Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 13, 2023 The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Bill Juneau, March 11, 2023 The cartoon character “Dilbert,” which has always ranked high on “favorite comic lists,” has been excised from thousands of newspapers. The block-headed Dilbert, a crotchety yet fan-favorite engineer, who often picked at the inadequacies of his fellow workers and could be sarcastic in upbraiding them, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Wendell Minnick, China in Arms, March 10, 2023 TAIPEI — Though months away, I thought we would start Halloween early. I say that because the Wolf Warrior is coming to Taiwan soon and plans to rape and pillage (my emphasis and not the dear Wolf’s). Zhou Xiaoping (周小平), the “Wolf Warrior”, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, March 9, 2023 The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report assessed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 7, 2023 LONDON — In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war. Though […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, March 7, 2023 For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have spent some $100 billion of taxpayer money to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How is that going for us so far? A recent Associated Press […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, March 2, 2023 Before President Joe Biden entered the White House, he consulted with several prominent historians about how to be a great commander in chief. Their answer: Grow government. Spend, spend, spend. Don’t worry about blowing up the debt. It was the worst possible advice, and that meeting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore February 24, 2023 This story could bring tears to your eyes. In Baltimore, Maryland, there are 23 schools in which not one single student tested “proficient in math.” Can we all agree these are schools that aren’t proficient in teaching math — or just about any course, for that matter? […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 26, 2023 Commentary by Mike Scruggs According to Russian scholar and Princeton and New York University professor Stephen F. Cohen, since 2008 and becoming more intense since 2014, the U.S. political-media establishment has engaged in an ongoing demonization campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cohen has warned: “The personal vilification of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Now a year after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia’s brutal war against a sovereign country. With a thumping majority of 141 in favor, only 7 against and 32 abstentions, the Assembly again issued a non-binding resolution demanding Russia’s military […]
