Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s a bird. It’s a plane! No, it’s a Chinese “weather balloon” probing American airspace! The fascinating but bizarre Chinese “weather balloon” incident has raised disturbing and very unsettling questions about Beijing’s high-altitude breach of American airspace and indeed sovereignty. More troubling, the incident was not just a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 5, 2023 The lingering aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the widening war in Ukraine and the knock-on effects of food and energy shortages, alongside high inflation battered the world economy in 2022. Reflecting these grim realities, the UN has issued its annual World Economic Situation and Prospects […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, February 2, 2023 This past Saturday night, the New York Rangers National Hockey League (NHL) team did something almost unbelievable. Though scheduled to wear LGBTQ “Pride” jerseys during pregame warmups, not one member of the team did so. Another recent example of defying LGBTQ+ “Pride” jersey demands in the NHL […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 3, 2023 Commentary by Ann Schockett A recent Gallup Poll indicates that more than 50 percent of Americans have little or no trust in government. Understandably so with the economy on the brink of a recession, people illegally storming the southern border, serious crime on the rise, and prices at the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau After eight months of an investigation and a dramatic announcement that the leaker of a SCOTUS draft opinion would be found, identified and dealt with in accord with law, the chief investigator has come up empty handed. The unsuccessful gumshoe into this mystery was Col. Gail Curley, 53, who […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 2, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses gray zone tactics worldwide to further its interests. It is particularly active against countries that border its seas — the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Countries affected include Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, February 3, 2023 If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer. JetBlue has its sights on merging […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s seems like a profound contradiction; trying to convince Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities to accept foreign humanitarian help for their own starving population. Thus as beleaguered Afghan civilians endure a brutal winter, the sanctimonious Islamic fundamentalist regime in Kabul has largely restricted international aid agencies because they employ women. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager There are very few things conservatives, liberals and leftists agree on. But if they are irreligious, they all agree that religious Americans are more irrational than irreligious Americans. It is a secular axiom that secularism and secular people are rooted in reason, whereas religion and the religious are rooted in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) berate the Trump tax cuts as “a giveaway to the rich”? Biden and congressional Democrats now want to let expire major planks of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, […]
