Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager On page 563 of his latest biography, “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary,” author Fred Kaplan (biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Gore Vidal among others) cites this insight of the sixth president: “Christianity had, all in all, he believed, been a civilizing force, ‘checking and controlling […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience. “Please do not do any more good in my country,” he said. “We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done.” That is essentially the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen On July 4, I plan to celebrate this nation’s birth with something approaching devotion. I will so despite the fact that each day’s news brings fresh reasons to worry about the future. I could list the things that worry me, but you know what they are. They probably worry […]
Special to WorldTribune.com James S. Robbins In early 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama was pushing a plan to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq and abort the “surge” strategy that had yet to take hold and end the raging sectarian struggle. President George W. Bush believed that a precipitate U.S. troop pullout would lead to increased […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Miles Yu, Inside China, Washington Times For the first time in its 43-year history, the world’s largest multinational naval exercise, Rim of the Pacific exercise, or RIMPAC, hosted by the U.S. Navy on a biennial basis, has invited the Chinese navy to participate. … Chinese state media is having a field day […]
Special to WorldTribune.com On Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly continued her series of interviews with former Weather Underground ringleader Bill Ayers. The latest installment featured Kelly moderating a debate between Ayers and Dinesh D’Souza, the filmmaker behind the film “America,” over the United States’ role in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Birthdays are supposed to be times for celebration and gift-giving. But America’s birthday on this Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America — and have long made “America” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The new docudrama America isn’t afraid to mention the possible impact radical activist Saul Alinsky had on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The film, opening nationwide today, goes beyond that. The politically charged feature compares Alinsky’s tactics, summed up in his book Rules for Radicals, to those practiced by Lucifer himself. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The ouster of retired People’s Liberation Army Gen. Xu Caihou from the Communist Party of China this week represents a major political blow to China’s all-powerful military. For a decade, Gen. Xu was the most powerful man in uniform in China as the vice chairman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin The Public and Intergovernmental Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is very concerned. No, the communications specialists in the agency are not concerned with veterans in need. They’re not concerned with citizens and public officials requesting public information. They’re not concerned with journalists seeking the truth. […]