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November 10, 2015

Military Wants Concealed Carry Rights on Stateside Bases

America’s military risk their lives to defend this country, but now they want a better chance to defend themselves, too.

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November 10, 2015

Surge of Democratic Turnout Has Yet to Appear by Michael Barone

You don't have to wander long in the liberal commentariat to find projections that the Republican Party is in a death spiral, doomed by demographics, discredited by the dissension among House Republicans, disenchanted with its experienced presidential candidates and despised by the great mass of voters.

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November 10, 2015

The Ben Carson Flaps By Thomas Sowell

Dr. Ben Carson's whole life has been very unusual, so perhaps we should not be surprised to see the latest twist -- the media going ballistic over discrepancies in a few things he said.

November 10, 2015

Americans Still Think War On Drugs Is Failing

Americans still firmly believe the war on drugs has been a failure, and few think more money will make a difference.

November 9, 2015

27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Twenty-seven percent (27%) 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 November 5.

November 9, 2015

Americans Are More Confident In Home Sellers Market

Americans are more convinced that their local housing market is good for sellers, although homeowners’ expectations for their own home values have stayed about the same.

November 9, 2015

Support Grows for State Enforcement of Immigration Laws

Most voters continue to believe the federal government is not interested in stopping illegal immigration, and support for state rather than federal enforcement of immigration laws is now at its highest level in several years.

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November 7, 2015

Cops Gone Wild: Police Unions Are Killing Our Freedoms by Ted Rall

Police unions are out of control.

November 7, 2015

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 7, 2015

No matter what some elected officials tell them, Americans just aren’t buying the need for a lot more gun control.

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November 6, 2015

Trump Change: Most GOP Voters Still See Trump As Likely Nominee

It still looks like a “Donald” world as far as most Republican voters are concerned.

The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly Trump Change survey finds that 64% of Likely Republican Voters think Donald Trump is likely to be the GOP presidential nominee next year, but 33% still consider that outcome unlikely. This includes 19% who say a Trump nomination is Very Likely and 10% who consider it Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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November 6, 2015

Who's Burning Black Churches? Oh. By Michelle Malkin

Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp. 

November 6, 2015

Americans Nix Transgender Use of Opposite Sex Restrooms

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday criticized a suburban Chicago school district for not allowing transgender students access to girls' locker rooms and restrooms, but voters in Houston a day later repealed a law barring discrimination against transgender individuals in large part because of concerns that the law would allow men claiming to be women to use women's bathrooms.

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November 6, 2015

Liberals' Response to Dissent: 'Shut Up' by Michael Barone

'Shut up,' he explained. That's a sentence from Ring Lardner's short story "The Young Immigrunts." It's an exasperated father's response from the driver's seat to his child's question, "Are you lost, Daddy?"

November 5, 2015

Americans See Heroin Abuse on the Rise

Heroin abuse is now the number one drug threat in the country, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Americans say it’s affecting their communities.

November 5, 2015

Voters Expect More U.S. Troops to Go to Syria

Voter confidence in the Obama administration’s fight against the radical Islamic group ISIS is down despite the president’s decision to send a small number of troops to Syria, perhaps because voters strongly suspect that more will soon be on the way.

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November 5, 2015

1968: Ball of Confusion -- A year of chaos that makes today’s political battles seem tame by comparison By Larry J. Sabato

The UVA Center for Politics’ latest documentary, Ball of Confusion, has begun airing on PBS stations across the nation this week. Check your local listings to see when it’s playing in your area, and click on the image below to watch the trailer. The documentary recounts the three-way presidential contest among Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace held against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home. That election, decided 47 years ago today, remains amongst the most extraordinary in American history, as Larry J. Sabato writes below.

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November 5, 2015

35% Favor Expanding List of Those Who Can't Buy Guns

Support for the current federal system of background checks on gun purchasers remains high, but voters still question their effectiveness in reducing crime. One-in-three voters, however, want to expand the list of people who can be denied a gun.

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November 4, 2015

Freshman Senator Gives Pep Talk To Vapid Chamber Of Fake Debate By Charles Hurt

When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned something?

When was the last time you heard a vicious excoriation of Washington and Congress and the whole federal government, yet saw the first glimmer of hope that perhaps all is not already completely lost?

November 4, 2015

Was Mixed Pot Message Toxic to Ohio Vote?

Ohio voters yesterday rejected by nearly a two-to-one margin a ballot initiative that would have legalized both medical and recreational marijuana, but mixing the two into one vote may have been supporters’ biggest mistake.

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November 4, 2015

Beat the Elite by John Stossel

We love to complain about elites, people who seem to have a special advantage, privileges in life.