Americans Not Feeling the Love for Valentine's Day
Americans don’t place a lot of importance on Valentine’s Day, and while some look forward to it, for most, it’s just another day.
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February 14, 2018
February 14, 2018
Science, Secrecy and Lies in Oklahoma By Michelle Malkin
As the Oklahoma attorney general's office fights to keep hidden from public view the results of secret hearings on the DNA science flaws and falsehoods in former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw's case, two prominent experts have stepped forward to shed bright light on the government's myriad mind-boggling failures.
February 13, 2018
Voters Wonder Where Conservatives Are in Washington
Senator Rand Paul stood as a lone dissenting voice late last week as Senate leaders rammed through a bipartisan budget that dramatically increases military and domestic spending.
February 13, 2018
Is US Being Sucked Into Syria's War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed.
February 13, 2018
Democrats Still Obsessed with Russia, Other Voters Less So
For Democrats, the possible Trump-Russia connection remains the burning issue of the day. For the rest of voters, pocketbook issues and illegal immigration are priorities.
February 12, 2018
43% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending February 8.
February 12, 2018
Voters Prefer Government Shutdown to More Spending
The government shut down for five- and-a-half hours Friday night as Congress wrestled to agree upon a spending bill to keep the government running, but voters would rather see a shutdown until Congress can cut spending.
February 12, 2018
35% Say #MeToo Movement Has Gone Too Far
The #MeToo movement is sweeping the nation, but a sizable number of Americans think it has gone too far.
February 12, 2018
Swamp Creatures Stir to Life As Big Spending Sparks Bipartisanship By Charles Hurt
Any time you hear Washington talk about bipartisan agreement, America, grab your wallet and run!
February 10, 2018
Why Do The Democrats Take Trump's Trolling Lying Down By Ted Rall
This is advice for the Democrats. Democrats never take my advice. So why do I keep giving it to them?
February 10, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 10, 2018
President Trump at week’s end was enjoying his best favorable ratings since early in his tenure in the White House, while Congress was off on a spending spree.
February 9, 2018
Consumer Spending Update: Confidence Rockets to New Four-Year High
Economic and consumer confidence have jumped to four-year highs.
February 9, 2018
Gentry Liberals Own the Democratic Party By Michael Barone
Amid the brouhahas about the Nunes memo and immigration, an item from Greg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business caught my eye. Demographers crunching census data estimate that Chicago's black population fell to 842,000, while its white non-Hispanic population increased to 867,000. National political significance: In our three largest cities -- New York, Los Angeles and Chicago -- gentry liberals have become the dominant political demographic.
February 9, 2018
Trump -- Middle American Radical By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party.
February 9, 2018
Few Think Russia is Only Olympic Rule-Breaker
Russia has been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics following exposure of a government-run program using performance enhancing drugs, but Americans don’t think they’re the only rule-breakers.
February 8, 2018
Americans Are Tuning in to Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games began today in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the official opening ceremony tomorrow night. Most Americans are planning to watch at least some of the games and feel pride when U.S. athletes take home the gold.
February 8, 2018
50% Think Senior Law Enforcement Officials Broke the Law to Block Trump Presidency
A once-secret memo released last week scrutinizes the FBI and Justice Department officials for their surveillance practices of a former Trump campaign adviser, and half of voters think those officials went too far.
February 8, 2018
Americans Support Paid Family Leave
Twenty-five years after the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted, most Americans support expanding the Act to include government-mandated paid family or medical leave for full-time workers, though less than half say they’ve had to take unpaid leave.
February 8, 2018
Senate 2018: Republicans Still Have Plenty of Targets By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
The victory by Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) in a special election in December did provide Democrats a potential path to a Senate majority, albeit a narrow one. The Democrats need to defend all 26 of the 34 seats they currently hold,[1] and then flip two of the eight Republican-held seats. Those would most likely be Arizona, an open seat, and Nevada, where Sen. Dean Heller (R) is seeking a second term.
February 7, 2018
Voters Now More Confident U.S. Is Winning War Against ISIS
The United States is expected to begin pulling troops out of Iraq after the government there declared victory over the Islamic State Group (ISIS), and more voters now agree that America and its allies have won that war.
