President of the USA: Nice job if you can get it

President of the USA: Nice job if you can get it

Special to WorldTribune.com Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon One evening in March, during a visit to Italy, President Obama asked the U.S. ambassador to round up a bunch of — and I quote — “interesting Italians” for a dinner at the ambassadorial residence. The history of the property, the Villa Taverna, goes as far back […]

Has Obama finally exhausted all benefits of all doubts?

Has Obama finally exhausted all benefits of all doubts?

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 […]

Where is Marine deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?

Where is Marine deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia’s Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune for trial. Yet, a full decade […]

Unreported except here: Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion

Unreported except here: Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Five years ago, I publicly raised questions about Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion from Blackfoot Company, 1-501 Infantry (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division. A few weeks after his so-called “capture” in late June 2009, three conflicting accounts had surfaced: U.S. officials told the Associated Press Bergdahl had […]

Bergdahl: From the military community, ‘a tidal wave of anger’

Bergdahl: From the military community, ‘a tidal wave of anger’

[I]t’s looking increasingly unlikely that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will receive a hero’s welcome when he returns to the United States after nearly five years in Taliban captivity. From military forums across the country, a groundswell of anger is rising over the Obama administration’s silence on perhaps the most controversial question surrounding the deal that […]

Scammed: Pentagon diverted weapons funding to climate change strategic planning

Scammed: Pentagon diverted weapons funding to climate change strategic planning

Special to WorldTribune.com Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios. Consultants told the military that, by now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable, polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise […]

Open season on ‘every American’: A scandal-ridden administration is now negotiating with terrorists

Open season on ‘every American’: A scandal-ridden administration is now negotiating with terrorists

Special to WorldTribune.com On May 31, a scandal-ridden Barack Obama announced the Taliban had released Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl after five years of captivity. His release follows negotiations in which the Obama administration agreed to trade five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl. Author Brad Thor tweeted a number of responses to this act of […]

Now that the scandal’s over, will VA services improve?

Now that the scandal’s over, will VA services improve?

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, […]

War on Terror: Which side is President Obama on?

War on Terror: Which side is President Obama on?

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 […]