China’s ‘Congress’ aims for great high tech leap past U.S.

China’s ‘Congress’ aims for great high tech leap past U.S.

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Amid the theatrical fanfare and political pomp, China’s annual “National People’s Congress” met in Beijing to dutifully endorse the ruling Communist Party’s (CCP) vision for the future.  Nearly 3,000 delegates surrounded by the red and gold trappings of the People’s Republic and energized by the musical choreography of […]

Washington Post quietly corrects report on Georgia call cited in impeachment trial

Washington Post quietly corrects report on Georgia call cited in impeachment trial

BREAKING . . . [Editor’s Note: We have added ‘Breaking‘ as a new feature because . . . Drudge has gone away.] The Washington Post issued a correction revealing it “misquoted” Donald Trump’s comment on a call with a Georgia election official. The outlet quietly admitted that the former president never asked the state’s top election investigator […]

New studies counter assumptions on family size, church communities

New studies counter assumptions on family size, church communities

By R. Clinton Ohlers New research is overturning longstanding assumptions about successful families, and doing so with a unexpected twist. Families who participate in church communities have on average both more children and more positive outcomes. Researchers believe they now also know why. Social scientists have long treated family size as a zero sum game. […]

Greenwald: Silicon Valley’s unchecked power threatens not just U.S. but all democracies

Greenwald: Silicon Valley’s unchecked power threatens not just U.S. but all democracies

Special to WorldTribune, March 15, 2021 Following are excerpts from the testimony of Glenn Greenwald before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, March 12, 2021. Over the last several years, my journalistic interest in and concern about the dangers of Silicon Valley’s monopoly power has greatly intensified — particularly as wielded […]

Unreported metric: Border ‘got-aways’ reportedly surging

Unreported metric: Border ‘got-aways’ reportedly surging

BREAKING . . . [Editor’s Note: We have added ‘Breaking‘ as a new feature because . . . Drudge has gone away.] A U.S. Border Patrol source reports the number of migrant “got-away’s” tallied by the agency surpassed 118,000 for this fiscal year. In less than six months, the “got-away” number is nearly double that […]

Feckless Bureau of Investigation: FBI under Wray hid Hunter’s laptop, failed to act on major threats

Feckless Bureau of Investigation: FBI under Wray hid Hunter’s laptop, failed to act on major threats

Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau FBI Director Christopher Wray is dancing around questions concerning the part his agency played in warning Congress and the Capitol police about potential violence planned for last Jan. 6.   Cutting through his comments about “domestic terrorism” and who is to blame, it appears he fumbled the ball big time, and that […]

Experts fear ‘deadly outbreak of freedom’

Experts fear ‘deadly outbreak of freedom’

S A T I R E [T]he lifting of mask mandates, business closures, and capacity limits in Texas and Mississippi could contribute to the spread of liberty across the nation. “As states like Texas begin to lift their mandates, we could be seeing a deadly outbreak of freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility all across the […]

What about Joe? Media dismissed hard-to-dismiss allegations

What about Joe? Media dismissed hard-to-dismiss allegations

Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau With the angry “Me-Too” movement again in the news because of the alleged misconduct of New York Gov. Cuomo, perhaps its time for a legitimate inquiry into the allegations against Joe Biden. The public may have forgotten that back in his days as a U.S. Senator, the current president […]

Verbal angst at the UN but no action on Burma in China’s backyard

Verbal angst at the UN but no action on Burma in China’s backyard

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler More than a month after the military overthrew Burma’s elected government, the situation in the South East Asian country aka Myanmar remains “fragile and fluid,” according to the UN’s  Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener. Addressing a General Assembly session on the percolating political and humanitarian situation in Myanmar, […]

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