Special to WorldTribune.com Life was just as brutal for the Yazidis … under former dictator Saddam Hussein as it is now under the threat from Islamic militants, contradicting recent claims about the former Iraqi government. The plight of the Yazidis attracted international attention in recent days as thousands sought refuge from the Islamic State of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com It is the very essence of the American Dream: an irrepressible confidence that our children will live better than we do. And now it is gone. It has been slipping for some time, really, but a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll this month put an exclamation point on Americans’ lost optimism. When […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves “progressive,” is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn’t exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist. […]
Click on Image for High Resolution, Townhall.com In a January interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama dismissed Al Qaida-linked militants in Iraq and Syria as junior varsity basketball players: “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bernard Kerik, Huffington Post Today we face a far greater threat than we faced on and in the aftermath of 9/11: a self- proclaimed group that refers to itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant — ISIL. Let me be clear… ISIL is not a terror group, but a barbaric […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Wonder of wonders: The Washington press corps woke up. Finally, mainstream journalists are onto Barack Obama’s game. Their breaking-news shocker? Turns out all that “hope and change” stuff was just hot air. A new report from the D.C.-based press shows that — gasp — the White House is infested […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Washington Times At the White House on Saturday morning — less than 48 hours after authorizing airstrikes against Islamist militants and humanitarian air drops to save the lives of trapped Iraqi civilians — President Obama blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the absence of American troops in Iraq and rejected the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Famed comedian and actor Robin Williams, 63, died Aug. 11 of an apparent suicide. His wife since 2011, graphic designer Susan Schneider, issued the following statement: “This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am […]
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Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell People are arguing about what the United States got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. […]