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July 19, 2019

Voters Don’t Agree That Newcomers Love America More Than Natives

Voters tend to disagree with one of the so-called Democratic congressional Squad members that new immigrants love America more than those who were born here.

July 19, 2019

White House Watch: Castro Is No Danger to Trump Yet

Hispanic longshot Julian Castro impressed many observers in the recent Democratic presidential debates, but right now he's no threat to President Trump.

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July 19, 2019

Both Parties Are Misbehaving in Line With Their Historic Character By Michael Barone

The air is thick with lamentations that our two political parties are tearing themselves -- and the nation -- to pieces. The Republican president has picked a Twitter fight with four Democratic freshman congresswomen, and the Democratic speaker has chosen to violate House rules to pick a fight with the president.

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July 19, 2019

Is a New US Mideast War Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In October 1950, as U.S. forces were reeling from hordes of Chinese troops who had intervened massively in the Korean War, a 5,000-man Turkish brigade arrived to halt an onslaught by six Chinese divisions.

Said supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur: "The Turks are the hero of heroes. There is no impossibility for the Turkish Brigade."

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July 18, 2019

Democrats Want Party To Be More Like Pelosi Than Ocasio-Cortez

Before President Trump criticized the so-called “Squad” of young Democratic congresswomen, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was already trying to wrest the media’s attention away from them. Her fellow Democrats tend to agree with Pelosi, but it’s far from a slam dunk.

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July 18, 2019

2020 Redistricting: An Early Look By Kyle Kondik

GOP retains edge, but perhaps not as sharp of one as it had following 2010.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— The Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay out of adjudicating gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily change anything because the court had never put limits on partisan redistricting in the first place.

— Republicans are still slated to control the drawing of many more districts than Democrats following the 2020 census, although there are reasons to believe their power will not be as great as it was following the last census.

— How aggressively majority parties in a number of small-to-medium-sized states target incumbents of the minority party following 2020 may help tell us whether the Supreme Court’s decision will lead to more aggressive gerrymanders.

July 17, 2019

Confidence in Housing Market Remains At Record Highs

Homeowners continue to feel better about the housing market than they have in years.

July 17, 2019

Trump A Racist? 32% of Democrats Say Any White Criticism of Politicians of Color Is Racist

Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color.

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July 17, 2019

Defund Lutherans for Open Borders Now! By Michelle Malkin

If you were shocked by the images of the Mexican flag flying over an Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center this weekend, you'll be appalled at an even more disgusting spectacle:

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July 17, 2019

Trump Moves to Lessen the Pain of Capital Gains Taxes By Stephen Moore

It's official. President Donald Trump wants to index capital gains taxes for inflation. This would be a big stimulus boost for the U.S. economy immediately and over time and could get us back to 3% to 4% growth by liberating potentially hundreds of billions of dollars for new capital investment. My sources tell me that the president has told his White House team that if he can get his legal counsel to give him a ruling that he has the right to make this change administratively, he will do exactly that.

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July 17, 2019

Gagging Investigators By John Stossel

Recording events from public land shouldn't be a crime.

Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a public road, filmed farmworkers pushing a cow with a bulldozer, the farmer drove up to her and said, "You cannot videotape my property."

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July 16, 2019

Voters Question Trump’s Allegiance to Constitution

President Trump, like President Obama before him, has relied heavily on executive actions to get around a gridlocked Congress, and voters fall along predictable party lines when asked whether Trump’s actions would pass constitutional muster.

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July 16, 2019

Trump Fuels a Tribal War in Nancy's House By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump's playground taunt Sunday that "the Squad" of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came," dominated Monday morning's headlines.

July 15, 2019

40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 11.

July 15, 2019

GOP Wants More Deportations of Illegal Immigrants; Democrats Don’t

Federal immigration authorities began a major deportation operation this past weekend, and for Republicans it’s long overdue. But Democrats disagree and don’t like the way the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration.

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July 13, 2019

The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists By Ted Rall

Living as they do in a bipolar political world where politics consists of Democrats and Republicans and no other ideology is real, media corporations in the United States use "left," "liberal" and "Democrat" as synonyms. This is obviously wrong and clearly untrue -- Democrats are a party, leftism and liberalism are ideologies, and Democratic politics are frequently neither left nor liberal but far right -- but as Orwell observed, after you hear a lie repeated enough times, you begin to question what you know to be true rather than the untruth.

July 13, 2019

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 13, 2019

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

July 12, 2019

Consumer Spending Update: A Giant Leap in Consumer Confidence

The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index jumped to 144.5 in July, up over nine points from last month and just shy of its all-time high in February 2018.

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July 12, 2019

Democrats: Prisoners of the Past on the Economy By Michael Barone

We are all, to some extent, prisoners of the past. Things that have already happened -- or that we remember as having happened -- constitute the world that we know. Anything else is a product of imagination.

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July 12, 2019

Are Yanks and Brits Going Their Separate Ways? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Sir Kim Darroch's secret cable to London was leaked to the Daily Mail, wherein he called the Trump administration "dysfunctional ... unpredictable ... faction-riven ... diplomatically clumsy and inept," the odds on his survival as U.K. ambassador plummeted.