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                            January 28, 2016How Likely Is Hillary Clinton To Be Indicted?
The FBI has been investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server while secretary of State in order to determine whether she mishandled classified information, with some reports suggesting the Democratic presidential front-runner may be indicted. Most voters still believe it’s likely Clinton broke the law by sending and receiving classified information through the server, but they are far less convinced that serious charges will be brought against her.
January 27, 2016So What If Trump Skips A Debate
Donald Trump plans to sit out the final Republican debate before the Iowa Caucus on Monday. Does it really matter?

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                            January 27, 2016Is Hillary's Campaign Really in Trouble?
Democrats blame the media for the perception that Hillary Clinton's campaign is stumbling, but voters in general aren't so sure. All agree, however, that there's no need yet for Joe Biden or some other major Democrat to jump into the race for the party's presidential nomination.
January 27, 2016A Tale of Two Tapes: Teen Cruz and Terror-Coddler Obama By Michelle Malkin
The crack media buzzed this week with the discovery of a totally front-page, news-breaking, breathtaking videotape.   
January 27, 2016No Cure In Sight For Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome Sweeping Elite By Charles Hurt
Beware the latest nasty virus sweeping the East Coast, particularly the most elite citadels of New York City and Washington, D.C.
It is a fast-moving disease, highly contagious and attacks the nervous system. Early stages are inexplicable, fast eye-blinking, light palsy, stammering and overbearing snobbery. Sometimes redness of the face and shortness of breath accompany.

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                            January 27, 2016Voters Strongly Favor Crackdown on Those Who Overstay Visas
A new government report says that over 500,000 visitors to the United States overstayed their legal visas last year and didn’t go home. Most voters think those who overstay their visas are a serious national security threat and that the feds need to take stronger steps to deport them.
January 27, 2016Running on Empty by John Stossel
Cars run on fuel. Politicians run on votes, and they'll do almost anything to get them. That includes supporting mandates that force us to use ethanol, a fuel made from corn that Iowa farmers grow.

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                            January 26, 2016Are Democratic Voters Feeling the Bern?
Recent polls are showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders surging ahead of Hillary Clinton in key states like Iowa and New Hampshire, but are Democratic voters taking this news seriously?
January 26, 2016The Rejection Election By Pat Buchanan
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump.  
January 26, 2016The Demand for Villains by Thomas Sowell
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.

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                            January 26, 2016Is It Good or Bad That Most Teachers Are In Unions?
Detroit public school teachers are taking "sick-outs" in huge numbers in part to protest their pay, causing school shutdowns throughout the city and illustrating the power of public employee unions. Most Americans still agree that teachers are underpaid and have a slightly more positive view of teachers' unions these days.
January 26, 2016Americans Tired of Elites Considering Them Stupid and Vicious By Michael Barone
How stupid and vicious do they think we are? That's a question that I think explains a lot of things about politics and society today -- and about this year's unpredicted presidential race.
The "us" in that question are ordinary citizens and the "they" are political and media elites who hold them in contempt -- which they do over and over again by trying to obfuscate and cover up the source and motives of terrorist attacks.

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                            January 25, 201632% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending January 21.

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                            January 25, 201648% of GOP Voters Prefer A Candidate Without Political Experience
The good news for Donald Trump is that nearly half of Republicans say they’d rather vote for a candidate who has never held political office over one with political experience. The bad news is that other voters don’t share that view nearly as strongly.

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                            January 25, 2016Benghazi Movie Is Much Hotter Ticket for GOPers Than For Democrats
The names Obama and Clinton never appear in “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” but Republicans are still twice as likely as Democrats to have the new movie on their viewing list. The film details the on-the-ground circumstances surrounding the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12, 2012, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

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                            January 23, 2016What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 23, 2016
It isn’t just Donald Trump. A whole lot of voters are angry at the current policies of the federal government. Can you blame them?
January 22, 2016Bernie Sanders Could Win By Ted Rall
The independent senator from Vermont says the economic system is rigged against working-class Americans. He's right.
The electoral political system is a subsidiary of those who rule the economy. Which is why Bernie Sanders never stood a chance. The political system was rigged against him.
January 22, 2016Trump Change: Trump Still Running Strong With Iowa Looming
Following Sarah Palin’s endorsement and with just over a week to go until the Iowa caucus, Republican voters are more strongly convinced than ever that Donald Trump will be their party’s presidential nominee. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
January 22, 2016Is the Spectre of Trump Haunting Davos? by Pat Buchanan
The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.
January 22, 2016Do Emotions Trump Facts? By Thomas Sowell
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20 years -- TWENTY YEARS -- was a follower of a preacher who poured out his hatred for America in the most gross gutter terms.