Bernie Sanders: Nominating Hillary would be disaster for party, nation

Bernie Sanders: Nominating Hillary would be disaster for party, nation

Special to WorldTribune.com While GOP leaders in Washington were inching toward solidarity with Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders unleashed his harshest rhetoric to date against Hillary Clinton. Coming off victory in the West Virginia primary, his 20th win of the primary season, Sanders’ campaign said on May 11 the Democratic Party would be courting […]

Survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by wide margin

Survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by wide margin

Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. military personnel prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin, according to a 2016 election survey by Military Times. Trump garnered 54 percent compared to Clinton’s 25 percent in a survey of 951 active-duty service members. More than one in five troops said they’d rather not vote […]

Trump’s Israel adviser: Candidate would not have ‘berated Netanyahu the way Hillary did’

Trump’s Israel adviser: Candidate would not have ‘berated Netanyahu the way Hillary did’

Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump would “not in a million years” have lectured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the way Hillary Clinton did during her tenure as secretary of state, Trump’s adviser on Israel said. Jason Greenblatt, who has been working for Trump for the past two decades, made the comment during a recent interview […]

Sen. Ben Sasse’s open letter to the majority of Americans

Sen. Ben Sasse’s open letter to the majority of Americans

TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward: (…or, stated more simply) TO: The majority of America: FROM: Sen. Ben Ssse, R-Neb. Note: If you are one of those rare souls who genuinely believe Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are honorable people – if they […]

Trump’s China policy: Will business as usual really protect U.S. interests?

Trump’s China policy: Will business as usual really protect U.S. interests?

Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump correctly asserted that President Barack Obama’s weakness has emboldened China, but the GOP front-runner has also hinted he will continue 1980s-era business-oriented approaches toward Beijing that have not worked, national security journalist Bill Gertz wrote. “Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault on American jobs and wealth, […]

Clinton’s ‘off the reservation’ remark triggers anger for Native Americans, disbelief in others

Clinton’s ‘off the reservation’ remark triggers anger for Native Americans, disbelief in others

Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton has extended the peace pipe and apologized for offending Native Americans. The Democratic presidential front-runner, in remarks about GOP front-runner Donald Trump on April 29, said that she’s used to dealing with men who “get off the reservation.” The comment triggered outrage among Native American advocates, not to mention derision […]

Trumpphobia: If the GOP’s establishment is terrified, so is the world’s

Trumpphobia: If the GOP’s establishment is terrified, so is the world’s

Special to WorldTribune.com While Donald Trump has the Republican establishment running scared, world leaders are said to be in full-blown panic mode. “However much people recoiled from George W. Bush or have been disappointed by Obama, they see Trump as off the Richter scale,” Peter Mandelson, a member of the British Cabinet under Prime Ministers […]

Presidential primary circus does New York

Presidential primary circus does New York

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK CITY — The seemingly never ending presidential primary circus came through New York with the predictable partisan name calling and puerile political promises. For much of the campaign the political charges and arguments resembled peeved sandbox kicking kindergarten kids more than serious adults running for the […]

Paglia on the ‘Hillary cult’: Devotees worship their queen, ignore reality

Paglia on the ‘Hillary cult’: Devotees worship their queen, ignore reality

Special to WorldTribune.com In an April 21 commentary penned for Salon, Camille Paglia wondered why Hillary Clinton voters overlook the Democratic candidate’s “money lust, shadowy surrogates, sociopathic policy shifts, horrific overseas record.” “What is it with the Hillary cult? “As a lifelong Democrat who will be enthusiastically voting for Bernie Sanders in next week’s Pennsylvania […]

Obama adviser: Hillary Clinton’s plan for no-fly zone in Syria won’t work

Obama adviser: Hillary Clinton’s plan for no-fly zone in Syria won’t work

Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton’s idea for a no-fly zone in Syria “would not solve the ISIL problem,” a White House official said. The no-fly zone proposed by Democratic presidential front-runner and former secretary of state would be ineffective and a poor use of resources, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said on David Axelrod’s […]