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January 17, 2018

Selling Hate By John Stossel

Who will warn Americans about hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center.   

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January 17, 2018

Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats By Michelle Malkin

Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass.

January 17, 2018

Most Voters Believe Immigrants Want the American Dream

As so-called Dreamers rush to renew their applications to stay in the United States, more voters now believe most immigrants work hard to pursue the American Dream. They also have a favorable opinion of those who are working toward that dream.

January 17, 2018

Most Voters Believe Immigrants Want the American Dream

As so-called Dreamers rush to renew their applications to stay in the United States, more voters now believe most immigrants work hard to pursue the American Dream. They also have a favorable opinion of those who are working toward that dream.

January 16, 2018

Voters Conflicted Over Family-First Immigration Policy

Lost in the furor over whether President Trump used off-color language in a private discussion of legal immigration is the issue he was addressing: Why isn’t the United States admitting higher skilled, better-educated immigrants? Maybe it’s because voters themselves are conflicted.

January 16, 2018

Support for Offshore Drilling Falls Sharply

The Trump administration has announced that it will allow oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, although Florida quickly obtained an exemption and other states are expected to follow. But voter support for offshore drilling has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 10 years of regular surveying.

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January 16, 2018

Trump: In Immigration Debate, Race Matters By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Trump "said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. ... I cannot believe ... any president has ever spoken the words that I ... heard our president speak yesterday."

So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House.

January 15, 2018

40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty percent (40%) 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 January 11.

January 15, 2018

Just 22% Think Race Relations Are Getting Better

This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Americans have a marginally more promising outlook on race relations than they did six months ago.

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January 15, 2018

CNN's Stephen Miller Incident Proves How Fake News Ignorantly Smears Conservatives By Charles Hurt

Behold, the anatomy of a “fake news” smear.

January 15, 2018

62% Say MLK's Dream Still Not Reality

More Americans than ever believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams of equal opportunity in the country still aren’t a reality.

January 13, 2018

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending on January 13, 2018

Democrats seem to live outrage to outrage in the Trump era, but even they admit it hasn’t been a very effective political strategy.

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January 13, 2018

'The Post': No Way Today's Newspapers Would Publish The Pentagon Papers By Ted Rall

Steven Spielberg's new movie "The Post" depicts a newspaper's decision to defy the government, risk its financial health and imprisonment of its editors in order to report a hard truth and defend the press' First Amendment rights by publishing the Pentagon Papers.

January 12, 2018

Voters See Diminishing Nuclear Threat from North Korea

With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talking more diplomatically and North Korea sending athletes to the Winter Olympics in neighboring South Korea, fears of a nuclear attack from the rogue regime in Pyongyang are lessening here.

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January 12, 2018

Little Rocket Man Wins the Round By Patrick J. Buchanan

After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the "Peace Olympics."

January 12, 2018

Can Democrats in Congress Stop Trump?

Even Democrats aren't overly confident that their legislators in Congress will be able to stop President Trump's agenda.

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January 12, 2018

Is 'Fire and Fury' Fizzling? By Michael Barone

The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of "Fire and Fury" they had ordered was subtitled "The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945." It's a well-regarded 2009 volume by University of Toronto historian Randall Hansen, who is surely grateful for the unanticipated royalties.

January 11, 2018

Most Don't See Celebrities as Good Role Models

Following this year’s Golden Globes, the first award show of Hollywood’s #MeToo era, even fewer Americans see celebrities as good role models.

January 11, 2018

Most Voters Want to Continue State Enforcement of Pot Laws

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced plans to roll back Obama-era protections that ease federal marijuana laws in states where the drug is legalized. But most voters want to keep marijuana regulated at the state level, not a federal one.

January 11, 2018

Most Voters Won't Read New Trump White House Book

Voters are split on whether the new book about President Donald Trump, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” is an attack piece or truth. But most don't plan to read it anyway.