Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Like millions of other American parents, my husband and I received a warning letter from the BMI police last week. Our active, healthy 8th-grade daughter is “very lean,” according to her school-administered “Fitnessgram.” The national student body monitors think this is a public health problem. The obesity report card […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Behold Canada and America. One country supports the efforts of a U.S. special forces soldier’s widow to hold accountable the jihadist who killed her husband and the father of her two young children. The other country helped free that jihadist from Guantanamo Bay in a shady deal that appeased […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The family and followers of one of India’s wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle over whether he is dead or simply in a deep state of meditation. His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order with a property estate worth an estimated […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The latest mass-casualty shooting spree — this one in Santa Barbara, California — has touched off the usual debate about how to put a stop to these hideous spasms of murder. These random massacres have become, as I wrote in a previous column, an American psychosis. Some, including the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager Last week, on my radio talk show, I received a call from Jeff, a 21-year-old in North Carolina. I have abridged it and edited it stylistically. JEFF: I wanted to respond to your question about America being feared in the world. You brought up Syria. I think it’s a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s lavish Florence wedding plans have been slammed by a modern descendant of the Medici family. Prince Ottaviano de’Medici di Toscana, whose family built Forte di Belvedere on a hill overlooking the Italian city back in the 16th century, has hit out at the superstar couple, and revealed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen This story has a very troubling start, but a pretty satisfying conclusion — if it really is the conclusion. Among the contemptible episodes of student/faculty heckler’s vetoes at commencement ceremonies this year (Condoleezza Rice, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christine Lagarde and others have been disinvited from leading universities following ignorant […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Some religious leaders say America is facing a spiritually dark time. “At the root of America’s problem, we really have a spiritual cancer that’s been eating away at our nation,” Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, told CBN News. Retired Gen. Jerry Boykin, … […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Maybe Jay Leno was fired because his jokes were too close to the truth: IRS: “I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don’t want to get audited by the IRS.” On NSA surveillance: “We wanted a president who listens to all Americans – now we have […]