A majority of parents (61 percent) are not letting the recession change their plans for their children's college education, according to a survey by COUNTRY Financial. Further, 47 percent say college plans are a higher priority than retirement savings (41 percent).
Members of President Obama's Cabinet are three times more likely to have attended law school than boot camp. How things have changed since 2004, when Democrats were outraged that, in time of war, the GOP White House could be run by men with no combat experience.
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday looks at NASA and the expense of the Hubble telescope.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of American adults say a college degree is still a good financial investment in today’s economic environment.
U.S. Catholics are evenly divided over whether the church should change its policy of centuries and allow priests to marry.
When will the economy stop dropping because of the recession and start dropping because of the harm Obama's cure to the recession is inflicting?
Governor David Paterson faces an uphill climb if he goes through with his announced plan to ask voters for his own four-year term in office.
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday looks at NASA and the expense of the Hubble telescope.
Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
Students at the newest campus in the University of California system lobbied hard to get Michelle Obama as their graduation speaker this past weekend, and that same kind of popularity is reflected in the first lady’s ratings in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Americans are evenly divided over the idea of making free health care available to every one in the country, but opposition grows dramatically when their own health insurance is involved.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say illegal drug use is primarily a criminal justice issue rather than a matter of public health.
Last week's briefing brought home to me the difficult challenges faced by the Central Intelligence Agency in the current threat environment.
Step by step, Barack Obama has been reversing himself on antiterrorist policy. Last month, he announced he would not appeal a federal court decision ordering the government to release photographs of terrorist interrogations. This was in line with his decision to release on April 16 four memoranda prepared by the Bush administration Justice Department on that subject.
Forty-three percent (43%) of voters nationwide say that it’s at least somewhat likely that the Central Intelligence Agency misled Nancy Pelosi about the use of waterboarding when interrogating prisoners.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued at a press conference Thursday that Republicans are focusing on how much she knew about CIA enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002 and 2003 as a "diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies, which all of us long opposed."
Most Americans without health insurance (56%) rate the U.S. health care system as poor. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 20% of the uninsured believe the system as good or excellent.
In what has become a daily deluge of policy shifts, high-level pronouncements, and mindless personality cult trifles, it is understandable how such a small thing gets overlooked. So, for those who missed it, the Associated Press reported on Monday that the Obama Administration plans on spending another king’s ransom to prod officials to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers, principals and facilities.
Health care reform, one of President Barack Obama’s top priorities, was in the news a lot this past week.
Even when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does the right thing -- as it did Monday in denying convicted killer Kevin Cooper a hearing on yet another of his dubious appeals -- there is always a judge, or in this case five, on the court with an overly active imagination. And those judges don't help the court's results-oriented reputation.
