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December 13, 2017

Americans Still Visiting National Parks

President Trump announced a controversial decision last week to reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. This week, the National Park Service has reduced the number of free entry days into many national parks while also contemplating fee increases.

December 13, 2017

Most Favor Drug Testing of Food Stamp, Welfare Applicants

Wisconsin is moving forward with a plan to drug test some food stamp recipients, and most voters nationwide would like to see a similar plan in the state they live in.

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December 13, 2017

Still Dawdling Over Deadly Diversity Visas By Michelle Malkin

Capitol Hill's national security priorities are screwier than a Six Flags roller coaster.   

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December 13, 2017

Liberate Food Trucks By John Stossel

Laura Pekarik bakes cupcakes and sells them from a food truck. Her truck provided a great opportunity, letting her open a business without having to spend big to hire a staff and rent space in a building.

December 13, 2017

Voters Say No To U.S. Skipping Winter Olympics Over North Korean Concerns

As South Korea prepares to host the Winter Olympics in February, relations between their northern neighbor and the United States remain frail. But even with the looming threat from North Korea, few Americans support the U.S. team passing on the Olympics in the name of security.

December 12, 2017

Voters OK With Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood

Voters still tend to support the use of tissue from aborted babies for medical purposes but agree with the government’s decision to look into how Planned Parenthood is handling this tissue.

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December 12, 2017

Republicans' Tax Plan Takes a Quirky Swipe at the Little Guys By Lawrence Kudlow & Stephen Moore

Republicans are supposed to be the party that cuts the job-killing capital gains tax, not raises it. But because of a quirk in the Senate-passed tax bill, the tax on capital gains may go up -- and for some types of long-held assets, fairly substantially.   

December 12, 2017

Most Americans Still Want to Take Christmas, Religion Public

Most Americans still believe religious displays have a place on government property, and they want to see more Christmas in schools, too.

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December 12, 2017

What Should We Fight For? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We will never accept Russia's occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea," declaimed Rex Tillerson last week in Vienna.

"Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns full control of the peninsula to Ukraine."

December 11, 2017

35% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-five percent (35%) 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 December 14.

December 11, 2017

34% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-four percent (34%) 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 December 7.

December 11, 2017

One-in-Three Republicans Say GOP Should Block Roy Moore If Elected

The special Senate election in Alabama is tomorrow, and if Roy Moore wins, a third of Republicans think their own party should refuse to seat him. Few GOP voters also think a Moore victory would be a positive for the party in the long run.

December 11, 2017

Voters Less Concerned That Providing Citizenship Path Will Lead to More Illegal Immigration

With the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) now a point of contention for Congress, voters have less concern that helping those here illegally become citizens will encourage more illegal immigration...

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December 11, 2017

Democrats’ Chickens Come Home to Roost By Charles Hurt

Behold, Nancy Pelosi, the monster you yourself created.

Sure, Democrats have opened another front on their illusory Republican “War on Women.” But a key constituency of Mrs. Pelosi’s political jalopy is not too happy about how the party got there.

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December 9, 2017

Will President Trump Last Another Year? By Ted Rall

Some political experts doubted that Donald J. Trump would tough it out this long. This, after all, was a very strange man, possibly afflicted by obsessive-compulsive disorder to the point that he even floated the idea of staying in New York.   

December 9, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 9, 2017

The good economic news continues with Friday’s jobs report and the Dow inching ever higher, but President Trump still isn’t getting the credit.

December 8, 2017

Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Continues to Soar

Today’s newly released jobs report, although unchanged from last month, finds the unemployment rate remaining at its lowest level in more than 17 years.

December 8, 2017

For U.S. Voters, Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Is A Close Call

Voters are closely divided over President Trump’s decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but among those who value the Jewish state most as a U.S. ally, the majority thinks it’s a good idea.

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December 8, 2017

Real Target of Republican Tax Bills: Feds, Eds and Meds Bloat By Michael Barone

Are the current Republican tax bills, passed by the House and Senate and being reconciled in conference committee, an attack on "feds, eds and meds"? That's a reference to the government, health care and education jobs that local Democrats in Dayton, Ohio, told Sen. Sherrod Brown have been fueling the area's comeback.

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December 8, 2017

The Nutball the Neocons Wanted in NATO By Patrick J. Buchanan

Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century.