We would rather not think about Afghanistan, but this is important so let’s talk

We would rather not think about Afghanistan, but this is important so let’s talk

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin To call President Obama’s Afghanistan policy a mess is a colossal understatement. To call it a coherent “policy,” for that matter, is a gut-busting exaggeration. It’s a bloody, incompetent and treacherous disaster. Our military heroes and families, God bless them, refuse to stay silent about the consequences. Consider these […]

Just say ‘no’ to Common Core testing

Just say ‘no’ to Common Core testing

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin This is National School Choice Week, but I want to talk about parents’ school testing choice. Moms and dads, you have the inherent right and responsibility to protect your children. You can choose to refuse the top-down Common Core racket of costly standardized tests of dubious academic value, reliability […]

Now might be a good time to issue a U.S. rail security alert

Now might be a good time to issue a U.S. rail security alert

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin With vengeance-seeking global jihadists on the loose here and around the world, now is a good time to ask (again): Are we ready for a nefarious terrorist attack on our train and transit lines? Smoke and fire plagued two of the nation’s major metro rail stations this week, raising […]

Jonathan Gruber: Perfect 2014 symbol of the one-party state’s hubris

Jonathan Gruber: Perfect 2014 symbol of the one-party state’s hubris

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Jonathan Gruber, sage of MIT and proud champion of the Affordable Care Act, may well have had the worst year in American public life. His repeated demonstrations of arrogance, contempt for the American people and smug self-satisfaction brought mortification to his party and president. His glib references to the […]

Chaplain written up for citing his faith to combat suicide in the ranks

Chaplain written up for citing his faith to combat suicide in the ranks

Special to WorldTribune.com Chaplain Joseph Lawhorn was given a “letter of concern” from a superior at Fort Benning for explaining to the class about how his Christian faith helped him through his depression. Col.l David G. Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, delivered the punishment: … “You provided a […]

Oops: Progressives got their big government but it’s serving the wealthy, not ‘the people’

Oops: Progressives got their big government but it’s serving the wealthy, not ‘the people’

Special to WorldTribune.com George Will Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed something obvious: Big government, which has become gargantuan in response to progressives’ promptings, serves the strong. It is responsive to factions sufficiently sophisticated and […]

The poor and middle class are getting creamed by those unaccountable regulations

The poor and middle class are getting creamed by those unaccountable regulations

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen During the 2012 campaign, President Obama often resorted to his favorite substitute for thinking: ridicule. Before enthusiastic audiences (who were assured his reelection would spell a thriving economy and a revived middle class), the president would mock Republicans by suggesting that “they have the same prescription they’ve had for […]

Exit Chuck Hagel: Marriage built on trashing Bush crashes on the shoals of reality

Exit Chuck Hagel: Marriage built on trashing Bush crashes on the shoals of reality

Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times The sudden fall of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was unexpected because he spent years in Washington getting close to Barack Obama while upbraiding the president’s predecessor. At one time an almost-lonely Republican senator from Nebraska who was not often quoted, Mr. Hagel reached news media stardom by becoming President George W. […]

Centers for everything but Disease Control: What taxpayers are getting for all that money

Centers for everything but Disease Control: What taxpayers are getting for all that money

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin So now the federal health bureaucrats in charge of controlling diseases and pandemics want more money to do their jobs. Hmph. Maybe if they hadn’t been so busy squandering their massive government subsidies on everything but their core mission, we taxpayers might actually feel a twinge of sympathy. At $7 […]

Ebola and the corrupted electronic medical records at a crony billionaire donor to Obama

Ebola and the corrupted electronic medical records at a crony billionaire donor to Obama

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin A Dallas hospital’s bizarre bungle of the first U.S. case of Ebola leaves me wondering: Is someone covering up for a crony billionaire Obama donor and her controversy-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company? Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its […]