The multinational corporation that Michael Moore thinks is destroying America is providing a commendable national service: “every veteran who wants a job” will reportedly have one at Wal-Mart. The NYT reports: The announcement, to be made in a speech in New York by William S. Simon, the president and chief executive of Wal-Mart U.S., represents […]

Shell-shocked California conservatives are trying to resurrect the GOP, but their efforts are still falling short. The libertarian-leaning Orange County Register has an editorial suggesting ways in which Republicans can become relevant again: On these pages, we’ve argued that, instead of becoming more liberal – a strategy that rarely gets politicians elected anyway – the […]

Either Egyptian President Morsi is a vicious hater or a totally unprincipled demagogue. Possibly both. The trouble is that nobody can be a democratically elected president of Egypt who isn’t at least one of these things.First noticed by Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic and then eventually picked up by the NY Times and other mainstream outlets, […]

China has alienated public opinion across the region in recent years—partly because of government decisions but also as a result of its growing economic presence and power. You know it’s gotten serious when even the Singaporeans hate you. As Patrick Barta reports in the WSJ: In tightly controlled Singapore . . . a spate of […]

A 75-year-old mathematical tool, developed by American engineer Frank Benford, is calling China a liar, as Bloomberg reports:  A mathematical tool devised by an American physicist in the 1930s underscores doubts about the quality and reliability of Chinese economic data …The results are based on “Benford’s Law,” which holds that in any series of numbers, certain […]

With the election behind us, is the MSM finally beginning to scrutinize Obama’s foreign policy? The New York Times blasted President Obama’s North Africa policy yesterday, and the Washington Post also gave a similar treatment to the failed “reset” policy with Russia.The piece argues that the failure of the reset policy undermines not only the U.S.-Russia […]

We only started hearing about computer viruses like Stuxnet and Flame in the past year or so, but serious state-sponsored cyber-spooking has been around for quite a bit longer. A Russian security firm announced today that a virus called Red October has been sucking up sensitive and classified information since 2007. The BBC has the […]

President Obama’s re-election campaign received a major boost as brown jobs helped rekindle the economy in states like Ohio, but his administration has fought the brown jobs machine almost every step of the way. The federal permitting system for drilling, for example, now takes twice as long as it did in 2005 and more than […]

Euphoria over the energy revolution is continuing to reach the mainstream. Aviezer Tucker has penned an excellent essay in Foreign Affairs arguing that the discovery of alternative energy sources from the U.S. to Poland to India is making the 21st century a better and safer place: We are moving away from a world dominated by […]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin predicted last year that his company’s autonomous cars would be fully operational within five years, but, as the NYT points out, cars with some self-driving functions are already here: Someday soon, few drivers will have to worry about car crashes and collisions, whether on congested roads or on empty highways, technology companies and […]