Few Americans See A Brighter Economic Future
More than a third of Americans say they are in worse financial shape than they were last year at this time, and most of them expect to be even worse off 12 months from now.
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December 30, 2015
December 29, 2015
Remembering 2015 By Thomas Sowell
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
December 29, 2015
Voters Give Thumbs Down to GOP-Led Congress
Voters including members of their own party aren’t pleased with the Republicans’ control of both chambers of Congress this past year.
December 29, 2015
Is the West Disintegrating? by Pat Buchanan
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, "Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent," contained this pessimistic prognosis:
December 29, 2015
Supreme Court Grapples, Once Again, With Redistricting By Michael Barone
Fifty-one years ago the Supreme Court handed down its one-person-one-vote decision, requiring that within each state congressional and legislative districts must have equal populations.
December 29, 2015
Voters Say Deportation Policies Not Aggressive Enough
Most voters continue to believe the government isn’t cracking down enough on illegal immigration and still take issue with a central provision in President Obama’s plan to exempt up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation.
December 28, 2015
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the short holiday week ending December 23.
December 28, 2015
Clinton vs. Trump: Still A Dead Heat
Presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain all tied up in a hypothetical matchup heading into 2016.
December 28, 2015
History in Red and Blue (and Green and Purple) By Larry J. Sabato and Tim Robinson
Simple maps can teach a lot. Presidential election maps show at a glance where the nation was at four-year intervals beginning in 1824, when popular voting (of a very restricted sort) became established. John Quincy Adams lost that vote but won the White House anyway in the House of Representatives.
December 28, 2015
Use of Postal Service Up Again This Holiday Season
Americans used the U.S. Postal Service more this holiday season and continue to give the quasi-governmental agency better marks than its private competitors for the way it handles their packages.
December 26, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 26, 2015
Some may consider it politically incorrect to say so, but America remains a strongly Christian nation.
December 25, 2015
Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages by Ted Rall
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8-inch floppies replaced by 5.25-inch medium replaced by little 3.5-inch floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
December 25, 2015
Conservatives' Biographies Show How History Can Move Right by Michael Barone
Biography is one way -- often the most vivid way -- in which people understand history. The beautifully written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt that rolled off the presses and rose in the bestseller lists in the 1950s and 1960s created a template in which the New Deal was central to American history. It was the culmination of what happened before the 1930s and the model for what should and would happen next.
December 25, 2015
It’s Christmas Time In America
Christmas remains the top holiday for most Americans.
December 24, 2015
Religious Attendance Up This Christmas
More Americans will be at religious services this holiday season.
December 24, 2015
14% Still Have Not Yet Begun to Holiday Shop
‘Tis the day before Christmas, and Americans are still shopping at a record pace.
December 23, 2015
Americans Favor Getting the Feds Out of the Classroom
Congress and the president earlier this month scrapped the national education dictates of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law and returned control of school standards to states and localities. This is expected to lessen the focus on standardized testing. Americans, especially those with school-age children, approve.
December 23, 2015
Trump’s Latest Treatise Deploys Subliminally Sinister Attack On Clinton By Charles Hurt
If you think “The Art of the Deal” was a yuuuuuuuuuuge success — and it was — just wait until Donald Trump comes out with his latest masterpiece, “The Art of the Schlong.”
In “The Art of the Deal,” the real estate mogul tutors budding young mogul wannabes on how to make deals so that they, too, can build giant glass skyscrapers emblazoned with their names in gold.
December 23, 2015
Politicians Without Borders by John Stossel
When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff.
December 23, 2015
Are You Traveling This Holiday Season?
Many Americans will be traveling this holiday season, but twice as many will be hosting loved ones.
