Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — After seven years of bitter fighting, twelve million civilians displaced, and more than a half million people killed, Syria’s relentless civil war may be coming to a dramatic conclusion. The final showdown seems set for the north-western province of Idlib, a rebel stronghold, where three […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler HAMBURG — Witnessing the early stages of the World Cup Football extravaganza offers an amazing sporting experience. Indeed, the enthusiasm is palpable and contagious as the early matches kicked off in a near carnival atmosphere. For a full month, soccer games across Russia will lead to the coveted […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto America mourns the passing of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer. He died as gracefully as he lived, penning a grand letter a few weeks before his death, announcing that his battle with cancer was coming to an end. “I believe that the pursuit of truth […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Democrats and their media allies have been engaging in one of the greatest lies in U.S. history. They have painted President Trump as a hateful child-abuser, who is deliberately separating illegal alien children from their migrant parents caught illegally crossing into our country. MSNBC and CNN compared the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Donald Kirk SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un wound up in a victory of style and image over real substance. Trump, hours after his historic meeting with Kim, defended the vague final declaration in a show of bluff and bluster in which he sought to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In the midst of an expanding American economy, record low unemployment rates, and buoyant consumer confidence, the Trump Administration has inadvertently planted the seeds of a global commercial slowdown and political showdown. The steel and aluminum tariffs slapped on imports from our key Transatlantic trading […]
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 […]
