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Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Back in the days of the Cold War between the Communist bloc of nations and the Western democracies, the Communists maintained pervasive restrictions around Eastern Europe that were aptly called an “iron curtain,” isolating the people in its bloc from the ideas of the West and physically obstructing their […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Andy Weddington, FairfaxFreeCitizen.com This morning [Sept. 29] I was startled awake at 0300. Since, I’ve watched news — in disgust; worked the puzzle page in USA Today; flipped through some two dozen channels looking for something interesting; finally settled on the Golf Channel half tuned in to a program called ‘Morning […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Marty Simpkins, State News Today c/o Wake Forest Weekly WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Golf legend Arnold Palmer passed away Sunday Sept. 25 at the age of 87. He died at a hospital in Pittsburgh while awaiting cardiac surgery. Palmer was born in Latrobe, Penn. Sept. 10, 1929. He attended Wake Forest […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By William Federer, the American Minute The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien describes man’s insatiable lust for “the Ring of Power”: Always remember Frodo, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. It wants to be found. Power wants to concentrate. In a real sense, George Washington held […]

Special to WorldTribune.com SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook wants you to get out to vote. On Friday, Facebook users in the U.S. who are 18 and up will receive a reminder to register to vote at the top of their News Feed. The voter registration drive, Facebook’s first to roll out nationwide, is tapping the power […]

Special to WorldTribune.com Following is the letter from Rev. Franklin Graham to Commissioner John D. Swofford of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on Sept. 15. Dear Commissioner Swofford, As a lifelong resident of North Carolina and current CEO and president of two organizations employing nearly 1,500 North Carolinians, I am saddened — even outraged — […]

Special to WorldTribune.com 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound […]

Special to WorldTribune.com RUSH: Phyllis Schlafly passed away, the mother of conservatism, if you will. … I remember Phyllis Schlafly was tough. Phyllis Schlafly was demanding. When it came to the principles of conservatism, she harbored no infiltrators. She harbored nobody insincere about it, and she was able to identify those who were trying to […]

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell We keep hearing that “black lives matter,” but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly […]

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 […]