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 […]

Major media gets its facts wrong, again, on major Supreme Court decision

Major media gets its facts wrong, again, on major Supreme Court decision

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 […]

Wishful thinking about Iranian disinformation

Wishful thinking about Iranian disinformation

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 […]

If you could spare a moment, Mr. President, a few questions please

If you could spare a moment, Mr. President, a few questions please

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 […]

So, is anyone going to call out President Obama for repeatedly violating the U.S. Constitution?

So, is anyone going to call out President Obama for repeatedly violating the U.S. Constitution?

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 […]

‘America cannot do a damn thing’: Really Mr. Obama?

‘America cannot do a damn thing’: Really Mr. Obama?

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 — […]