Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Don’t look now but Donald K. Trump has won his war with the traditional media and the Hollywood luminaries. In the process he has left the Democrats gasping for breath and searching for a missing program for action. It will take historians a while to figure out just […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk PYEONGCHANG ― Now I know firsthand what they’re talking about when they say the Russians are tricky. Yes, they’ve gotten into American and other websites, tried to sway the U.S. presidential election and are not to be trusted, but those were media reports. In an era of fake news, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. officials remain deeply skeptical of North Korea’s intentions while South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In seeks to build on the momentum toward negotiations in the aftermath of the Winter Olympics. The White House is awaiting a firm signal directly from Pyongyang about the prospects for talks while wondering about […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Sheriff Scott Israel must resign. His leadership of the Broward County police department is not just untenable. It has become a national disgrace — a scandal that can no longer be ignored. In the wake of the school mass shooting in Florida, the media was quick to demand gun […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Artillery fire and indiscriminate air strikes pound and batter the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Civilians, mostly children, are being killed and maimed. The Security Council wrings its hands in pleading for a humanitarian respite in a ongoing horror. And the world community politely averts its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Ivanka Trump’s upcoming weekend in South Korea is sure to set off another round of intense speculation while the vice chairman of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party leads a delegation south at just about the same time. The big question is whether the presidential daughter […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Now the real games begin; the interplay between North and South Korea and between the U.S. and both Koreas. The players may have shifted some of the pieces around the chessboard during these most political of Winter Olympics, but it’s much too early to know what happens next, much […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Liberals want to ban guns following the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They argue that Nikolas Cruz could never have slaughtered 17 students and teachers without being able to legally buy an AR-15 rifle. After every school mass shooting, the Left’s cry is the same: […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Much too much is being made of the naming of Russian agents operating in the U.S. and their ostensible efforts to thwart our electoral process. There is a suspicion that part of the hullabaloo is an attempt to draw attention away from more important scandalous matters, including the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Imagine an agency of the United States government directly choosing and appointing the Catholic Bishops of Washington D.C., St. Louis, Denver and Boston. In other American dioceses there’s close coordination between the fictional “American Religious Affairs Council” and the Vatican on choosing a particular prelate. […]
