File this under: No good deed goes unpunished. In 2002, after now California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner sold his startup business for $1 billion, he became a volunteer, then volunteer teacher, at San Jose's Mount Pleasant High School. He even wrote a book about it and plans on donating the profits from the sales of "Mount Pleasant" to the school.
Democratic incumbent Patty Murray still falls just short of 50% support in match-ups with five potential GOP rivals in Washington State’s race for the U.S. Senate.
Republican Congressman Mark Kirk claims 41% support for the second month in a row in Illinois’s U.S. Senate race, while his Democratic opponent, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, has lost ground.
Over the last two decades, the United States has intervened militarily in several countries to protect human rights. Now, writes historian Mark Mazower in World Affairs, "the concept of humanitarian intervention is dying if not dead." And a good thing, too, he concludes.
Apple's new iPad hit shelves across the country this week, and a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 12% of Americans say they're likely to purchase one. This includes four percent (4%) who are very likely to do so.
Thirty-three percent (33%) of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Republican Roy Blunt continues to hold a slight lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan in Missouri’s contest for the U.S. Senate. These findings and the high level of opposition to the national health care plan in the state perhaps help to explain why Carnahan wasn’t around yesterday when President Obama came to Missouri to pitch his plan.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters oppose President Obama’s new policy prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons in response to chemical or biological attacks on the United States.
If there is any subject that enrages those who now call themselves conservatives, it is federal spending -- and especially the stimulus program enacted by the Democratic administration and Congress last year. The government can do nothing right, they say. The stimulus was pure waste that created no jobs at all. The country would be better off without Washington taxing and spending at all.
Incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet has edged slightly closer to his strongest Republican rival, ex-Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race.
A lot has happened since our last Senate update in January. And yet overall, the balance hasn’t changed dramatically.
Republican State Senator Bill Brady now leads Governor Pat Quinn 45% to 38% in Illinois's gubernatorial contest, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state.
The tax code needs fixing to be fairer and less complex. But let's set some rules for this debate. Here are the Five Commandments of Tax Reform:
Voters in Massachusetts strongly favor the resumption of offshore oil drilling, but they have mixed feelings about allowing it off the coast of their own state.
For the second straight week, 35% of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Most Americans see a need for major lifestyle cutbacks to help the environment, but even more don’t think that's likely to happen.
Despite major announcements in recent days from both Ford and Nissan about stepped-up development of electric cars, just 17% of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely that the next car they buy will be all-electric, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Republican Thomas Foley now enjoys a modest lead over his two top Democratic opponents in Connecticut’s gubernatorial race, a contest that was a toss-up two months ago.
Last summer, President Obama spent several months publicly anguishing over what he would or wouldn't do in Afghanistan. Finally, he agreed to ramp up troop levels but warned that he intended to start getting American troops out in 18 months. After anguishing in several columns over the president's anguishing, I concluded in November 2009:
