Wisconsin win, big lead in California raise GOP spirits

Wisconsin win, big lead in California raise GOP spirits

by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2020 Republicans were elated on Tuesday as Trump-backed candidates rolled to special election victory in Wisconsin and to a big lead in a long-held Democratic congressional seat in California. In Wisconsin, GOP candidate Tom Tiffany won by 14 points in the state’s 7th Congressional District. In California, Republican Mike Garcia […]

Lockdown limbo or reopen the economy?

Lockdown limbo or reopen the economy?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Can we economically sustain a prolonged lockdown?  Well the stunningly high unemployment numbers for April, just over 20 million lost jobs, should answer that question and serve as yet another jolting wake-up call that while we are wisely protecting ourselves from wider exposure to the deadly coronavirus, the […]

Columnist on nation’s error-prone ‘expert’: Step aside, Dr. Fauci

Columnist on nation’s error-prone ‘expert’: Step aside, Dr. Fauci

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 In widely reported remarks, Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an email to The New York Times that he was going to tell senators in his upcoming hearing on the coronavirus that, basically: If America doesn’t listen to me, people will die. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the […]

National trend of defiance: Colorado governor padlocks restaurant after Mother’s Day open

National trend of defiance: Colorado governor padlocks restaurant after Mother’s Day open

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 As coronavirus curves are flattened, business owners are defying extended lockdown orders, contending the greater risk to the public are authoritarian power grabs by Democratic governors. In Colorado, a restaurant in Castle Rock which opened to a huge Mother’s Day crowd on Sunday was shut down for at least […]

Defiance in Michigan: Judge sides with barber, mayor reopens town

Defiance in Michigan: Judge sides with barber, mayor reopens town

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 Day by day, more and more in Michigan are defying what they see as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s draconian coronavirus lockdown order. The barber of Owosso is still in business. The mayor of Perry is reopening city hall and is encouraging businesses in the city to do the same. A […]

DNI Grenell to unmask the Obama administration’s ‘unmaskers’

DNI Grenell to unmask the Obama administration’s ‘unmaskers’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said he has decided to declassify information on Obama administration officials who were behind the “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Reports say Grenell gave the list of Obama-era officials to the Department of Justice last week. It is now […]

‘We are NOT in this together’: Facebook blocks red hot ad

‘We are NOT in this together’: Facebook blocks red hot ad

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 An advertisement which encourages Americans to “take off your mask” and “take back your freedom,” amid “tyrannical” coronavirus lockdowns has been blocked by Facebook. Producers of the ad in their podcast at WashingtonExpose.com explained that word-of-mouth was the only way to get it circulated as Facebook has blocked it. […]

Reporting on North Korea, after all these years, is still pure guesswork

Reporting on North Korea, after all these years, is still pure guesswork

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has dodged a bullet, meaning the onslaught of speculation about whether he was dead or alive, ill or just avoiding the coronavirus. It’s amazing how quickly and easily many of us were taken in by the initial report on the Daily NK, based on […]

Analysis: Why is Cuomo still governor after nursing homes disaster?

Analysis: Why is Cuomo still governor after nursing homes disaster?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s policy of forcing New York’s nursing homes to take in patients infected with the coronavirus added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in the facilities, The Associated Press reported. The nursing homes disaster in New York “is on you, Gov. […]

NBC took liberties with Barr interview: DOJ goes to public with transcript

NBC took liberties with Barr interview: DOJ goes to public with transcript

by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2020 NBC’s Chuck Todd deceptively edited a sound bite from Attorney General William Barr to make it appear as if Barr had said nothing about upholding the rule of law in dismissing the case against Michael Flynn, when in fact he did, the Department of Justice said. DOJ spokesperson Kerri […]