by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have won a fourth term in the Sept. 24 elections, but the anti-immigrant party AfD stole the spotlight. Not only did the AfD enter the German parliament for the first time, it won enough seats to become the third-largest party in the Bundestag after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Truth has become stranger than fiction even here at the United Nations where the recently concluded annual debate of world leaders was both clouded by threats of conflict in Korea and to a backdrop of natural calamities from Caribbean hurricanes to earthquakes. Clearly a week […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 In the people’s war with the D.C. “Swamp,” the “Swamp” is still winning – but Congress “is making progress,” said Rep. Dave Brat. “There are good reasons voters in both parties felt they needed to turn to ‘outsider’ candidates last November: the insiders in the swamp weren’t listening,” Brat […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 Unlike the NBA, the NFL’s 2017 rulebook makes no mention of what players must do during the playing of the national anthem. A rumor that is circulating the web that a rule mandating players stand for the anthem does exist seems to be just that – a rumor. Snopes […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Football players kneeling during the national anthem “doesn’t wash” with millions of U.S. military veterans, the commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) said on Sept. 25. “I stand for our flag and anthem,” Keith Harman, a Vietnam combat veteran, said. “And I kneel for our fallen. That’s what […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 The FBI and Justice Department have, for the third time, missed a deadline to deliver subpoenaed documents related to the discredited Trump dossier to the House Intelligence Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley and the House Intelligence Committee want to know if the FBI ever used what former FBI Director James […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 Conditions created by Iran’s expanding influence have reached a point where war may be the only way to solve Yemen’s civil war, Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi said. “The military solution is the most likely because it is not their (Iran-backed Houthis’) decision to make,” Hadi said on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 Did March Madness just surrender to September hysteria? On the same day President Donald Trump rescinded an invitation to NBA champion Golden State Warriors’ point guard Stephen Curry, a team spokesman for the University of North Carolina’s NCAA championship-winning men’s basketball team said the team won’t be making the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk It wasn’t exactly a declaration of war, but it did come close. What else to make of President Trump’s remark that the U.S. might “totally destroy North Korea”? It was one thing to belittle Kim Jong-Un as “rocket man” but quite another to threaten annihilation of a country torn […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 While out promoting her book “What Happened”, losing 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that female Trump supporters who wear profane T-shirts about her are “disrespecting themselves.” In a Sept. 24 interview, MSNBC host Joy Reid brought up said: “I can remember being in Cleveland and seeing women putting […]
