Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen The major media’s account of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case was typical of the way the case has been misreported from the start. The New York Times headline read, “Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations.” Politico led with “SCOTUS sides with Hobby Lobby […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen PARIS — An estimated 50,000 Iranian exiles and supporters from Europe and North America are here to remind the world that no cooperation with the brutal, expansionist regime in Tehran can possibly advance Western interests. This annual gathering of MeK (People’s Mujahedin of Iran), an Iranian resistance group, was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen A few questions for President Barack Obama. At your press conference, you said, “It is in our national security interest not to see an all-out civil war in Iraq.” If that is the case, why did you withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011? Were you motivated by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen President Barack Obama has flouted the law again and again — unilaterally rewriting the health law at least 18 times since passage; changing immigration law by executive fiat (after having explained that to do so would be beyond the scope of his constitutional authority); dictating that union claims should […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Have you seen the “Ready for Hillary” bumper stickers? I’ve seen one already and wondered about the implied insult to the current occupant of the White House. You’re “Ready for Hillary” when the greatest statesman of our age isn’t even halfway through his second term? Are you ready because […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Considering how easy it would be for the Iranian regime to get everything it wants from the current administration, it’s a little startling to see the “supreme leader” brazenly poking his finger into the president’s eye. President Barack Obama’s fond hopes — nurtured since before his first inauguration — […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Though President Barack Obama’s first term was characterized by anemic economic growth, decreasing household income, prolonged joblessness, an unpopular health law, foreign policy blunders and bitter partisanship, the electorate seemed stubbornly unwilling to lay any of it at his feet. As late as July 2013, 35 percent of Americans […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Here’s a not-so-bold prediction: After the press loses interest in the Veterans Affairs scandal, after the investigations have been completed and one or two officials have resigned, nothing will change. Is this cynicism? Not really. It comes down to one’s view of how much government can achieve by bureaucratic, […]
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 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 […]