Police cameras would capture justice for the guilty — be they cop or civilian

Police cameras would capture justice for the guilty — be they cop or civilian

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The Ferguson, Missouri police department released convenience store surveillance tape that showed Michael Brown allegedly stealing some cigars minutes before he was shot by a police officer. Aware that the release of this footage might look like posthumous character assassination of the shooting victim, Captain Ronald Johnson of the […]

Time to cut Palestinians from the UNRWA umbilical cord

Time to cut Palestinians from the UNRWA umbilical cord

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The United Nations plays a supporting role in every war between Hamas and Israel. U.N. spokesmen routinely issue statements, accusations and denials about everyone’s conduct, including their own (most recently they had to account for why they returned rockets, discovered in a U.N. school, to Hamas). Israel was denounced […]

Do-nothing Congress is good; A do-nothing White House would be even better

Do-nothing Congress is good; A do-nothing White House would be even better

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “Meet the Press” featured a segment this week that illustrates the planted liberal axioms that dominate our political culture. The topic was Congress’s failure to “get anything done” this term. Political director Chuck Todd set the stage: “New polling from NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and Marist … […]

Does it matter when Iran kidnaps American citizens and the White House doesn’t care?

Does it matter when Iran kidnaps American citizens and the White House doesn’t care?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Last week, The Washington Post’s Teheran, Iran, correspondent was arrested. The charges are unspecified, but according to the paper, Jason Rezaian, 38; his Iranian wife, Yeganeh Salehi; and two other U.S. citizens were detained. State Department spokesman Marie Harf issued a protest that didn’t even rise to the level […]

Israel supporters should take a closer look at Hillary’s record

Israel supporters should take a closer look at Hillary’s record

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen In the last several weeks, I’ve heard people confidently declare that the 70 percent of Jewish Americans who voted for Obama are finally sorry. I’m skeptical, but even if they are, they’re probably telling themselves that Hillary Clinton would be a better friend to the Jewish state than the […]

Hamas wins back some heavily-damaged credibility by going to war with Israel

Hamas wins back some heavily-damaged credibility by going to war with Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Hamas, with perhaps unwitting help from President Barack Obama, is achieving its war aim: to legitimize Islamic supremacism and Jew-hatred, and take it global. Jews are no longer safe in Europe or even in some places in the U.S. Who now recalls that when Hamas was elected, the world […]

High crimes at the Kremlin: High time for a ‘reset’ on Putin perceptions

High crimes at the Kremlin: High time for a ‘reset’ on Putin perceptions

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 […]

Cleveland could be good for the GOP, if …

Cleveland could be good for the GOP, if …

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 […]

Which side is really being ‘heartless’ toward children flooding over the border?

Which side is really being ‘heartless’ toward children flooding over the border?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “The heartlessness and nativist pandering that have broken America’s immigration system must give way to providing proper food, clothing, shelter and medical care to the Central American children streaming into the country,” so pronounced the editors of the New York Daily News. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. echoed […]