The Demand for Villains by Thomas Sowell
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.
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January 26, 2016
January 26, 2016
Is It Good or Bad That Most Teachers Are In Unions?
Detroit public school teachers are taking "sick-outs" in huge numbers in part to protest their pay, causing school shutdowns throughout the city and illustrating the power of public employee unions. Most Americans still agree that teachers are underpaid and have a slightly more positive view of teachers' unions these days.
January 26, 2016
Americans Tired of Elites Considering Them Stupid and Vicious By Michael Barone
How stupid and vicious do they think we are? That's a question that I think explains a lot of things about politics and society today -- and about this year's unpredicted presidential race.
The "us" in that question are ordinary citizens and the "they" are political and media elites who hold them in contempt -- which they do over and over again by trying to obfuscate and cover up the source and motives of terrorist attacks.
January 25, 2016
32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending January 21.
January 25, 2016
48% of GOP Voters Prefer A Candidate Without Political Experience
The good news for Donald Trump is that nearly half of Republicans say they’d rather vote for a candidate who has never held political office over one with political experience. The bad news is that other voters don’t share that view nearly as strongly.
January 25, 2016
Benghazi Movie Is Much Hotter Ticket for GOPers Than For Democrats
The names Obama and Clinton never appear in “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” but Republicans are still twice as likely as Democrats to have the new movie on their viewing list. The film details the on-the-ground circumstances surrounding the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya on September 11-12, 2012, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.
January 23, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 23, 2016
It isn’t just Donald Trump. A whole lot of voters are angry at the current policies of the federal government. Can you blame them?
January 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders Could Win By Ted Rall
The independent senator from Vermont says the economic system is rigged against working-class Americans. He's right.
The electoral political system is a subsidiary of those who rule the economy. Which is why Bernie Sanders never stood a chance. The political system was rigged against him.
January 22, 2016
Trump Change: Trump Still Running Strong With Iowa Looming
Following Sarah Palin’s endorsement and with just over a week to go until the Iowa caucus, Republican voters are more strongly convinced than ever that Donald Trump will be their party’s presidential nominee. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
January 22, 2016
Is the Spectre of Trump Haunting Davos? by Pat Buchanan
The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.
January 22, 2016
Do Emotions Trump Facts? By Thomas Sowell
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20 years -- TWENTY YEARS -- was a follower of a preacher who poured out his hatred for America in the most gross gutter terms.
January 22, 2016
Does Palin Help or Hurt Trump?
Voters in general don’t think much of Sarah Palin and see her endorsement of Donald Trump as more harmful than helpful to his candidacy. But for Republicans and conservative voters in particular, the intended audience as the Iowa caucus nears, a Palin endorsement is a plus.
January 22, 2016
Karl Rove: Why McKinley Still Matters By Michael Barone
The economy has been staggering, with stagnant or no growth, for several years, after a financial crisis. Loud complaints have been raised against Wall Street financiers and the concentration of great wealth in few hands. Rapid technological development is generating massive economic change, with many old-line jobs vanishing. Majorities disapprove of the Democratic president, as they had of his Republican predecessor.
January 21, 2016
Putin Not A Factor In U.S. Election So Far
Following a British government report that suggests Vladimir Putin approved of the assassination of a Russian dissident spy in England, Donald Trump is again being questioned about his generally favorable comments about the Soviet leader. As far as Trump is concerned, Putin is a strong leader and no threat to the United States.
January 21, 2016
Voters Say Politics, Not Best Deal, What Government Contracts All About
Most voters continue to strongly doubt that the government is playing it smart with taxpayer money.
January 21, 2016
The Modern History of the Republican Presidential Primary, 1976-2012 By Geoffrey Skelley
The presidential nomination process has a history of being fuzzy. For much of the nation’s political existence, starting in the 1830s, national party conventions selected nominees for the highest office in the land. At these events, the oft-used term “smoke-filled rooms” described the sometimes behind-the-scenes activity that led to the final selection of a nominee. Sometimes this person was an obvious, well-known national figure; other times, an unexpected, relative unknown captured the nomination.
January 21, 2016
Most See Less Government As Answer to Income Gap
Many continue to complain about the growing difference in income between rich and poor in America and want the government to do something about it. But voters still think that’s a bad idea.
January 20, 2016
How's Your Drinking Water?
While the residents of Flint, Michigan deal with the repercussions of lead-contaminated drinking water, the vast majority of Americans still consider their home water supply quite dependable.
January 20, 2016
Mayor de Blasio: Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash by Michelle Malkin
Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple taxpayers:
January 20, 2016
GOP Says Government A Problem; For Democrats, It’s the Solution
Is the government a problem or the solution to problems? It depends on which political party you belong to.
