For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about blurring the line between weather and climate to make a PR point.
As the end of President Obama’s first year in office nears, most voters still blame his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the country’s continuing bad economy.
Many have bemoaned the near-extinction of the political species known as the moderate Republican. Once thriving in cold habitats, particularly New England, socially liberal but fiscally conservative Republicans were gradually displaced by Democrats. The loss of these bridge-builders has left the Republican Party largely in the hands of the bridge-burners, and to the detriment of America.
With just a few days left until Christmas, 52% of Americans have not finished their holiday shopping, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Illinois voters finds former state Attorney General Jim Ryan leading incumbent Democratic Governor Pat Quinn 46% to 39%. Nine percent (9%) of Illinois voters like some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
Voters strongly believe that black-white relations are better today - and improving - but are much less confident about the social situation with Hispanics.
Over the past week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a way to collect 60 votes and move health care reform legislation forward in the U.S. Senate. However, his negotiating and the ongoing debate did nothing to improve public opinion of the legislation.
In the Bella Center on the south side of Copenhagen and in the Senate chamber on the north side of the Capitol, we're seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide with American public opinion. It's like what happens when a butterfly collides with the windshield of a speeding SUV. Splat.
Prior to this weekend, there were two undefeated teams in the NFL, and most football fans expected that one of them would emerge as the Super Bowl champion at the end of the season.
Gavin Newsom is at it again. The San Francisco mayor's latest foray into annoying nanny statism is a proposal, reported in The Chronicle last week, to require the city's cell phone retailers to post the radiation levels of their products.
The disconnect between government and the average American continues.
Former Governor Roy Barnes is still far ahead of his opponents in Georgia's 2010 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary race.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Americans say they will be giving less to charity this year than they did a year ago.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide say that it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% think that passing that bill would be better.
It's not exactly surprising to read major news organizations confirming that Elin Nordegren, the No. 1 search name on Google of late, is planning to divorce Tiger Woods.
The most endangered species in Washington may well be the moderate. Consider the long knives pointed at the heart of Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Michigan has been reliably Democratic in recent years, but right now Lieutenant Governor John Cherry faces an uphill battle against his leading Republican opponents in the state’s 2010 race for governor.
When Joe Lieberman said he would probably support the health care legislation -- now that the public option and Medicare buy-in are being stripped out -- the Democrat-turned-independent should have rightfully faded from the headlines. But the senator from Connecticut made sure that didn't happen by telling CNN that he might run again as a Republican.
Helicopter Ben Bernanke passed the Senate Banking Committee vote on his reconfirmation.
On his official website, golfing great Tiger Woods issued an apology for his marital infidelities to everyone who has supported him through the years. “I have let my family down, and I regret those transgressions with all my heart,” he said.
