by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2018 “We’re not seeing our finest hour of governance,” a columnist noted after the Dec. 17 sentencing spectacle in the Michael Flynn saga. Judge Emmet Sullivan delayed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and berated Flynn as treasonous in the process, before later doing a 180 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2018 The Clinton Foundation does not operate as a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation as required and is not entitled to non-profit status, forensic investigators told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Dec. 13. The foundation operates as a “family partnership,” John Moynihan and Lawerence W. Doyle, both graduates of the Catholic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2018 North Carolina Republicans have vowed to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a state voter ID bill before the current legislative sessions ends and they lose their super-majority. A referendum calling for the state’s constitution to add an amendment requiring in-person voter photo ID was approved last month with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2018 Rep. Martha McSally, who last month lost a close election for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, has been appointed to fill the seat of late Sen. John McCain. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced the appointment of McSally on Dec. 18. McSally will have to run to keep the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2018 In response to a defamation lawsuit brought against him, anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele said the Perkins Coie law firm hired him to help Hillary Clinton challenge the results of the 2016 presidential election. Meanwhile, the Yahoo News reporter who was among the first to break the news of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2018 The University of North Carolina board of governors on Dec. 14 rejected a plan to house the Silent Sam Confederate statue in a proposed $5.3 million history center on the Chapel Hill campus. Citing concerns over public safety and the use of state funds for the project, the board […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2018 The U.S. Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch which is under President Donald Trump. And yet that agency is at war with the president as is the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York City, columnist Ira Stoll observed in the New York […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2018 President Donald Trump bypassed the Sunday talk shows with a tweetstorm on Dec. 16 which covered “collusion,” FBI tactics in the Russia investigation and the case of a U.S. military major charged with murder. The president as usual focused on details omitted by “Mainstream Media” non-stop assaults on him […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2018 U.S. government workers are paid more, get better perks and have more options for healthcare than the private sector. And, even the most incompetent of federal workers are nearly “impossible to fire,” according to an analysis by Reagan-era personnel director Donald J. Devine. “The current system is long overdue […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2018 In the wake of the Oct. 27 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto is pushing for gun confiscation along with bans on commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms and “high capacity” magazines. Three gun control bills are being introduced to the Pittsburgh City Council, according to a […]
