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 […]
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 […]
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 … […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]