientists that can measure blood chemicals linked to heart attacks and send the result to your phone: Consider how dramatically these devices will change medicine. Right now, the medical industry is fundamentally reactive. Something goes wrong, and we go to them to fix it. This will make medicine […]

Xi Jinping’s first foreign trip as China’s head of state was to Moscow, where he signed a number of energy agreements last Friday. We didn’t make much of it at the time. The two countries have a history of making overtures without following up, and the odds against a true strategic alliance are still long. […]