Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Special to WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 By Joseph Churba The following excerpt is from ‘The Washington Compromise‘ by the late Dr. Joseph Churba, University Press, 1995. The Republican National Convention was held in Detroit on July 14-17, 1980. With Reagan’s candidacy assured, the only remaining question befell the choice of running mate. Henry Kissinger, hoping […]

Trump urges Orrin Hatch to run for re-election to keep Romney out of Senate

Trump urges Orrin Hatch to run for re-election to keep Romney out of Senate

by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2017 President Donald Trump has asked longtime Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to consider running for an eighth term, in large part because Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 presidential candidate and a virulent “Never Trumper,” is said to be preparing to run for the seat should Hatch retire. In a phone […]

Stanford professor’s plan to change NC voting districts hailed by Democrats

Stanford professor’s plan to change NC voting districts hailed by Democrats

by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2017 The plan drawn up by a Stanford University law professor to reshape North Carolina’s voting districts is being lauded by state Democratic leaders. Republicans condemned it as a political power play. Nathaniel Persily on Dec. 1 submitted proposed voting district changes in Wake, Cumberland, Guilford, Hoke, Mecklenburg, Bladen, Sampson […]

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

by Robert Morton, WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 On Nov. 25, 1991, a Brooklyn-born intelligence expert of Syrian Jewish descent rattled a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing with his proposed response to the emerging North Korean nuclear threat. After being challenged he responded with a warning that now, 36 years later, seems eerily prophetic. While other […]

Plea deal with gold trader has potentially explosive links to Flynn, Turkey’s Erdogan

Plea deal with gold trader has potentially explosive links to Flynn, Turkey’s Erdogan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The case against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who allegedly engineered a massive bribery scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran could also implicate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn. Reza Zarrab has pleaded guilty in a New York federal court. Prosecutors described Zarrab, […]

Out of Romania to the socialist U.S. education system and small-town liberal newspapers

Out of Romania to the socialist U.S. education system and small-town liberal newspapers

Special to WorldTribune.com By Ileana Johnson, Fairfax Free Citizen When I left Romania after twenty years of frugal subsistence and tyranny under Ceausescu’s communist regime, I thought the nightmare was over, I was moving to America, the land of freedom and opportunity, and everything would be all right. All I had to do is study […]

Paid protesters told to ‘risk arrest’ in exchange for air fare, housing

Paid protesters told to ‘risk arrest’ in exchange for air fare, housing

by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2017 A leftist activist group said it is willing to pony up airfare to the nation’s capital to protesters from distant areas in the U.S. if the protesters are prepared to “risk arrest.” “We will transport, house and feed you, and deal with all legal support. Caveat: if you are […]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff donated in favor of Democrats, 593 to 1

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff donated in favor of Democrats, 593 to 1

by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2017 Just how deeply partisan can one U.S. federal government agency be? Consider the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is now under scrutiny by the Trump administration “which feels it is wasting taxpayer’s money and not returning much for their investment,” Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard noted in […]

U.S., South Korea set for exercise with focus on synching operations in the event of war

U.S., South Korea set for exercise with focus on synching operations in the event of war

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — U.S. and South Korean warplanes will be crisscrossing the skies above and around South Korea early next month in the biggest show of allied force against the North so far. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In agreed on the need to stage the […]

U.S. says alleged mastermind in Iran sanctions case won’t stand trial

U.S. says alleged mastermind in Iran sanctions case won’t stand trial

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman who was the alleged mastermind in what U.S. prosecutors say was a high-level conspiracy to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions will not stand trial this week as scheduled, though the case is proceeding against his co-defendant. U.S. Judge Richard Berman announced on […]