Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The bodies of 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Air Flight 17, 80 of them children, lay unburied in a Ukrainian field while Vladimir Putin’s men fired their weapons into the air to keep international investigators from approaching the site. Yes, “Putin’s men.” Calling them “Russian separatists” unnecessarily dignifies […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell In a recent confrontation between protesters against the illegal flood of unaccompanied children into the United States and counter-protests by some Hispanic group, one man from the latter group said angrily, “We are as good as you are!” One of the things that make the history of clashes over […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager When I was a graduate student at Columbia University’s Russian Institute, there was a great debate: Was the communist Soviet Union an organic Russian development or was it largely a cancer imposed on it? Those who held the organic view argued that the change from czar to commissar was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Miles Yu, Washington Times Maj. Gen. Liu Xiaojun, the high-flying commanding officer of the People’s Liberation Army contingent in freewheeling Hong Kong, was abruptly relieved of command recently and reassigned to the Guangzhou Military Region in a new position believed to be mostly ceremonial. His replacement is a Russian-trained PLA general known […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen You needn’t be clairvoyant to deduce what the Democratic Party wants to run on in 2016. It really doesn’t matter whether their nominee is Hillary Clinton or someone else. Democrats won’t be campaigning on the thriving economy under President Barack Obama, global stability under American leadership, the successful routing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Barack and Michelle Obama are quite the diversionary tag-team. He blames everyone else for his problems. She takes credit for progress on his behalf that he doesn’t deserve and distracts public attention from his avalanche of failures with endless feel-good photo-ops. While the shirker in chief golfed and grubbed […]
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Special to WorldTribune.com President Obama spoke for 38 or so seconds yesterday after learning that a Malaysian Air flight had been shot down over Ukraine. In the process, he said in those 38 seconds that a plane falling from the sky “may be” a tragedy. Conservatives were quick to point out Ronald Reagan’s response to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The crash of a Malaysia Airlines flight Thursday in Ukraine occurred on the 18th anniversary of TWA Flight 800, which crashed in New York in 1996, killing 230 people. The TWA 800 crash, which was ultimately balmed on a fuel tank explosion, happened after the plane took off from John F. Kennedy […]