Cruel and Stupid By John Stossel
President Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes.
This is both cruel and stupid.
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May 17, 2017
May 16, 2017
Voters Still Support Allowing Health Insurance To Be Sold Across State Lines
There’s even stronger support for House Republicans’ proposal to allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, but voters remain divided on proposed reforms for medical liability and malpractice.
May 16, 2017
Americans' Trust in Their Doctors Reaches New High
As the future of the U.S. healthcare system is in limbo, the number of Americans who trust their doctor has jumped to a new high.
May 16, 2017
Comey & The Saturday Night Massacre By Patrick J. Buchanan
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, said Marx.
On publication day of my memoir of Richard Nixon's White House, President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Instantly, the media cried "Nixonian," comparing it to the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre.
May 15, 2017
37% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending May 11.
May 15, 2017
51% Disagree With Trump’s Firing of Comey
Voters aren’t overly impressed with James Comey’s performance as FBI director, but just over half disagree with President Trump’s decision to fire him.
May 15, 2017
Americans Are Closely Conflicted Over Employment Prospects
The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen to a 10-year low, but Americans remain divided over where that rate is headed from here. With Republicans controlling the White House and Congress, GOP adults are now far more confident that unemployment will be lower in a year’s time, while Democrats are noticeably less cheery.
May 13, 2017
Trump Voters' Message: We Exist by Ted Rall
I think it was over Thanksgiving dinner. My mother's best friend, a dear woman who has been nothing but good to me, decided to poke some gentle fun, Dayton Ohio-style, at me.
May 13, 2017
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 13, 2017
Given the passage of the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in the House last week, one might have thought that health care would dominate the headlines this week. But news moves fast in the Trump administration.
May 12, 2017
Fewer Americans See Motherhood As a Woman’s Most Important Role
Few Americans see Mother’s Day as the nation's most important holiday, and the number who consider motherhood the most important job for a woman is at its lowest level yet.
May 12, 2017
What Is America's Goal in the World? by Patrick J. Buchanan
For the World War II generation there was clarity.
May 12, 2017
Consumer Spending Update: Appetite for Spending Cools As Summer Approaches
Once hot sentiments on the direction of the economy and personal finances following President Trump’s inauguration are now cooling, and so is consumer spending.
May 12, 2017
James Comey Is the Latest Victim of the Clintons By Michael Barone
Why did President Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey now? The answer, as my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York has argued, is that he waited until after his impeccably apolitical deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, was in place as Comey's direct superior. Rosenstein was confirmed April 25, and his memorandum titled "Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI" was appended to Trump's firing letter exactly two weeks later.
May 11, 2017
Fewer Americans Know Someone Out of Work
While most Americans still say they know someone out of a job, that number has fallen to its lowest level yet, as has the number who know someone who has given up on the job market. But even though the national unemployment rate has fallen to a 10-year low, adults aren’t totally convinced the job market is better than it was a year ago.
May 11, 2017
For Comey, a Creature of the Swamp, a Deserved Dunking By Charles Hurt
This is what happens if you mess with the swamp. All the swamp creatures begin snapping and writhing and yowling like angry cats in the dark.
For the better part of a year now, the only thing everyone in Washington could agree upon was that now-ex FBI Director Jim Comey was an overreaching, underperforming dolt.
May 11, 2017
House 2018: Health Care Vote Gives Democrats Another Midterm Argument By Kyle Kondik
Democrats are hopeful that Republicans’ vote last week to pass the American Health Care Act provides them an argument to use in next year’s election. Only 20 House Republicans voted against the bill, which is not polling well and which Democrats are angling to use as a cudgel against the GOP.
May 11, 2017
57% Say Nuclear War Likely This Century
As tensions rise with North Korea and Russia, Americans suspect a nuclear war is coming, but they’re also more confident than they have been in years that the United States will still be the world’s dominant power at the end of the century.
May 10, 2017
Voters Like Their Health Care, But Still Want Law Fixes
As President Trump and the Republicans’ new health care plan makes its way through the Senate, voters admit they like the health care they’re currently receiving but still see the need to fix Obamacare.
May 10, 2017
Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America? by Michelle Malkin
Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:
May 10, 2017
Voters See Higher Costs, Lower Quality Care With Single-Payer System
Support for a single-payer health care system reached a new high despite voters’ views that it will increase health care costs and hurt the quality of care.
