Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Look out, everyone: The nation’s school lunch lady, Michelle Obama, is mad. With her federal nutrition program under fire across the country and now on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Obama put out a “forceful” call to arms this week to “health activists,” according to The Washington Post. She’s cracking the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Is the election of a pro-business, pro-American, growth-oriented prime minister in the world’s largest democracy good news or bad news for the world’s oldest democracy? We in that oldest democracy are currently governed by the Democrats, a party that has more in common with the defeated Congress party in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Sarah Palin on Monday mocked the media and liberals for the way they reacted to Republican strategist Karl Rove’s recent questions about the health of Hillary Rodham Clinton…[:] “Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right – scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin At least 40 American veterans are dead thanks to bureaucratic delays at Veterans Affairs clinics. But you wouldn’t know it from VA Secretary Gen. Eric Shinseki’s bland and bloodless demeanor at a Senate hearing Thursday. He droned on like an apathetic office manager fielding complaints about the copier being […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Matthew Continetti, The Washington Free Beacon Reading the New York Times’ report on the defenestration of the paper’s executive editor, Jill Abramson, and the coronation, at a hastily arranged meeting Wednesday, of her replacement Dean Baquet, I could not escape the feeling that the Soviet press must have covered the comings […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant woman to death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Twenty-seven-year-old Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who is already the mother of a 20-month-old son, was convicted of apostasy on Sunday and given four days to abandon her faith. On Thursday, Judge Abbas al-Khalifa […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen There’s a debate among economists about why a college degree is worth so much. That the credential is valuable is not in doubt. According to the Pew Research Center, college graduates earn about $17,500 more annually than high school grads. Why? The “human capital” school believes that students learn […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen It’s a cliche to say that Washington, D.C., is “out of touch” with voters, but there’s something to it. Arguably, in 2012, the Republican Party seemed focused on a subject — debt — that wasn’t a high priority for average Americans. Sincere Republicans (including this columnist) believe it should […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The complexion of the National Football League changed last Saturday after Michael Sam became the first openly gay player to be drafted. … With the league and the media seemingly embracing Sam, attention has turned to a player that’s not currently playing – Tim Tebow – and raising questions if there is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin When Obamacare operatives aren’t busy trashing the private health insurance market and squandering billions on useless technology, they’re busy … being idle. File the latest example of government health care profligacy under “Caution: Your tax dollars not at work.” According to at least one Obamacare paper-pusher, employees at an […]