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Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point. That was the day, as is now well known, that Sen. Robert Bennett, who took the conservative position 84 percent of the time over his career, was deemed not conservative enough by fellow Utah Republicans and booted out of the primary. Less well known, but equally ominous, is what happened that same day, 2,500 miles east in Maine. There, the state Republican Party chucked its platform -- a sensible New England mix of free-market economics and conservation -- and adopted...

/begin my translationA Powerful Force of Change Unleashed in N. Korea N. Korea is such a changed country now. It is not the same country I had left two years ago. They say, "Rivers and mountains change after 10 years." However, N. Korea is changing so much in just a year. While the country remains the same, people have been changing dramatically. Seen across Tumen and Yalu River, N. Korean landscape has hardly changed. Crumbling apartments and houses, no cars in the streets except some ox carts making noise while passing. Every hill is denuded to the last tree, making...