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 […]

Still fighting: The Delphi workers Obama robbed

Still fighting: The Delphi workers Obama robbed

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin The White House pretended to champion American workers this week with gimmicky initiatives on federal job training and “workplace innovation.” But far from the Beltway dog-and-pony show, a group of American workers ruthlessly shafted by the Obama administration was finally getting some real support — and inching toward justice. […]

Shining a light on the Left’s dark money managers: Meet Philip Gara LaMarche

Shining a light on the Left’s dark money managers: Meet Philip Gara LaMarche

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Philip Gara LaMarche is a secretive political operative who funnels billions of dollars from undisclosed donors to nonprofits and astroturf groups. But you won’t hear unhinged Harry Reid railing Queegishly about him on the Senate floor. Why? Here’s why: LaMarche is a militant leftist philanthropist. He’s a protected elite […]

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 […]

Playing political games with the nation’s future

Playing political games with the nation’s future

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell In a recent confrontation between protesters against the illegal flood of unaccompanied children into the United States and counter-protests by some Hispanic group, one man from the latter group said angrily, “We are as good as you are!” One of the things that make the history of clashes over […]

‘No sign of shock or shame’: Where are the conscientious objectors to shooting down a civilian airliner?

‘No sign of shock or shame’: Where are the conscientious objectors to shooting down a civilian airliner?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager When I was a graduate student at Columbia University’s Russian Institute, there was a great debate: Was the communist Soviet Union an organic Russian development or was it largely a cancer imposed on it? Those who held the organic view argued that the change from czar to commissar was […]

Beijing toughens PLA command in Hong Kong

Beijing toughens PLA command in Hong Kong

Special to WorldTribune.com Miles Yu, Washington Times Maj. Gen. Liu Xiaojun, the high-flying commanding officer of the People’s Liberation Army contingent in freewheeling Hong Kong, was abruptly relieved of command recently and reassigned to the Guangzhou Military Region in a new position believed to be mostly ceremonial. His replacement is a Russian-trained PLA general known […]

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 […]

Iraq in retrospect: Taking names and keeping score . . .

Iraq in retrospect: Taking names and keeping score . . .

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without […]