Articles

Special to WorldTribune.com By Joe Schaeffer Progressives are expressing anger at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate, objecting to his Wall Street ties and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, among other things. According to some in their ranks, they can add gay baiting […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Black votes matter. If Republicans could get 20 percent of black votes, the Democrats would be ruined. This is highly unlikely, given the approach used by Republicans. However, the point is that Democrats must not only continue to get nine-tenths of black votes, they also need to get a […]

Special to WorldTribune.com SILVER SPRING, Maryland – The United States government is afraid to work directly with persecuted Iraqi and Syrian Christians because it doesn’t want America to look like a “crusader army,” prominent human rights lawyer and religious freedom advocate Nina Shea said Friday. … Shea, the director of the Washington-based Hudson Institute’s Center […]

Special to WorldTribune.com CHARLOTTE – In the latest controversy over House Bill 2, State Senator Phil Berger released a statement that includes details of a Charlotte woman who alerted police after she said she found a man in a stall next to her engaging in inappropriate sexual activity. Berger said North Carolina courts ruled a […]

Special to WorldTribune.com In a gathering with 900 evangelical pastors and leaders Tuesday, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump promised that he would protect the political speech and religious freedom of pastors and clergy by repealing a longstanding ban on church and nonprofit politicking. … Trump vowed to end a ban enacted in the Johnson Amendment […]

Special to WorldTribune.com RUSH: Okay, stop and think of this. To Obama, to Hillary, to Democrats and the American left, whenever a guy says that he’s a woman, she’s a woman. When a woman says, “No, no, no, I present as a guy,” the left says, “There’s a guy! There’s a guy!” “See the two […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Among the many disturbing signs of our times are conservatives and libertarians of high intelligence and high principles who are advocating government programs that relieve people of the necessity of working to provide their own livelihoods. Generations ago, both religious people and socialists were agreed on the proposition that […]

Special to WorldTribune.com Kathy Strong … has been honoring a strangers sacrifice, almost her entire life. “When I was a young girl I received a P.O.W. / M.I.A. bracelet from Santa in my Christmas stocking. The bracelet was simply inscribed spec five James Moreland 2/7/68, ” Strong said. The date was the day Green Beret […]

Special to WorldTribune.com Producers of the documentary “The Unknowns,” which releases on Memorial Day, have given us a reminder that the national holiday is not just another day off. “Memorial Day comes around every year, and unless you know someone who was killed fighting for our country it becomes just a nice day off,” producer […]

Special to WorldTribune.com When liberal journalists come out and confess their bias, it’s tempting to say, “The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.” … Writing at the New York Times recently, columnist Nicholas Kristof took that hard first step. The title of his piece says it all: “A Confession of Liberal […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell This is the season of college commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. Two themes seem to dominate commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by the taxpayers or […]

by Special to WorldTribune , May 18, 2016 Target’s shares are plunging in an “increasingly volatile consumer environment,” though the retail giant is denying that the conservative boycott against its transgender bathroom policies is playing a big part. “Shares of the company were off 7.6 percent at $68 as of 4 p.m. trading on Wednesday. […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited — and then disinvited — to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech. Mr. Riley is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and, […]

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION, NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS] Where is NASA’s rover Curiosity going on Mars? Its geographical goals are on the slopes of Mount Sharp, whose peak is seen in the background on the right. A key scientific goal, however, remains to better assess when and where conditions on Mars were once suitable […]

Special to WorldTribune.com The women of the Right are allowed to believe things that the women of the Left are not. They are allowed to believe there is a difference between women and men, female and male, and that those differences are real, not a false cultural construct imposed by a self-interested, manipulative patriarchy. Unlike […]