Administration takes fresh look at Alaska’s energy potential

Administration takes fresh look at Alaska’s energy potential

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 The Trump administration said it is re-evaluating Obama-era land management policy that kept millions of acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska off limits to drilling. The Interior Department announced it is looking at areas of the 22.1-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) that can be opened for oil […]

Logging council backs Trump on forest management as factor in wildfires

Logging council backs Trump on forest management as factor in wildfires

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 There is “truth” to President Donald Trump’s statement that poor forest management was a significant factor in the devastating California wildfires, the American Loggers Council said. “President Trump blamed poor forest management for wildfires in California and throughout the West, and there is truth to statements he has made,” […]

Newt Gingrich: Left is winning the ‘linguistic war’

Newt Gingrich: Left is winning the ‘linguistic war’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 A huge takeaway from the 2018 midterm elections is that the Left is “waging – and winning – a linguistic war,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. “ ‘Racism’ is a word that is so commonly used by left-wing news media and politicians to describe conservative positions that one […]

D.C. attorney: Focus of Mueller investigation should be Steele ‘dossier’, not Trump

D.C. attorney: Focus of Mueller investigation should be Steele ‘dossier’, not Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 The attorney for a Russian firm indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for meddling in the 2016 election accused Mueller of “selective prosecution,” saying the ex-British spy who authored the bogus Trump “dossier” should face the same charges. Washington, D.C. attorney Eric Dubelier, who represents Concord Management and Consulting LLC, […]

Sources: U.S. military border prep sparks narco-gang anger at the ‘caravan’

Sources: U.S. military border prep sparks narco-gang anger at the ‘caravan’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 A Mexican drug cartel blames the migrant caravan for slowing its smuggling operations amid the U.S. military deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border, sources said. Todd Bensman, of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), reported on Nov. 19 that the U.S. military presence at the border is curbing drug trafficking […]

The ‘Californication’ of Northern Virginia: Liberal hubs dominating state politics called national trend

The ‘Californication’ of Northern Virginia: Liberal hubs dominating state politics called national trend

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 Three liberal counties are dominating the political landscape in Virginia and “the rest of the state is carried along inexorably, and unwillingly, by the irresistible hordes of Northern Virginia’s superior numbers,” a columnist wrote. “Ole Virginny is no more,” A.J. Rice, CEO of Publius Public Relations, wrote for The […]

Soldier in daring DMZ defection says 80 percent of younger North Koreans not loyal to Kim

Soldier in daring DMZ defection says 80 percent of younger North Koreans not loyal to Kim

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 Most young people in North Korea feel no loyalty toward leader Kim Jong-Un, according to a North Korea soldier who defected across the DMZ in 2017. “Inside the North, people, and especially the young generation, are indifferent to each other, politics and their leaders, and there is no sense […]

‘Citizen control’: Venezuela’s rulers get by with a little tech help from China

‘Citizen control’: Venezuela’s rulers get by with a little tech help from China

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 Venezuela has unveiled a new smart-card ID to track its citizens. The card is manufactured by Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp. The ID card, known as the “carnet de la patria,” or “fatherland card,” transmits data about citizens to government computer servers, Reuters reported on Nov. 18. The report, […]

CNN’s Kirsten Powers damns all white women who voted for Trump: ‘That makes you racist’

CNN’s Kirsten Powers damns all white women who voted for Trump: ‘That makes you racist’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 In a panel discussion which aired on Nov. 16, CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers said that all white women who support President Donald Trump are “racist.” Appearing on “CNN Tonight” with host Don Lemon, Powers, referring to white women who back Trump, said: “They’ll say, ‘Well, I’m not racist. […]

White House sees no ‘military solution’ in Afghanistan; Envoy meets Taliban in Qatar

White House sees no ‘military solution’ in Afghanistan; Envoy meets Taliban in Qatar

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 The Afghan Taliban recently held talks with a U.S. envoy as the Trump administration pushes for an end to a 17-year conflict the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff admitted there is “no military” solution for. U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met with high-ranking members […]