We the people have allowed a Big Brother-Internet monolith to usurp our freedom

We the people have allowed a Big Brother-Internet monolith to usurp our freedom

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto For centuries, in every society around the world, citizens have by and large believed that a higher power watches their every move. “The eyes of God see all,” goes the Christian saying. Yet, for a brief moment in time, from the dawn of the widespread use of the Internet […]

The real scandal: According observer status to the world’s most powerful leader

The real scandal: According observer status to the world’s most powerful leader

Sol W. Sanders   One of the more bizarre aspects of the current deluge of Washington scandals is that their very numbers permit President Barack Obama to finesse and continue to play a role as No. 1 observer and chief political fundraiser. The almost weekly additions to news of the administration’s dereliction of duty and […]

Ailes on America: ‘We are in a storm, the mast is broken, the compass is barely functioning, and there is a big damned hole in the boat!’

Ailes on America: ‘We are in a storm, the mast is broken, the compass is barely functioning, and there is a big damned hole in the boat!’

Special to WorldTribune.com Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes was awarded the 10th Bradley Prize on June 12 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Following are his prepared remarks: “America needs all of us to leave here tonight, renewed in our spirit and determination to turn this country forward to the future. I won’t […]

Who is NSA ‘whistleblower’ Edward Snowden, really?

Who is NSA ‘whistleblower’ Edward Snowden, really?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The fingerprints of America’s enemies and adversaries are all over the disclosures about the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program. It is significant that NSA contract employee Edward Snowden would flee to Hong Kong — controlled by China — and that he would select Glenn Greenwald, a far-left columnist, as his […]

Not so superpowerful: Obama, Xi talk but the days of grand summits are past

Not so superpowerful: Obama, Xi talk but the days of grand summits are past

Sol W. Sanders   There was less than met the eye at the two-day summit of China’s Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama. Neither party was in a position to tackle the growing list plaguing the relationship between the superpower and the superpower-wannabe. That might or might not have been a product of their particular […]

Savage outraged by ‘zero reaction’ to 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Savage outraged by ‘zero reaction’ to 2011 helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Radio talk-show host Michael Savage is furious, calling for “someone to go to prison” for the tragedy that occurred Aug. 6, 2011 in Afghanistan. A Chinook helicopter carrying 30 American service members, including a contingent of elite SEALs was shot down in suspicious circumstances. The incident took place in […]

Fix IRS corruption: Enforce Fourth Amendment protecting against ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’

Fix IRS corruption: Enforce Fourth Amendment protecting against ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Matt Barber Sir John Dalberg-Acton famously observed: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” No federal agency enjoys more power than the “absolute power” wielded by the Internal Revenue Service. It’s little wonder, then, that under this power-drunk Obama regime, the IRS has become “corrupted absolutely.” It’s become the […]

Oklahoma survivors remind U.S. of its founding spirit, now banished in D.C.’s ‘golden ghettoes’

Oklahoma survivors remind U.S. of its founding spirit, now banished in D.C.’s ‘golden ghettoes’

Sol W. Sanders   A couple of decades ago when that temple of conspicuous consumption, Neiman Marcus, opened another store in metropolitan Washington, my old friend and astute political observer, the late Nat McKitterick, warned me we were lost. For it was about that time when “a political class” was becoming apparent in the nation’s […]

Woe is not us: From one new energy revolution (shale gas) to another (fire ice)

Woe is not us: From one new energy revolution (shale gas) to another (fire ice)

Sol W. Sanders   As the shale gas revolution begins to ripple through, reordering the world economy, another fossil fuel revolution is in the offing which will again torpedo most conventional wisdom concerning energy. So-called “peak oil”, the end of petroleum exhausted by expanding consumption and diminishing discoveries, the love story of environmental fanatics, has […]

The IRS as political tool: It started with the Kennedy White House

The IRS as political tool: It started with the Kennedy White House

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Republicans are getting tripped up by the media when challenged about evidence of President Obama’s personal involvement in the IRS scandal. Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, who chairs the House committee looking into the IRS, “admitted there was no evidence” linking Obama to the IRS scandal, as MSNBC described […]