Special to WorldTribune.com Americans’ confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured attitudes on the subject for 40 years. The 2014 General Social Survey finds only 23 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court, 11 percent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen “Traitors!” screamed the headline of the New York Daily News. “Beneath the dignity of the institution I revere,” huffed Vice President Joe Biden. “Dangerous and irresponsible,” opined The Washington Post’s David Ignatius. President Obama offered that it was “ironic” that the senators were on the same side as supposed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Tax season is stressful enough. But if you are like countless miserable Americans trapped in the Obamacare 1095-A abyss, it’s hell on stilts on a Segway teetering over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The screw-ups, incompetence and bureaucratic blame avoidance over the health insurance exchange tax forms […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are blessed with a talented crowd of potential candidates this cycle. Fine. But here’s my case for why only one of them is likely to win the general election. Forget the triumphalism that followed 2014. It will do the GOP exactly as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Gov. Scott Walker has leapt to the top of polls in Iowa. As day follows night, he has moved to the center of the liberal press’s crosshairs. This is the world we inhabit: When a Democrat is perceived as popular, the press discovers layers of humor and elan we […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on “right-wing” terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN’s hands last week during the farcical White House summit on ‘Don’t Say Islamic Extremism’. Your tax dollars are once again hard at work — defaming conservatives, deflecting from worldwide […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell The firestorm of denunciation of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for having said that he did not think Barack Obama loved America, is in one sense out of all proportion to that remark — especially at a time when there are much bigger issues, including wars raging, terrorist […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Rev. Franklin Graham said to a Fox News audience that President Obama is seriously understating the Islam tie to recent acts of terrorism around the world — but no wonder, he “only knows Islam.” … “His mother was married to a Muslim. His father was a Muslim,” Mr. Graham said during […]