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                            January 9, 2016What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 9, 2016
Look for more debates next week, the Republicans on Thursday night, the Democrats on Sunday. More of the same or are these races in flux?
January 8, 2016Most Voters Oppose Obama Acting Alone on Gun Control
Voters don’t approve of President Obama’s decision to go it alone with several gun control initiatives and don’t believe his actions will reduce the number of mass killings the country has experienced recently.
January 8, 2016Negative Campaigning Breaks Out in Republican Race by Michael Barone
Rough and tumble. Hammer and tongs. In the race for this year's Republican nomination, Donald Trump has not hesitated to attack and ridicule many of his opponents, and some of them have teed up attacks on him, only to hold back when they seemed to help rather than hurt him.
January 8, 2016Why Is North Korea Our Problem? By Patrick J. Buchanan
For Xi Jinping, it has been a rough week.
Panicked flight from China's currency twice caused a plunge of 7 percent in her stock market, forcing a suspension of trading.

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                            January 8, 2016Trump Change: More Voters Than Ever See Trump As Eventual GOP Nominee
Belief among Republicans that Donald Trump will be the next GOP presidential nominee now ties its highest level ever, and among all likely voters, more than ever agree. 

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                            January 7, 201638% of Adults Under 40 Have A Tattoo
Tattoos are certainly more commonplace in society, but are they becoming completely acceptable?

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                            January 7, 2016Most Say Negative TV Ads Backfire on Candidates Who Use Them
As the hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination whale away at each other in TV ads in key states, most Americans continue to say negative ads are not necessary and actually backfire on the candidates who air them.
January 7, 2016The Common Wisdom of New Year’s Day: Often Wrong for President By Larry J. Sabato
The CW on New Year's Day Has Often Been Wrong

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                            January 7, 2016Younger Adults Rely Much Less on Cash
Is America becoming a cashless society?
January 6, 2016Bettors Know Better Than Pundits By John Stossel
Want to know who the next president will be?  

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                            January 6, 2016Most Americans Bank Online Despite Security Concerns
While online security breaches are a regular occurrence, most Americans continue to trust their banking to the Internet.

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                            January 6, 2016Voters Want to Steer Clear of Saudi-Iran Spat
Voters here are worried about the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran but think America needs to mind its own business.
January 6, 2016Inside the Garden of Political Town Hall Plants by Michelle Malkin
On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience."
January 6, 2016Showman-in-Chief By Thomas Sowell
Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws.
January 6, 2016Obama’s Gun Plan: Crocodile Tears And A ‘Crazy List’ By Charles Hurt
When all the hectoring is finished, the professorial lecturing is done, all the political posturing is over, all that is left are tears. And crocodile tears at that.
Even for those of us long tired of the false hopes and outright lies from this White House, President Obama’s crude gunplay Tuesday was pretty shocking.

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                            January 6, 2016Voters Still Want Feds Out of Health Care
Reducing costs remains voters' top health care priority, and they continue to believe that keeping government out of the health care market is the best way to achieve that goal.
January 5, 2016Battening Down the Hatches, Reminiscent of the 1930s By Michael Barone
Battening down the hatches. That's what America and much of the rest of the world seem to be doing today, in an eerie re-enactment, though to much less of a degree, of what America and the world did in the 1930s. The result then wasn't very pretty. The result now is unknown.

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                            January 5, 201644% of Democrats Have Had Enough of 2016 Race
With the Iowa caucus less than a month away, most voters say they’re ready and eager for the 2016 presidential contest. But Republicans are much more enthusiastic about the year to come than Democrats and unaffiliated voters are.
January 5, 2016Will Mideast Allies Drag Us Into War? By Pat Buchanan
The New Year's execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation. 
January 5, 2016Complicating the Obvious By Thomas Sowell
Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English.
It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications or murky instructions, that is something else.