by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 Radio host and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced. One of the most influential media figures in American history, Limbaugh was a giant in conservative politics since “The Rush Limbaugh Show” began in 1988. He […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 The mass internment being carried out against the Uighur population in China is merely a “different norm,” Joe Biden said during his CNN town hall on Tuesday. Biden also said he would not “speak out” against China’s brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Asked about his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 Millions of Texans remained without power amid sub-freezing temperatures on Wednesday. The state scrambled to open “warming centers” as controlled outages were implemented to protect the grid from crashing from a record surge in demand as temperatures plunged to near zero in some areas. The state’s grid operator, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 President Donald Trump granted TC Energy a presidential permit to construct and operate the XL pipeline in March 2019. In a Jan. 20, 2021 executive order, Joe Biden revoked that permit. “It basically shut a lot of what we were doing down overnight,” Jeff Birkeland, the CEO of West […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 In what it calls an effort to “address the issues of racism, sexism and other destructive biases and their impact on naval readiness,” the U.S. Navy is requiring that all sailors pledge to “advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy.” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler When the new Biden Administration spoke grandly of “restoring America’s place in the world,” that bold new relationship with Canada restarted with an insult. Indeed, while the United States and Canada are among the world’s best neighbors, trading partners, and security allies, the governments in Washington and Ottawa […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2021 In their pursuit of a permanent majority in Congress, Democrats are lining up to sponsor a push for Washington, D.C. statehood. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting House member representing the District, has reintroduced the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which has 210 Democrat co-sponsors. The Senate version of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2021 Soon after the Jan. 20 inauguration, Joe Biden’s team issued a “comprehensive threat assessment” on “domestic violent extremism.” Conducted jointly by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence, the “assessment” does not include the violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter movements which burned and looted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2021 In a Jan. 12, 2017 email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-FBI Director James Comey said of Christopher Steele’s dossier on alleged Trump-Russia collusion: “We are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting.” On the same day, Comey contradicted that sworn avowal by telling the FISA court […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 16, 2021 Radio host and Trump supporter Eric Metaxas noted in a recent interview that he doesn’t believe Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president. “There will always be an asterisk next to him for me until — if — things are clarified,” Metaxas, who has been dubbed “America’s #1 Bad […]
