Media Sharks Smell Blood from Florida School -- and Ratings By Charles Hurt
Never before has such an unspeakable American tragedy been so quickly and shamelessly politicized for petty partisan gain.
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February 23, 2018
February 23, 2018
Half Agree Russia Is Likely Election Meddler But Say U.S. Does, Too
Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe has resulted in 13 indictments against Russians for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, half of voters think it’s possible this alleged interference cost Hillary Clinton the presidency. But slightly more think the U.S. government also interferes in the elections of other countries.
February 23, 2018
Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together.
February 22, 2018
Social Media Users Say Sites Don’t Influence Their Politics
Last Friday, Robert Mueller’s special investigation handed over indictments against 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 election by using stolen identities from American citizens to promote mostly pro-Trump political activist campaigns through social media.
February 22, 2018
Americans Aren’t Convinced Stricter Gun Control Laws Will Decrease Violent Crime
In the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, officials and activists are calling for tighter gun control laws.
February 22, 2018
Is POTUS Most Powerful?
Voters think the president of the United States holds the right amount of power, though they’re not sure if that makes him the most powerful person in the world.
February 22, 2018
Rating the New Pennsylvania House Map By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
A few weeks ago, we plotted a potential seat-by-seat Democratic path to a narrow House majority. That included a Democratic target of netting three additional seats from Pennsylvania, and the state’s new House map drawn by the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court should make it easier to meet or even exceed that benchmark.
February 21, 2018
Voters Blame Politicians for Federal Deficit
Voters think it’s important to consider spending cuts across the board to reduce the federal budget, but they think it’s the fault of politicians that nothing is getting cut.
February 21, 2018
32% Say FBI Director Must Go
Most voters continue to view the embattled Federal Bureau of Investigation favorably and aren’t ready to fire the FBI’s boss because of its failure to act on warning signs about the Florida school shooter.
February 21, 2018
One-in-Three Say Family's Been Hit With Flu This Season
This flu season is already one of the worst on record, and it’s not even over yet. One-in-three Americans say the flu has hit their family, even though half have gotten a flu shot.
February 21, 2018
Do Not Let the Children Lead By Michelle Malkin
Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don't bother searching America's prestigious law schools.
February 21, 2018
Pay Your Dues! By John Stossel
If your workplace is a union shop, are you forced to pay union dues? Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about that.
February 20, 2018
Support High for Trump's Infrastructure Plan
President Trump’s plan to fix the nation’s ailing infrastructure calls for generating $1.5 trillion in upgrades through ventures involving the federal government, state government and private industry.
February 20, 2018
Voters Don’t Think Congress Will Fix the Big Problems
Most voters continue to believe the Republican-led Congress is doing a poor job, perhaps in part because they lack faith that lawmakers will do anything about the biggest issues facing the country.
February 20, 2018
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election.
February 19, 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 February 15.
February 19, 2018
Americans Now More Supportive of Further Gun Control, Feel Schools Less Safe
Following last week's school shooting in Florida, Americans rate more gun control on the same level with treatment of the mentally ill as the best way to stop incidents of this kind...
February 19, 2018
Americans Still Veto Separate Holiday for Lincoln
Americans honor both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on Presidents’ Day which falls annually on or near Washington’s birthday. While Lincoln’s birthday is earlier in the month, most Americans think one holiday is enough for these two iconic presidents.
February 19, 2018
Trump Needs a Return to King Dollar By Lawrence Kudlow
The Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have passed one of the best pro-growth tax bills ever. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ranks in the all-time hall of fame along with former President Reagan's 1981 and 1986 tax acts, and former President Kennedy's posthumous tax cuts in 1964. The announcements by Apple, FedEx, AT&T, Fiat Chrysler and over 300 companies with multibillion dollar investments in the United States are early lead indicators of good things to come from the tax-rate cuts.
February 17, 2018
On The One Hand, Gun Violence; On The Other Hand, Gun Control By Ted Rall
On the one hand, because it's the 18th school shooting so far this year, the news that another psychologically damaged man shot 17 schoolchildren to death with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle is not news. Put it on page 27 below the fold, maybe?
