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February 26, 2016Trump's Rivals Must Make the Case for Themselves By Michael Barone
Does Donald Trump's big win in the Nevada caucuses mean he's the inevitable Republican nominee? He has made himself the favorite and could sew up the nomination with the first winner-take-all primaries March 15. But it's not inevitable that he will become the nominee. The question is how others can prevent it.
Trump won 46 percent in Nevada; Marco Rubio won 24 percent, and Ted Cruz won 21 percent. That's in line with polling, which showed Nevada to be one of the best Trump states.

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                            February 26, 2016Trump Change: All Signs Point To 'The Donald'
Decisive victories in South Carolina and Nevada have Republican voters more certain than ever that Donald Trump will be their party’s nominee heading into Super Tuesday.

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                            February 25, 2016Home Is Where the Harm Is
There’s a reason why they call it homeland security.

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                            February 25, 2016Most Voters Still Say No to Closing Guantanamo
President Obama this week renewed his effort to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Most voters still oppose that idea, don’t want the prisoners being jailed here and think the ones that have been released already are again a threat to the United States.
February 25, 2016Democrats 2016: From South Carolina to the Ides of March, Part Two By Kyle Kondik
This is the second part of a two-part series analyzing the flood of primaries and in both parties from now through March 15. Last week we looked at the Republicans, and this week we look at the Democrats.

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                            February 25, 2016Few Fear an IRS Audit
Americans don't trust the IRS, but they're less worried this year about being audited by the feds.

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                            February 24, 2016More Plan to File Their Taxes on Time
With the April 18 deadline still nearly two months away, Americans are more confident they’ll file their taxes on time.
February 24, 2016Starving on the Prosciutto-and-Brie Poverty Diet by Michelle Malkin
Heed the cry of an entitled young American hipster: Woe is me, me, me, me, me!

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                            February 24, 2016The Pope vs. Trump: What Do Voters Say?
Voters strongly disagree with Pope Francis that those who support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border are not Christians and don't much like prominent religious leaders telling them how to vote.
February 24, 2016Establishment seeks U.S.S. Marco Rubio to save it from Donald Trump By Charles Hurt
The Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome treatment facilities simply cannot handle the patient load. By Super Tuesday, there will be no beds left and white people wearing Brooks Brothers suits and tassel loafers will be wandering the streets of New York and D.C. with bloodshot eyes.
February 24, 2016Joy and Bad Law By John Stossel
According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won't win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I'm rooting for her, though -- not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, "Joy," celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship.  

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                            February 24, 2016Get Over It, GOP: Trump’s the Nominee
Donald Trump carried the Nevada Republican caucus yesterday by a two-to-one margin over his nearest rival, Senator Marco Rubio. It was his third state win in a row after his narrow second-place finish in the initial Iowa caucus and strongly suggests that the most improbable presidential candidate in years is ready to “run the table” through the remaining primaries.

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                            February 23, 2016Border Control Still Top Immigration Priority For Most Voters
Most voters continue to favor stricter border control over granting legal status to those already here illegally and believe amnesty will just encourage more illegal immigration.
February 23, 2016Paranoid Politics By Thomas Sowell
Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity -- or lack of validity -- of the arguments these candidates are using.
February 23, 2016February Clarifies Both Parties' Nomination Races By Michael Barone
In 2008, Barack Obama's great victories in February primaries -- Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin -- gave him an unstoppable delegate lead for the Democratic nomination. In 2012, Mitt Romney's wins in Florida (technically on Jan. 31) and Michigan sent him on his way to the Republican nomination.   

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                            February 23, 2016Trump’s Lead Grows with Jeb Out of the Race
With Jeb Bush out, Donald Trump has widened his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
February 23, 2016Nationalism and Populism Propel Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary.
Political analysts pointed out repeatedly that if all of the votes for Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson were added up, they far exceeded the Trump vote.

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                            February 22, 201630% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) 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 February 18.

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                            February 22, 2016Voters Oppose Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers for Illegal Immigrants
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has called for free lawyers for children who have entered this country illegally, and a law proposed in the state of Maryland would expand that to include women who are here illegally as well. How do voters nationwide feel about paying for free lawyers for illegal immigrants?

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                            February 22, 2016Voters Still Say Congress Is For Sale
Positive reviews of Congress just barely crack double-digits this month, while voters continue to believe that most representatives - including their own - are selling their votes.