Global econ: Asia boom, minus numbers down South, anti-Trumpism slows U.S. growth

Global econ: Asia boom, minus numbers down South, anti-Trumpism slows U.S. growth

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The world economy is slowly improving with a forecast for 2.7 percent global growth, but there’s still a way to go to reach pre-recession levels. That’s part of the prognosis of the UN’s World Economic Situation midterm report for 2017 which cites stronger economic recovery […]

Harvard study puts anti-Trump media bias in bold relief

Harvard study puts anti-Trump media bias in bold relief

by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2017 Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy has released a report that reviews media coverage of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days. The study analyzed CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. European media surveyed included the […]

Soros buys underdog’s win as Philly DA: Billionaire’s cash ‘changed the game’

Soros buys underdog’s win as Philly DA: Billionaire’s cash ‘changed the game’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2017 Leftist billionaire George Soros’s recent losses in the stock market haven’t interrupted his spending spree in pursuit of buying high-profile district attorneys’ seats. Soros poured $1.45 million into the Philadelphia district attorney’s race to fund a super PAC in support of a progressive lawyer who has never worked as a […]

Mexico’s drug war ranks as world’s second-deadliest conflict

Mexico’s drug war ranks as world’s second-deadliest conflict

Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall Readers may note that several reports and evaluations of Mexican violence in 2016 have now been released, in calendar year 2017. As examples: 1. According to statistics of the Mexican government itself, murders in Mexico increased in 2016. See Mexico’s murder rate spiked in 2016 due to ‘ongoing shifts […]

Comment: No, the Democrats have not changed and are not open to reason

Comment: No, the Democrats have not changed and are not open to reason

by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Conservatives haven’t fought the Left hard enough “because we keep thinking they will change and be open to reason,” columnist James Lewis wrote for American Thinker. But Democrats only have one playbook – “and they never stop following it,” Lewis wrote in an op-ed published on May 17. “Democrats […]

Guest editorial: 8 years to create the ‘Deep State’ and may God bless the republic and President Trump

Guest editorial: 8 years to create the ‘Deep State’ and may God bless the republic and President Trump

Special to WorldTribune.com By Karen Cacy, Fairfax Free Citizen, May 17, 2017 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – For history and political science buffs, the Trump presidency is providing a veritable laboratory of the law and the U.S. presidency, as well as the opportunity to sift conflicting accounts to arrive at valid conclusions. These opportunities were kindly brought […]

New York City conservative stalwart Tom Bolan, 92

New York City conservative stalwart Tom Bolan, 92

by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2017 Tom Bolan, dedicated conservative and law partner of WorldTribune‘s honorary counsel Roy Cohn, died on May 13 at the age of 92. Bolan, who also did legal work for the Trump family, was a World War II veteran who flew 35 bomber missions over Germany. In civilian life during […]

Why communism gets a pass from our one-party system and culture

Why communism gets a pass from our one-party system and culture

Special to WorldTribune.com By Ileana Johnson, Fairfax Free Citizen A bill narrowly passed the house in California, repealing part of the law enacted during the Cold War era in our country’s history when communists were really active and infiltrating our government, attempting to overthrow it. The bill proposed to eliminate the section which allowed the […]

Flashpoint South: ‘Progressive’ Venezuela slides into chaos

Flashpoint South: ‘Progressive’ Venezuela slides into chaos

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Storm clouds are buffeting the coast of Venezuela, the once rich South American state which is sliding into economic chaos and combustible political confrontation. Mass demonstrations have rocked the capital Caracas. As democratic opposition protesters confront the riot police and paramilitary forces of the entrenched […]

In the Trump era, U.S. must support Iran’s people, not their rulers

In the Trump era, U.S. must support Iran’s people, not their rulers

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mansour Kashfi More than nine million Iranians have fled their homeland since the rule of chaos and execution was forced upon their country on Feb. 11, 1979 under the name of the Islamic revolution. It is without question a black mark in the record of any regime when more than 12 […]