by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 The largest milk-producing state in the union has a beef with its bovines. The problem? California’s cows are farting too much – and it is killing the earth. Gov. Jerry Brown, despite strong opposition from the state’s dairy farmers, signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2016 As the nation’s largest recipient of federal funds, “Sanctuary California” could face bankruptcy if President-elect Donald Trump pulls billions in federal funding over the state’s refusal to comply with immigration laws. The federal government provided 37 percent ($93.6 billion) of California’s $252.5 billion in total estimated government spending for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, Nov. 24, 2016 Text from Rush Limbaugh’s Nov. 23 show: RUSH: The Real Story of Thanksgiving is a tradition on this program. … “The True Story of Thanksgiving,” written about in Chapter 6 of See, I Told You So, which is book two. It’s the chapter titled “Dead White Guys, or What […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States has issued a second license to France’s Airbus to sell more than 100 commercial planes to Iran. Airbus in September received a license to sell 17 planes to Tehran. Officials said that the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on November […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler New York — A jarring electoral earthquake has rocked America with a stunning upset win by Donald J. Trump, the Republican insurgent candidate. The epicenter of the quake was centered in the South as expected, but reverberations and shockwaves went deep into the once industrial heartland of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2016 Get used to it. President Donald Trump. It is a phrase that polite society in Washington, D.C. and in the most sophisticated world capitals could not conceive of, much less utter as even a hypothetical. Which is why he won his party’s nomination and the general election decisively against […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2016 Tax cuts have delivered more jobs and higher pay for North Carolina residents, with the Tar Heel state’s economy growing faster than the national average in each of the last three years. Such data is of no concern to the George Soros-funded Budget & Tax Center, a project of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2016 More than 1 in 10 Obamacare enrollees are going to lose their current healthcare plans. According to Bloomberg, at least 1.4 million people in 32 states will be looking for new plans when open enrollment begins because their old plans will cease to exist after Dec. 31, 2016. Due to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2016 Just one health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, remains in North Carolina. And its rates are rising by about 25 percent. “In no other state will as many people find such limited choice. But what is happening to North Carolinians epitomizes a national checkerboard of ACA haves and have-nots,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says his country is negotiating with Iran about purchasing oil. Speaking at a session of parliament in Minsk on October 7, Lukashenka said talks with Tehran are under way amid differences with Russia on the importing of oil and gas. “We are […]