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March 7, 2018

Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin

Will the VA scandal never end?   

March 7, 2018

Voters Favor Prosecuting Mayor Who Warned Illegals About ICE Raid

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf recently warned illegal immigrants in her city of a pending crackdown by federal immigration authorities, and federal officials now say that a number of violent criminal aliens escaped capture and deportation as a result.

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March 7, 2018

No Trade Barriers By John Stossel

No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."

March 6, 2018

Americans Favor Raising Age to Buy Gun, Not Enlist or Vote

In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Florida last month, major retailers like WalMart and Dick’s Sporting Goods recently announced that they will no longer sell firearms to anyone under the age of 21.

March 6, 2018

65% Oppose Voting Rights for Felons in Prison

Maine and Vermont are currently the only two states where a convicted felon can vote while he or she is still in prison, but with a new bill introduced in February, New Jersey may soon be added to that list. Most voters don’t feel that’s right, but Democrats and black voters are more receptive to it than others.

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March 6, 2018

Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow

One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.

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March 6, 2018

Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan

From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.

And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.

March 5, 2018

40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending March 1.

March 5, 2018

Republicans Like Trump’s Direction; Democrats Want A Change

Ohio Governor John Kasich is joining with Arnold Schwarzenegger to champion a more centrist Republican Party, and Democrats think that’s a great idea. Republicans, however, are sticking with President Trump.

March 5, 2018

Trump’s Full-Month Approval Jumps in February

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 3, 2018

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 3, 2018

It was just another week in Trumpsylvania, with politics as usual coloring voters’ reactions.

March 2, 2018

Americans Are Ahead of the Game on Taxes This Year

Americans are slightly further ahead in the income tax-filing process than they were at this time a year ago.

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March 2, 2018

Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.   

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March 2, 2018

Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone

Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.

March 2, 2018

58% Say Florida Shooting Suspect Should Get Death Penalty

Most Americans think the death penalty is a fair punishment if the man accused of killing 17 people during a school shooting in Florida is convicted, and nearly half don’t think, in general, that leniency should be granted to suspected criminals if they are found to be mentally ill.

March 1, 2018

49% View NRA Favorably

In the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in Florida, fewer voters have a positive view of the National Rifle Association (NRA).

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March 1, 2018

Trump in 2020?

If the presidential election were held today, President Trump would carry Republicans and unaffiliated voters, but Democrats would reject him in droves.

March 1, 2018

Voters Break Along Party Lines Over New Sanctions on North Korea

President Trump has imposed extensive new economic sanctions on North Korea to discourage that country's development of nuclear weapons. But voters are closely divided over the president's action, with politics as usual coloring the responses.

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March 1, 2018

Donald Trump’s Short Congressional Coattails By Rhodes Cook

-- Although Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party in his image, he had among the shortest coattails of any presidential winner going back to Dwight Eisenhower. In 2016, Trump ran ahead of just 24 of 241 Republican House winners and only five of 22 Republican Senate winners.

February 28, 2018

Voters Stop Short of Pulling Immigration Agents from California

President Trump has threatened to pull border control enforcement agencies out of California because of the state’s refusal to enforce most illegal immigration laws, but voters aren’t sure that’s the best approach.