Hanson: California has emerged as America’s ‘first third world state’

Hanson: California has emerged as America’s ‘first third world state’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2019 High taxes, poor schools, a super-rich class, and a significant percentage of citizens below the poverty line. These are the “symptoms” we “associate with failed states,” historian Victor Davis Hanson said. California currently has all of these “symptoms” and thus has become America’s first “third world state,” Hanson said […]

High Court sides with Christian bakers who refused to make cake for same-sex couple

High Court sides with Christian bakers who refused to make cake for same-sex couple

by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2019 The Supreme Court on June 17 lifted a lower court’s order which punished a Christian bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein were ordered by an Oregon court to pay a $135,000 fine and cease discriminating on the basis of […]

Ohio bakery wins $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College

Ohio bakery wins $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College

by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2019 The owners of an Ohio bakery were awarded $11 million in a libel suit against Oberlin College. Gibson’s Bakery and Market won the award after filing a lawsuit against the college in the wake of student protests that accused bakery personnel of racial profiling. On the day after the […]

‘In God we trust’? California city approves decals for emergency vehicles

‘In God we trust’? California city approves decals for emergency vehicles

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2019 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and His Ten Commandments were acknowledged in unrelated developments in California and Illinois Over the objections of the ACLU and 19 outspoken critics at a debate on the issue, the Bakersfield City Council on June 5 approved a proposal to add […]

New York man who shot 2 burglars in his home charged with felony over inherited gun

New York man who shot 2 burglars in his home charged with felony over inherited gun

by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2019 A 64-year-old man who shot and killed two intruders in his upstate New York home was arrested and charged with a felony for using an unregistered gun. Ronald Stolarczyk was in the kitchen of his Deerfield home when two burglars who had allegedly robbed him on a previous occasion […]

Former state Republican senators shot dead in Arkansas, Oklahoma

Former state Republican senators shot dead in Arkansas, Oklahoma

by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2019 Two former Republican state senators, one Oklahoma and another in Arkansas, were found dead from gunshot wounds in just over 24 hours. Police confirmed on June 6 that 53-year-old Jonathan Nichols was found dead at his property in west Norman, Oklahoma at about 8.44 p.m. on June 5. A […]

NC Democrats giddy after GOP fails to override governor’s veto of born alive abortion bill

NC Democrats giddy after GOP fails to override governor’s veto of born alive abortion bill

by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2019 North Carolina Democrats were in a celebratory mood after they successfully staved off an effort by Republicans to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the GOP-led State Assembly’s born alive abortion legislation. The legislation would have required medical professionals to care for newborns who survive an abortion and grant […]

‘No special treatment’: Sending Manafort to Rikers ‘possibly illegal’ says Dershowitz

‘No special treatment’: Sending Manafort to Rikers ‘possibly illegal’ says Dershowitz

by9 WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2019 Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is currently serving a 7.5 year prison sentence in a Pennsylvania federal prison. Earlier this year, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. obtained an indictment against Manafort on charges of mortgage fraud and a state judge has now ordered Manafort to be moved […]

Sky didn’t fall but Google’s cloud did; Massive outage allegedly triggered by ‘configuration change’

Sky didn’t fall but Google’s cloud did; Massive outage allegedly triggered by ‘configuration change’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2019 The Internet was having a bad day on June 2, and a DrudgeReport headline suggested the U.S. Government was involved. As with anything involving bureaucracy and high technology, the answer to the question what happened got lost in a cloud of words. A massive outage affected major tech brands […]

Corporate Tyranny: Disney, CNN, HBO, TNT threaten Georgia over abortion law

Corporate Tyranny: Disney, CNN, HBO, TNT threaten Georgia over abortion law

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2019 Disney and WarnerMedia have bluntly signaled they will re-think doing business in the state of Georgia as long as its fetal heartbeat abortion law stands. Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, said it would be “difficult” for the company to “produce” in Georgia if the […]