Congress is close to passing an extensive financial services bill that began as an attempt to punish Wall Street but has morphed into a bill that hurts everyone, as it restricts the wealth creation of the financial markets.

South Korea has become the home of freedom in the peninsula. Now the task is to extend that freedom to the North.

The South Korean government seems indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of North Koreans who have escaped the Kim Jong Il regime.