Free speech fight: Think tank won’t submit to government demands to turn over climate change documents

Free speech fight: Think tank won’t submit to government demands to turn over climate change documents

Special to WorldTribune.com A public policy think tank says a government subpoena demanding documents related to its research on climate change is a blatant infringement of its First Amendment rights. Others see it as another step by the Obama administration to not only silence but criminalize so-called “climate change denial.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) […]

Cruz on the new DrudgeReport: Apparently ‘Roger Stone now decides’ what get published

Cruz on the new DrudgeReport: Apparently ‘Roger Stone now decides’ what get published

Special to WorldTribune.com GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz said in a radio interview on April 11 that the Drudge Report has “become the attack site for the Donald Trump campaign.” In an interview on The Mike Slater Show on KFMB 760 AM in California, host Mike Slater asked Cruz: “What do you think of Drudge Report lately? Not […]

New book: ‘Shockingly fresh’ scars in relations with Hillary have Michelle anxious to exit White House

New book: ‘Shockingly fresh’ scars in relations with Hillary have Michelle anxious to exit White House

Special to WorldTribune.com “Hurt feelings” and “resentment” from the 2008 presidential campaign continue to linger in the relationship between former first ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, the author of a new book said. “The 2008 presidential campaign left deep and lasting scars on both the Clinton and the Obama camps, and they are still […]

Panama ‘papers’: What did the U.S. Treasury Dept. know and when did it know it?

Panama ‘papers’: What did the U.S. Treasury Dept. know and when did it know it?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There are more questions than answers, at least so far, in the leak of bits and pieces of what is said to be 11.5 million documents from, an incredibly and again allegedly corrupt Panamanian law firm. The first gleanings from “the papers” has already toppled the prime minister […]

Red-faced Bill Clinton yells at Black Lives Matter protesters

Red-faced Bill Clinton yells at Black Lives Matter protesters

Special to WorldTribune.com An agitated and red-faced Bill Clinton defended his record and his wife’s past statements when Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted a campaign event in Philadelphia on April 7. The protesters confronted the former president, saying the 1994 criminal justice reform bill he signed into law ended up hurting African-Americans. Clinton insisted that […]

Mexico’s president replaces ambassador, says Trump must be ‘taken seriously’

Mexico’s president replaces ambassador, says Trump must be ‘taken seriously’

Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump has succeeded in getting Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s attention. Spurred by Trump’s tough talk, which includes building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it, Nieto has dispatched a new ambassador and a crisis-communications expert to Washington to strengthen the “relations, promotion and image of our country” in […]

Breakthrough south of the border: Mexicans freed from Pemex monopoly at gas stations

Breakthrough south of the border: Mexicans freed from Pemex monopoly at gas stations

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The news that Mexico is moving one more step to break the monopoly of Petróleos Mexicanos [Pemex], the government-owned producer and until now monopoly retailer, is big and good news. With the world’s tenth largest economy, Mexican growth at between four and five percent over the past few […]

Trump details how he’ll get Mexico to pay for border wall

Trump details how he’ll get Mexico to pay for border wall

Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump plans to use a strategy that includes the Patriot Act, tariffs on imports and raising visa fees to get Mexico to pay for a wall on the U.S.’s southern border. “We have the moral high ground here, and all the leverage,” a memo released by the Trump campaign on April […]

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton blew a gasket recently when a Greenpeace activist challenged the Democratic front-runner on her insatiable taste for campaign cash from major fossil fuel companies. At a March 31 rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Greenpeace activist Eva Resnick-Day asked Clinton, “Will you act on your […]

Supporters of Oregon ranchers say feds caused damage at refuge

Supporters of Oregon ranchers say feds caused damage at refuge

Special to WorldTribune.com Witnesses at Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge who were on hand during the standoff earlier this year between ranchers and government agents say the agents were responsible for damage caused to the refuge. The eyewitnesses made their case during four simultaneous news conferences in four states on March 29. They disputed the U.S. […]