Most Democrats Think Illegal Immigrants Should Vote
Are voters ready to let illegal immigrants vote? A sizable number, including most Democrats, are.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015
Colleges and Universities Have Grown Bloated and Dysfunctional by Michael Barone
American colleges and universities, long thought to be the glory of the nation, are in more than a little trouble. I've written before of their shameful practices -- the racial quotas and preferences at selective schools (Harvard is being sued by Asian-American organizations), the kangaroo courts that try students accused of rape and sexual assault without legal representation or presumption of innocence, and speech codes that make campuses the least rather than the most free venues in American society.
May 29, 2015
Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge? By Michelle Malkin
How many times have you heard President Obama and his minions pat themselves on the back for their noble "investments" in "roads and bridges"? Without government infrastructure spending, we're incessantly reminded, we wouldn't be able to conduct our daily business.
"Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive," Vice President Joe Biden infamously asserted. "Private enterprise," he sneered, lags behind.
May 28, 2015
Voters Want More Say In Choosing Their Leaders
While U.S. voters believe they have it better than citizens of other countries, they still don’t think they have enough influence over who gets elected in government.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters think voters in this country do not have enough say when it comes to choosing their leaders, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just five percent (5%) believe they have too much say, while 27% feel the level of choice is about right. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
May 28, 2015
Can Obama Change Obamacare Without Congress’ OK?
A federal judge today will hear arguments in a lawsuit that argues the Obama administration violated the Constitution when it changed portions of the new national health care law without Congress’ approval. It’s the first ever lawsuit by the full House of Representatives against a sitting president.
May 28, 2015
Your Rights vs. Your Safety – You Decide
The debate over the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency’s snooping on millions of Americans is all about the balance between national security and individual rights. Similarly, increasing complaints about urban policing have us discussing the conflict between those rights and public safety.
May 28, 2015
House 2016: Gridlock Ahead for a Possible Clinton Administration By Kyle Kondik
If Hillary Clinton wins the White House, there's a decent chance that she will achieve a historic first, but not the one everybody talks about.
Clinton could become the first Democratic president in the party's nearly two century-long history* to never control the House of Representatives while she's in office.
May 27, 2015
Voters Still Question Supreme Court's Political Biases
Several major rulings are expected heading into the final month of the U.S. Supreme Court’s current term, including ones on same-sex marriage and President Obama's health care law, but few voters think the court is balanced politically.
May 27, 2015
Federal Court Echoes Voters In Halting Obama’s Amnesty
President Obama’s plan to protect up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation has run into more legal trouble. A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to lift a hold on the president’s executive action, and the next stop is likely to be the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rasmussen Reports surveying finds that more than half of voters remain opposed to Obama’s plan to allow the illegal immigrants to remain in this country and apply for jobs. Opposition has risen since the president announced his action last November.
May 27, 2015
How the World Has Changed Since World War I By Michael Barone
Over the past year, I've been reading books inspired by the centenary of World War I, a war with horrific casualties painful to contemplate. What helps in comprehending the scale of the slaughter is a book by one of Bill Gates' favorite authors, the Canadian academic Vaclav Smil, "Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact."
Smil leads the reader through the invention and development of electricity, oil production and distribution, the automobile, steelmaking, the telephone, the airplane and the production of synthetic ammonia -- to his mind the most important because without it agriculture couldn't feed the world's 6 billion people.
May 27, 2015
For Voters, Taxes Aren't Ticket to Fixing State Budgets
The state budget picture still hasn't improved for most voters, even though they're much more likely to be paying higher rather than lower taxes these days.
May 26, 2015
Most Voters In Democrat-Run States Think Government Too Big
Voters in states run mostly by Democrats are more likely than those in GOP-run states to feel their state government is too big, but all give similar performance reviews to those governments.
May 26, 2015
Why Do So Many Eggs Come From Iowa? by Froma Harrop
An outbreak of bird flu has forced American farmers to kill millions of egg-laying chickens, 32 million in Iowa alone -- hence the rise in egg prices.
May 26, 2015
Voters Expect Problems Ahead from Obamacare
Voters still tend to think the new national health care law isn't working and expect things to get even worse.
May 25, 2015
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) 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 week ending May 21.
May 25, 2015
Most Salute Importance of Memorial Day
Most Americans consider Memorial Day an important U.S. holiday, and an even larger number plan to do something special to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
May 25, 2015
Few Voters Favor Keeping Health Care Law As Is
Obamacare remains the law of the land, but most voters still want to make major changes in it or dump it completely.
May 23, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 23, 2015
Are U.S. troops headed back to Iraq? If so, voters don’t like it.
May 22, 2015
Voters Remain Cool to Boots on the Ground in Iraq
Voters are more convinced that the radical Islamic State group (ISIS) is winning the war in Iraq but are less enthusiastic than ever about sending U.S. troops back into action to do something about it.
