Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has been on alert for a mass-casualty strike by Al Qaida. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama ordered an alert around major airports to protect against the arrival of Al Qaida operatives. Officials said the administration has been warned of an Al Qaida bombing of […]
UNITED NATIONS — There’s an old Washington adage that, if there’s bad news or no news, announce it late on a Friday afternoon. And if that afternoon happens to be Good Friday, you are assured virtually no one will notice. This was the game plan for the Obama Administration’s yet again stalling a decision on […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is on the verge of an historic triumph. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American Left has been bitter about America’s victory in the Cold War. For decades, they preached moral equivalence between the United States and the Soviet Union. In their view, America was to blame for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The global demand for oil was expected to increase in 2014. The International Energy Agency revised its forecast for global oil demand this year. The Paris-based agency, citing an economic recovery by several countries, said demand would increase to 92.6 million barrels per day. “Far from drowning in oil, markets […]
John J. Metzler MONTREAL — The business plan and logic are seemingly simple enough; deliver up to 830,000 barrels of Alberta oil sands petroleum a day to U.S. Gulf coast refineries through a new pipeline. The specifics become more complicated; the 1,900 km oil pipeline from Alberta will cross six American states and go to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell, Creators.com Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually control guns. It does no good to point out to them that the two American cities where rent control laws have […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There used to be an advertising slogan, “We’re number two but we try harder.” Perhaps in the spirit of the times we should now revive the phrase and proclaim, “We’re number twelve, but it’s somebody else’s fault.” Thus when viewing the world’s freest economies, the U.S. has slid from […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner Massachusetts is becoming ground zero for a populist tax revolt. This deep blue state is finally witnessing resistance from its besieged, hard-working taxpayers. And the commonwealth’s venal Democratic establishment — along with ultra-liberal Gov. Deval Patrick — are lashing out in fury. Patrick has presidential ambitions in 2016, viewing himself as the […]
Sol W. Sanders Whether Obamacare continues to implode or dissolves under a Republican landslide in next year’s Congressional and 2016 presidential elections, the debris it leaves behind will be horrendous. It presents new problems for a vast U.S. medical health care system already marginally dysfunctional before President Barack Obama’s misguided intended reform. And one […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia plans to produce shale gas in competition with the United States. [Related story: Number one: U.S. becomes world’s top oil producer, thanks to shale boom, Oct. 18] The state-owned Saudi Aramco said it intends to move toward exploration and production of shale gas in the Gulf Cooperation […]