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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 […]

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 […]