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June 8, 2017

Comey Edges Trump In Voter Trust

Hillary Clinton blames former FBI Director James Comey for her loss last November, but a sizable majority of Democrats have more confidence in Comey than in the man who actually beat her. Republicans strongly disagree.

June 8, 2017

39% Say Americans Talk About Race Too Much, 33% Not Enough

Blacks tend to think Americans need to talk more about racial issues. Whites and other minorities are more likely to say enough's enough.

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June 7, 2017

More Americans Are Streaming TV and Movies Now

Americans still watch a lot of television, but they’re doing more of it through streaming services these days.

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June 7, 2017

YouTube Banned Me, But Not the Hate Imams by Michelle Malkin

One of the many maddening takeaways from the London Bridge jihad attack is this: If you post videos on YouTube radicalizing Muslim viewers to kill innocent people, YouTube will leave you alone.

June 7, 2017

Americans Have a Bleak Outlook for Race Relations

Confidence in race relations in America remains down, and there isn’t much hope for the future.

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June 7, 2017

Prosperity Cities By John Stossel

Lovers of socialism didn't like my column last week. I wrote that Venezuela's collapse shows the cluelessness of celebrities like Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky, who'd praised Venezuela's leader.    

June 7, 2017

Americans Recognize Importance of Police

It’s been a rough few years to be a police officer, with high-profile police shootings and riots dominating the news. But despite the negative press, Americans still value  the police.

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June 7, 2017

Trump Should Consider Becoming His Own Solicitor General By Charles Hurt

President Trump’s single greatest strength is that he — and he alone — is his own top adviser and most trusted confidant. It’s just he, himself and @realDonaldTrump.

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June 6, 2017

52% Say Trump Travel Ban Anti-Terrorist, Not Anti-Muslim

Half of voters still favor President Trump’s temporary travel ban and see it as an anti-terrorist measure, not religious discrimination. Voters also think the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to uphold the ban.

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June 6, 2017

The Forever War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Arianna Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting to pick up their children.

June 6, 2017

Voters Aren't Willing to Pay to Fight Climate Change

President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris anti-global warming agreement last week in part because of his concern about its potential impact on the U.S. economy. Voters tend to agree the accord would have led to increased energy costs, and most remain unwilling to pay much, if anything, more to fight global warming.

June 5, 2017

33% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 June 1.  

June 5, 2017

Voters Not Convinced World Leaders Should Have Trump’s Cell Number

Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to hand out his personal cellphone number to several other world leaders, but most voters don’t think he should break from the norm.

June 5, 2017

Americans Are Avid Readers, But Prefer Print to Digital

Despite living in a digital age, Americans still appreciate time with a good book—and they prefer that book be printed on paper rather than on a touchscreen.

June 3, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 3, 2017

President Trump continues to enact the agenda he promised voters, stunning the Washington, D.C. establishment and a media used to politicians who change their tune once they’re in office.

June 2, 2017

60% Think Senate Should Vote on Paris Climate Accord

Most voters disagree with President Trump’s decision to quit the Paris anti-global warming agreement and think its fate should be decided by the U.S. Senate instead.

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June 2, 2017

Hillary Scrubs Her Hands Furiously, 'Out, Damned Spot!' By Charles Hurt

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! — One, two. Why, then, ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”

— Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1

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June 2, 2017

Let's Stop Acting as if the 2016 Campaign Were Still On By Michael Barone

If you keep up with the news, you might think that the unpleasant and unedifying 2016 presidential campaign is still going on.

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June 2, 2017

Is Afghanistan a Lost Cause? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We are there and we are committed" was the regular retort of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the war in Vietnam.

Whatever you may think of our decision to go in, Rusk was saying, if we walk away, the United States loses the first war in its history, with all that means for Southeast Asia and America's position in the world.

June 2, 2017

More Say U.S. Should Do What Allies Want

President Trump just recently returned from his first foreign trip where he told our reticent allies in the Middle East and Europe that they need to do more for their own defense, but now an unprecedented number of voters believes the United States should listen to its allies instead.