Stark choice: Can Americans explain their vote to the future generations?
Special to WorldTribune.com 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound […]
Is the United States of America terminally ill?
September 5, 2016 Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager All #NeverTrump conservatives maintain that their decision to never vote for Donald Trump is guided by their principles. I have no doubt that this is true. But some of them seem to imply, or at least might think, that conservatives who vote for Trump have abandoned their […]
Gen. George Washington’s miraculous retreat from Long Island: He ordered his troops to fast and pray
Aug. 29, 2016 King George III’s British army was forced to evacuate Boston. They headed to New York. General George Washington responded by moving American troops to New York and fortifying Brooklyn Heights. Enthusiasm was high as Washington’s ranks swelled to nearly 20,000. Before long, hundreds of British ships filled New York’s harbor, carrying 32,000 […]
A 1967 solar flare led NORAD to conclude its early-warning radars were being jammed by the Soviet Union
On May 23, 1967, … all three of the United States’ ballistic missile early-warning radars became simultaneously jammed. Located in the high-latitude areas of Alaska, Greenland, and the United Kingdom, these radars were designed to detect incoming Soviet missiles, and any attack or disruption of these radars were considered to be an act of war. […]
Rights lawyer on U.S. ‘indifference’ to plight of Mideast Christians: Doesn’t want to look like ‘crusader army’
July 11,2016 SILVER SPRING, Maryland – The United States government is afraid to work directly with persecuted Iraqi and Syrian Christians because it doesn’t want America to look like a “crusader army,” prominent human rights lawyer and religious freedom advocate Nina Shea said Friday. … Shea, the director of the Washington-based Hudson Institute’s Center for […]
Cannibalism, sexual perversions, animal abuse: The descent of Middle Eastern Islam into a primeval abyss
The Islamic world of the Middle East is sinking into the gloomy and forgotten past: the Bronze Age, the world of slavery, human sacrifice, pedophilia, sexual sacred traditions, beliefs in conspiracies and now the most terrible — ritual cannibalism Special from WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy In the 90s, when working on an article about homeless […]
Guarding the ‘Unknowns’ 24/7, ‘no matter the weather’, honors ‘real sacrifices
May 29, 2016 Producers of the documentary “The Unknowns,” which releases on Memorial Day, have given us a reminder that the national holiday is not just another day off. “Memorial Day comes around every year, and unless you know someone who was killed fighting for our country it becomes just a nice day off,” producer […]
Rise of ‘idiocracy’: It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager As of tonight, we may know if Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential candidate. And, barring unforeseeable events, it is certain that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. Those are two reasons — of many, unfortunately — why, other than the first years of the Civil War, when […]
