Sixty-eight years ago this morning, young and not so young men from across the free world splashed ashore or descended from the sky in the final assault on Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.”  It was their blood, and that of the millions of Soviet citizens fighting and dying in the east, that rescued the world from Nazi […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Although it may surprise readers of the New York Times, Wisconsin is not the only state going to the polls today. Nor is the fate of Scott Walker the only battle in the War on Blue. Six other states also vote today, and two local ballot measures in California are especially worth following.The cities of […]

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee reached a peak today as a carriage procession carried the royal family from Westminster to Buckingham Palace, where the Royal Air Force flew over amid celebratory rounds of rifle fire from the ground.Back in 1940, Elizabeth was a young princess when it was another air force that was flying over Buckingham […]