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UN guidelines require at least one hour outdoors daily for inmates; Kids getting less

Special to WorldTribune.com A new survey funded by laundry detergent brand Persil found 1 in 3 children in the U.K. spend less time outside than inmates in maximum security prisons. The poll questioned more than 12,000 parents of children between the ages of 5 and 12 years old in 10 different countries. And in the […]

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Gen. James Mattis on why reading could be critical for survival

In the run up to Marine Gen. James Mattis’ deployment to Iraq in 2004, a colleague wrote to him asking about the “importance of reading and military history for officers,” many of whom found themselves “too busy to read.” His response went viral over email: … The problem with being too busy to read is […]

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Graham on State of the Union: ‘It’s broken morally, it’s broken spiritually, it’s broken politically’

Special to WorldTribune.com In anticipation of President Barack Obama’s last State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, Rev. Franklin Graham said he could already reveal the condition of our nation – it is broken, morally, spiritually, politically, and racially. The reverend added that he hoped President Obama would “turn to God for wisdom and […]

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Time for American Muslims to step up

Special to WorldTribune.com After San Bernardino, American Muslims have to come to terms with an ever more apparent truth: that we, and our mainstream Muslim brethren, are the only ones who can lead a winning fight against the radicalism crippling our faith. … Attacks like last week’s underscore the importance of countering extremist propaganda. … […]

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‘So sorry’: Erick Erickson shoots the NY Times full of holes

Special to WorldTribune.com Erick Erickson, www.erickontheradio.com Just over twenty-four hours ago, I posted a picture of the front page of the New York Times with seven 9mm bullet holes that I had fired into it from top to bottom of their anti-gun editorial. The ensuing reaction over these past twenty-four hours have convinced me I […]

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The brouhaha at Mizzou would make a great Tom Wolfe novel

Special to WorldTribune.com Ironic his name is Wolfe. The incidents surrounding University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe’s resignation following protests of racial insensitivity on campus might as well be plot points in a novel by Tom Wolfe. They are certainly as funny. The graduate student on hunger strike against oppression is the son of a […]

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Totalitarian consensus: Boston Globe op-ed laments end of China’s one-child policy

By Sarah Conly China has just announced that it is giving up its infamous one-child policy. While the Chinese government has been creating more exceptions to the one-child rule in recent years, this is the first time officials have announced that all couples may have two children if they so choose. The change is being […]

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Only in America . . .

Only in America… can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. Only in America… are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. Only in America… do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy […]

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The Right does have answers on guns, Mr. President

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager On the assumption that there are good and bad people on both the right and the left and that everyone is horrified by mass shootings, how is one to explain the great divide between right and left on the gun issue as it relates to these mass murders? Why does […]

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Drudge in rare interview slams ‘corporate’ news ghettos: ‘Stop operating in their playground, stop it’

During an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, Matt Drudge said that copyright laws which prevent websites from even linking to news stories were being advanced. “I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going […]

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Sacred open spaces and the ‘affordable housing’ fraud

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Nowhere has there been so much hand-wringing over a lack of “affordable housing,” as among politicians and others in coastal California. And nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than those same politicians and their supporters. A recent survey showed that the average monthly rent for a one-bedroom […]

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Abortion survivor’s riveting testimony that the big media deemed non-newsworthy

Special to WorldTribune.com Gianna Jessen, whose life was the inspiration for the film “October Baby,” told the House Judiciary Committee last week how she survived 18 hours of being burned in her mother’s womb at a Planned Parenthood clinic in California. Her experience proves that God’s will is stronger than her biological mother’s “right to […]

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Who is Kim Davis? Clerk who went to prison over same sex marriage is Democrat, recent Christian

Special to WorldTribune.com Rarely does a county clerk became the center of a national media firestorm. But Kim Davis, the clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, has become trapped in the eye of the national media hurricane that has surrounded her decision to prohibit her office from issuing all marriage licenses due to her Christian objection […]

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Conscientious objector to gay marriage jailed in Kentucky until she bows to court order

Special to WorldTribune.com A county clerk in Kentucky has been found guilty of contempt and sent to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her own religious objections. Kim Davis, the clerk at Rowan County who garnered national attention for refusing to issue the marriage licenses, was found in contempt […]

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The centrality of lying as the art of survival in Orwellian North Korea

Hyeonseo Lee’s … status was threatened when her ailing stepfather committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium. The Kim regime views suicide as a kind of jailbreak; it responds by punishing a dead citizen’s children. They can be reclassified as “hostile,” which denies them access to universities and limits job prospects. The suicide jolted […]

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