Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Two relatively recent photos of Barack Obama with foreign leaders reveal much about his deep-dyed leftism. The first features President Obama and democratically elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of one of America’s most loyal friends. Obama looks strained. His face is stiff, and his eyes are veiled. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Who controls the past controls the future. — George Orwell, “1984” The candidates who are announcing for president will be cheered to know that the Democratic Party has been hemorrhaging popularity the way the housing market lost value in 2008. In 2009, 62 percent of Americans had a favorable […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. — George Washington Until almost literally the day before yesterday, it was universally acknowledged that religious faith and expression were bedrock American freedoms — enshrined in the Constitution, protected in law and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Maybe I’m too sensitive, but when a foreign autocrat leads his people in chants of “Death to America,” I take it personally. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry apparently don’t. The chant, which became a staple of the Islamic Republic during the 1979 revolution, is not a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Starbucks is hoping to lead a national conversation about race. According to a video released by founder Howard Schultz, Starbucks baristas are encouraged to scrawl “race together” on coffee cups before placing them in the hands of customers. This hollow bit of moral exhibitionism is supposed to encourage “compassion,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “Traitors!” screamed the headline of the New York Daily News. “Beneath the dignity of the institution I revere,” huffed Vice President Joe Biden. “Dangerous and irresponsible,” opined The Washington Post’s David Ignatius. President Obama offered that it was “ironic” that the senators were on the same side as supposed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are blessed with a talented crowd of potential candidates this cycle. Fine. But here’s my case for why only one of them is likely to win the general election. Forget the triumphalism that followed 2014. It will do the GOP exactly as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Gov. Scott Walker has leapt to the top of polls in Iowa. As day follows night, he has moved to the center of the liberal press’s crosshairs. This is the world we inhabit: When a Democrat is perceived as popular, the press discovers layers of humor and elan we […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen President Obama’s scolding of Western civilization at the National Prayer Breakfast (“Lest we get on our high horse…”) may go down in history as the emblematic moment of his presidency. It was atrociously ill timed and characteristically sophomoric. My colleague Jay Nordlinger observed that Obama sounded just like the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “Cui bono?” Who benefits? It was the question ancient Romans asked when hoping to cut through a fog of possible causes for a problem. As of this morning, U.S. Marines were evacuating Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. We’ve seen this movie before: the bonfires of documents, the hammer blows […]