| Mar 5, 2012 | Economy / BusinessMy good job Has flown away; Lost it to N- A-F-T-A. After years of debate and delay, Congress finally passed those free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. There go 159,000 more jobs that we’re likely to lose to Seoul after the Korean deal...
| Dec 26, 2011 | Peace / SecurityNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il consolidated communist rule. Czech leader Vaclav fought against corrupt communists. Yet they had some things in common, besides dying a week before Christmas. They both abandoned careers in the arts to become reluctant politicians, and...
| Nov 29, 2010 | Peace / SecurityNorth Korea keeps its word, at least on the nuclear front. Pyongyang is building a light-water reactor (to eventually produce plutonium) and has launched a pilot uranium enrichment program with 2,000 centrifuges–the tools for nuclear bomb-making, according to...
