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October 18, 2017

A CNN Smear By John Stossel

Did you happen to catch CNN's latest smear?   

October 18, 2017

46% Have Been Sexually Harassed at Work or Know Someone Who Has

Amid growing allegations and criminal sexual assault charges against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, most Americans see sexual harassment in the workplace as a serious problem...

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October 18, 2017

Trump Takes Wrecking Ball to the Swamp That Is D.C. By Charles Hurt

There is the old adage that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. This has always been because the swamp contains the nastiest reptilian creatures that will just as soon strike you in the back as look at you.

October 18, 2017

62% Say Liberal Hollywood Has Negative Impact on Society

Americans continue to think the politics of Hollywood bend to the left and that the film industry has a negative impact on society.

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October 18, 2017

Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon By Michelle Malkin

"#MeToo" is the social media meme of the moment. In a 24-hour period, the phrase was tweeted nearly a half million times and posted on Facebook 12 million times. Spearheaded by actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of Hollyweird's Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, women have flooded social media with their own long-buried accounts of being pestered, groped or assaulted by rapacious male predators in the workplace.

October 17, 2017

53% Now Support Contraceptive Mandate

President Trump rolled back an Obama-era mandate that required employer-based health care plans to cover prescription contraceptives. But new polling shows that support for such a  mandate is up.

October 17, 2017

Most Disagree With Decision to Open Boy Scouts to Girls

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has announced plans to begin admitting girls into their ranks amid declining membership, but despite recognizing the difficulty in getting kids to become scouts, most Americans think Boy Scouts should just be for the boys.

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October 17, 2017

Is War With Iran Now Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran.

October 16, 2017

31% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-one percent (31%) 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 October 12.

October 16, 2017

Voters See Positive NAFTA Changes As Likely

Voters remain critical of free trade in general but suspect that the ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) initiated by President Trump will produce something better for the United States.

October 16, 2017

Most Americans Say Individuals Responsible For Their Actions

Most Americans think individuals are responsible for their actions, but that people are held less accountable now than in the past.

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October 14, 2017

What Would The U.S. Look Like if We Built it from Scratch? By Ted Rall

Imagine that there was another revolution. And that nothing big had changed. Demographics, power dynamics, culture, our economic system and political values were pretty much the same as they are now. If we Americans rolled up our sleeves and reimagined our political system from scratch, if we wrote up a brand-new constitution for 2017, what would a brand-spanking-new United States Version 2.0 look like today?

October 14, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 14, 2017

One hallmark of the Trump administration has been its untangling and elimination of federal regulations, especially those imposed throughout the Obama administration.  Among the regulations being eliminated are those stemming from the Paris climate agreement, which President Trump is walking away from.

October 13, 2017

67% of Americans Oppose Tax Breaks for NFL Teams

President Trump has repeatedly called out National Football League team owners in the partially tax-subsidized league for allowing player protests during the national anthem.

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October 13, 2017

Is Trump the Heir to Reagan? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review.

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October 13, 2017

Today's Turn-of-the-Century Problems By Michael Barone

Is America in a new Gilded Age? That's the contention of Republican political consultant Bruce Mehlman, and in a series of 35 slides, he makes a strong case.

October 13, 2017

Voters Favor EPA Reduction in CO2 Emissions, Are Torn on Environmental Impact

The Trump administration plans to roll back an Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency regulation that requires a big drop in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 2030.

October 12, 2017

Voters Say EPA Regulations Need Congressional Approval

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back a regulation that requires a big drop in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 2030, but most voters think they shouldn’t be allowed to make such calls without the approval of Congress.

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October 12, 2017

Voters Credit Obama As Much As Trump For Improving Economy

Voters are evenly divided over whether President Trump or President Obama is responsible for the current economic boom but continue to have a lot more economic faith in themselves than in the man in the White House.

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October 12, 2017

Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race: Where Things Stand With Less Than a Month to Go By Geoffrey Skelley

The November of the year following a presidential election is always relatively quiet on the electoral front, with only regularly-scheduled statewide races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. With the Garden State’s contest looking like a safe Democratic pickup and Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate not happening until December, coverage of the competitive Virginia race seems to be accelerating as it enters the final month before Election Day. This is only natural: gubernatorial elections in the Old Dominion traditionally ramp up around Labor Day, and now that the election is less than four weeks away, the candidates are beginning to go all-in on television ads, which attracts more notice inside and outside of the commonwealth.