Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them. I […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Is it time for California to go? The ultra-liberal state is openly defying federal immigration law. This has prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a lawsuit blocking California’s sanctuary state laws, hoping the courts will declare them illegal and unconstitutional. Gov. Jerry Brown responded by claiming the Trump […]
Special to WorldTribune , January 29, 2018 Commentary by David Morgan, Asheville Tribune The economic gurus are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s placing a few tariffs on some products; this time on washing machines and solar panels. The general mantra used is that tariffs are a bad idea and that these tariffs are […]
Special to WorldTribune , January 28, 2018 By John T. McNabb This commentary was first published by the North State Journal. The spectacle of the government shutdown underscores the failure of the political class to grasp the depth of contempt with which working Americans view them. To understand the pure intensity of this contempt they […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 As he closes in on one year in office, doesn’t President Donald Trump have “every reason to be rather high on himself”? “What is there to be humble about?” asks R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor in chief of The American Spectator. “In his first year in office he has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ileana Johnson, Fairfax Free Citizen When I left Romania after twenty years of frugal subsistence and tyranny under Ceausescu’s communist regime, I thought the nightmare was over, I was moving to America, the land of freedom and opportunity, and everything would be all right. All I had to do is study […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Hollywood is a moral cesspool. I’ve always known it. Now, with the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it’s official. But the consequences of Harveygate go way beyond Tinseltown. A nuclear bomb has just been detonated in one of the major centers of liberal, Democratic power. Weinstein is an evil, grotesque pervert. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brittany Jennings, September 18, 2017 For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a New England Patriots fan. My father would take me to games when I was growing up. I’ve never missed a game. I even attended the Snow Bowl game in 2001 against the Oakland Raiders. Adam Vinatieri […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpted from Fairfax Free Citizen Dear Editor, Listening to the media, one would believe that chaos rules the land. While there is turmoil, the vast majority of Americans go about their daily affairs unencumbered and seemingly unaffected by current events. Truth is, we are all affected by the anger, the turmoil, and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dear Editor, Fairfax Free Citizen Conservative voters are confused. Conservative Christians are the most confused of all. This shouldn’t be. We observe the political scene. We hear what the electeds say. Then we look on, frustrated because their campaign rhetoric does not align itself with their actions. They work for us. We […]