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December 30, 2015

Criticism of Obama’s Leadership Rises

As Barack Obama enters his final year as president, voters are more critical of his leadership abilities.

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December 30, 2015

Defining Political Child Abuse: A Tale of Two Cruz Families By Michelle Malkin

Remember 5-year-old Sophie Cruz?

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December 30, 2015

2015 by John Stossel

Terrorism! Crime! Deadly storms! Hillary Clinton!

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December 30, 2015

With the Big Dog at her side, Hillary’s sexism charges ring hollow by Charles Hurt

He has been her meal ticket into national politics. He has been the sex predator in the White House whom she ruthlessly covered for. He has been her own personal dog in heat.

December 30, 2015

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 29, 2015

Remembering 2015 By Thomas Sowell

How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?   

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.