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March 8, 2019

Daylight Saving Time: Which Way to Turn?

Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, and most Americans know which way to re-set their clocks. But that doesn’t mean they like it.

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March 8, 2019

Impeachment Quest Lets AOC Types Set Democrats' Agenda By Michael Barone

Has the Democratic Party reduced its chances of denying President Trump a second term by continuing to concentrate on throwing him out before the end of his first? You can make a good case that it has.

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March 8, 2019

Can Trump Stop the Invasion? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In its lede editorial Wednesday, The New York Times called upon Congress to amend the National Emergency Act to "erect a wall against any President, not just Mr. Trump, who insists on creating emergencies where none exist."

March 7, 2019

Support Remains Strong for English As Official Language

Most states have designated English as their official language, and Americans continue to strongly believe that should be national policy as well.

March 7, 2019

Most Agree Some in Congress Hate America

Talk about the enemy within – voters think it’s Congress.

March 6, 2019

Most Think U.S. Should Legalize Pot

A bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would legalize marijuana nationally, and most voters like the idea.

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March 6, 2019

Vaccine Skeptics Under Siege By Michelle Malkin

Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

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March 6, 2019

Hoax By John Stossel

If you are an American college professor, the way you get a raise or tenure is by getting papers published in "academic journals."

The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what's taught at colleges today.

March 5, 2019

Trump’s Full-Month Approval Bounces Back to 2018 Levels

When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture.  To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.

March 5, 2019

Voters Say Impeachment Unlikely, Trump Reelection Instead

Despite former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s much-ballyhooed testimony before Congress last week and congressional Democrats’ big investigative push against the president, voters don’t see impeachment in the cards. But they give Democrats a better chance of winning the White House in 2020.

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March 5, 2019

Why Trump Must Veto the Federal Land Grab Bill By Stephen Moore

President Trump gave one of his most memorable and impactful speeches two weeks ago, when he systematically dismantled the case for socialism. In that speech, he recalled the economic harm and destruction in nations that have adopted socialism, communism or Stalinism. "America will never be a socialist country," Trump pledged in his speech in Florida.

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March 5, 2019

Mike Pompeo's War Warning to China By Patrick J. Buchanan

As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there the Secretary of State made a startling declaration.

March 4, 2019

38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-eight percent (38%) 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 February 28.

March 4, 2019

Men Favor Military Draft for Women A Lot More Than Women Do

Voters aren’t all that supportive of a military draft, but if there is one, they think women should be just as eligible as men. Women aren’t so sure of that.

March 2, 2019

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 2, 2019

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

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March 2, 2019

Trump's Foreign Policy: Hated by Pundits but Popular With Voters By Ted Rall

President Donald Trump keeps coming under attack for his foreign policy, predictably by Democrats but also by legacy Republican leaders.

March 1, 2019

41% Have Already Filed Their Income Taxes

Despite the lure of bigger deductions from changes in federal tax law, Americans haven’t stepped up the pace of filing their tax returns.

March 1, 2019

Democrats Still See Trump As Bigger Threat Than Kim Jong Un

Voters here don’t care much for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, but most Democrats still consider him less of a threat to the United States than President Trump.

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March 1, 2019

Is the American Century Over For Good? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Politics stops at the water's edge" was a tradition that, not so long ago, was observed by both parties, particularly when a president was abroad, speaking for the nation.

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March 1, 2019

Democrats Are Getting out on a Dangerously Left-Wing Limb By Michael Barone

There's an old political saying that presidential candidates appeal to their parties' wings -- left for Democrats, right for Republicans -- in the race for the nomination and then appeal to the center in the general election campaign. It was put in canonical form by Richard Nixon, one of only two Americans our major parties nominated for national office five times (the other was Franklin Roosevelt).