Is perfect storm headed for the Taiwan Straits?

Is perfect storm headed for the Taiwan Straits?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — While the world is looking elsewhere and transfixed on the whirling Washington Merry-go-Round, a perfect political storm is brewing in East Asia. Unpredictable winds are gathering over the Chinese Mainland. The epicenter is the Zhongnanhai compound near Beijing’s once Forbidden City, as leader Xi Jinping […]

Conrad Black: How President Trump has changed the world

Conrad Black: How President Trump has changed the world

by WorldTribune Staff, January 14, 2019 While the Washington, D.C. establishment and corporate media are at war with him, President Donald Trump is leading an American resurgence that is reshaping the world, columnist Conrad Black wrote for Canada’s National Post. Under Trump, the United States is no longer the “world’s premier chump,” Black wrote on […]

Incestuous: A closer look at the DOJ net closing in on Donald Trump

Incestuous: A closer look at the DOJ net closing in on Donald Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, January 13, 2019 A cursory look at the roster of the main players in the Trump-Russia “collusion” investigation shows deep professional connections which “can have the look of an exclusive club,” a report said. The Washington establishment not only thrives inside the Department of Justice, but “what President Trump called ‘the swamp’ is […]

3 women in new Congress introduce bills to eliminate federal funding of abortions

3 women in new Congress introduce bills to eliminate federal funding of abortions

by WorldTribune Staff, January 11, 2019 Reps. Virginia Foxx and Vicky Hartzler and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, all Republicans, have introduced bills aimed at eliminating U.S. taxpayer funding of abortion. Foxx introduced H.R. 296, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would codify President Donald Trump’s Protect Life Rule that excludes abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, from […]

Did substance or spin prevail on Jan. 8? Limbaugh awards night to President Trump

Did substance or spin prevail on Jan. 8? Limbaugh awards night to President Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2019 President Donald Trump “was superb” in his address to the nation on Jan. 8 while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer looked like “morticians” in their response, radio host Rush Limbaugh said. “He was compassionate. He was on point. He was factually correct. And everything […]

President continues offensive against human trafficking, signs new bill

President continues offensive against human trafficking, signs new bill

by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 9 signed into law the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to further combat human trafficking. “This is an urgent humanitarian issue. My administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to confront this threat, to […]

Melania Trump as role model: First Lady is her own woman

Melania Trump as role model: First Lady is her own woman

by WorldTribune Staff, January 9, 2019 Melania Trump’s “sense of self-worth is not reliant on whether or not she’s on the cover of Vogue or invited to certain cocktail parties,” a columnist noted. The first lady “is her own woman – strong, independent, and won’t be bullied. And for today’s liberals and Democrats, that is […]

‘Born for the Swamp’: Independent journalists vet Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

‘Born for the Swamp’: Independent journalists vet Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

by WorldTribune Staff, January 8, 2019 “Startling changes of direction” on two key issues she “cared passionately” about as a young activist reveal that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona Democrat, was “born for the Swamp,” a columnist noted. In April 2006, Sinema wrote: “As one of the core organizers against the war from day one (September […]

Attorney for Russian firm hits judge for gratuitous defense of Mueller

Attorney for Russian firm hits judge for gratuitous defense of Mueller

by WorldTribune Staff, January 9, 2019 The attorney for a Russian firm charged in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller said the judge in the case, via her defense of Mueller, is showing “at a minimum an appearance of bias or prejudice in favor of the government.” Eric Dubelier, the attorney for Concord Management […]

Text of President Trump’s address to the nation

Text of President Trump’s address to the nation

by WorldTribune Staff, January 9, 2019 President Donald Trump on Jan. 8 used his first Oval Office address to the nation to urge Congress to address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border: My fellow Americans, Tonight, I am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. Every day customs […]