by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2017 Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy has released a report that reviews media coverage of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days. The study analyzed CNN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. European media surveyed included the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Would Kim Jong-Un mind giving Moon Jae-In a break? More than any other South Korean leader in years, Moon would like nothing better than to be the one to bring about North-South reconciliation. Wouldn’t it be great, Moon’s newly appointed former activists must be saying, if Kim Jong-Un invited […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2017 Leftist billionaire George Soros’s recent losses in the stock market haven’t interrupted his spending spree in pursuit of buying high-profile district attorneys’ seats. Soros poured $1.45 million into the Philadelphia district attorney’s race to fund a super PAC in support of a progressive lawyer who has never worked as a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall Readers may note that several reports and evaluations of Mexican violence in 2016 have now been released, in calendar year 2017. As examples: 1. According to statistics of the Mexican government itself, murders in Mexico increased in 2016. See Mexico’s murder rate spiked in 2016 due to ‘ongoing shifts […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Conservatives haven’t fought the Left hard enough “because we keep thinking they will change and be open to reason,” columnist James Lewis wrote for American Thinker. But Democrats only have one playbook – “and they never stop following it,” Lewis wrote in an op-ed published on May 17. “Democrats […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Venezuela deployed 2,000 soldiers to San Cristobal in Tachira state on May 17 in an effort to curb protests against the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro. Most shops and businesses in San Cristobal were closed and guarded by soldiers after widespread looting amid a deepening economic crisis. People […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Lawmakers of both parties praised the appointment of former FBI chief Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the agency’s probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 election. It was left to the White House to point out that the Justice Department had failed to appoint special prosecutors […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 While the left has succeeded in moving President Donald Trump’s agenda to the “back-burner,” they in no way have made the case that the firing of former FBI chief James Comey is any way comparable to Watergate, ex-Nixon aide Pat Buchanan said. Buchanan, author of the newly released book […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 North Carolina progressives are intent on squelching reports of voter fraud in the state by filing lawsuits against citizens who report alleged fraud, according to a report. In a memo to its membership, Democracy NC “appears on a mission … to discourage honest citizens from filing protests and put […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Saudi Arabia and Russia on May 15 said they agreed to extend a deal to cut oil production through March 2018. Following a meeting in Beijing, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak said: “The two ministers agreed to do whatever it takes to achieve […]
