by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 Two years to the day on June 16 Donald and Melania Trump took the escalator down at Trump Tower where Trump announced he was running for president. For two years, the major media and Trump resisters “have used every weapon in their arsenal to destroy him. And they have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Thirty years ago this week in 1987, President Ronald Reagan visiting Berlin, made his famous challenge, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.” Alongside the American President stood German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A few years earlier I met Helmut Kohl campaigning in his native Rheinland. Kohl, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 July 2016: The town hall forum and freedom of expression are as American as apple pie. So is civil disobedience. However violence in political discourse has always been frowned on in a Christian nation that values principled freedom of expression. As British philosopher John Locke wrote, there could be […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 After stating unequivocally that there was a “clear link” between Sarah Palin’s rhetoric and the shooting of Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, The New York Times issued a correction to its June 14 editorial titled “America’s Lethal Politics”. “An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 “Systematic weaknesses” that could “be exploited” to the benefit of one candidate over another made North Carolina vulnerable to voter fraud during the 2016 election, a resident of the state said. David W. Goetze is asking for an investigation into possible widespread voter fraud in the state. The retired […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 [Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this article cited a report from another publication about Robert Woodard’s previous record that had not been confirmed. That reference has been removed.] Some teachers in North Carolina who have been charged with sex crimes are being shifted to other schools rather than […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 An Iranian missile boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz on June 13 in what the U.S. military called an “unsafe and unprofessional” action. The Iranian vessel also turned its spotlight on two Navy ships that the helicopter was accompanying […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 A ‘Business Insiderprofile on AOL news of James Hodgkinson, who allegedly carried out the attack on Republican members of Congress at a June 14 practice’ for a charity baseball game, paints the picture of a “very mellow” business owner who “stayed up late” talking politics and whose alleged actions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2017 As a New York theater production of the graphic assassination of the president gets standing ovations, a gunman who allegedly wanted to “kill as many Republicans as possible” opened fire on a field in which GOP members of Congress were practicing for a charity baseball game. Rep. Steve Scalise, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2017 Saying he would not be intimidated by “false attacks, innuendo and leaks,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions on June 13 repudiated charges by Democrats that he held improper meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. In his opening statement before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sessions also […]
