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In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy Seals, the latest event in the War Against Terror, the British are broadening their dragnet to round up terrorists. It’s a move reminiscent of the early days of… Continue Reading →

Jens Weidmann, Bundesbank PresidentPrice stability has been Germany’s new religion since the Second World War. It is the policy that made possible its miraculous economic recovery from the fire bombings and the invasion by Allied troops, most ominously by Russia…. Continue Reading →

Suddenly the Navy Seals burst through the two security gates and the twelve-foot fences. They open fire at 1:10AM local time on a compound 8 times larger than any other house in the neighborhood in the town of Abbottabad forty… Continue Reading →

The London mob has always been feared by monarchs and Prime Ministers alike, nowhere more so than the 1930’s and then again during the Royal Wedding ceremony this past Friday. In the 1930’s Prime Minister Baldwin and Prime Minister Neville… Continue Reading →

The Wall Street Journal extols the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William as being steeped in tradition and fairy-tale-like in its Saturday, April 30 article, “The Traditions Behind Crown, Carriages, And An Historic Abbey”, but on Friday I saw… Continue Reading →

Angela Merkel proudly declared that the euro was Germany’s destiny, but will she be able to persaude her fellow Germans to back an Italian for the most important economic post in the EU? Germans are obsessed with controlling inflation ever… Continue Reading →

The royal wedding on Friday, April 29 is a contemporary echo of the old British Empire, so much talked about and praised by Winston Churchill, that died after World War II. In the Wall Street Journal’s Thursday, April 28 article,… Continue Reading →

Refugees from Libya are crowding into Italy and then migrating to France according to an article in the April 27, 2011 issue of the Wall Street Journal, “France, Italy Seek Tighter Borders.” The French have started to set up check… Continue Reading →

Almost one hundred years ago Lawrence of Arabia was captured and held in Deraa. Just this past weekend Syria sent tanks and armored vehicles into the southern city located along the border with Jordan as it raided homes and deployed… Continue Reading →

The War in Libya may be the first armed conflict in North Africa involving foreigners since World War II when the region saw the likes of Rommel, Montgomery, or “Monty”, and El Alamein, but it continues to provide a playing… Continue Reading →