What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 26, 2015
Some may consider it politically incorrect to say so, but America remains a strongly Christian nation.
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December 26, 2015
December 25, 2015
Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages by Ted Rall
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8-inch floppies replaced by 5.25-inch medium replaced by little 3.5-inch floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
December 25, 2015
Conservatives' Biographies Show How History Can Move Right by Michael Barone
Biography is one way -- often the most vivid way -- in which people understand history. The beautifully written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt that rolled off the presses and rose in the bestseller lists in the 1950s and 1960s created a template in which the New Deal was central to American history. It was the culmination of what happened before the 1930s and the model for what should and would happen next.
December 25, 2015
It’s Christmas Time In America
Christmas remains the top holiday for most Americans.
December 24, 2015
Religious Attendance Up This Christmas
More Americans will be at religious services this holiday season.
December 24, 2015
14% Still Have Not Yet Begun to Holiday Shop
‘Tis the day before Christmas, and Americans are still shopping at a record pace.
December 23, 2015
Americans Favor Getting the Feds Out of the Classroom
Congress and the president earlier this month scrapped the national education dictates of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law and returned control of school standards to states and localities. This is expected to lessen the focus on standardized testing. Americans, especially those with school-age children, approve.
December 23, 2015
Trump’s Latest Treatise Deploys Subliminally Sinister Attack On Clinton By Charles Hurt
If you think “The Art of the Deal” was a yuuuuuuuuuuge success — and it was — just wait until Donald Trump comes out with his latest masterpiece, “The Art of the Schlong.”
In “The Art of the Deal,” the real estate mogul tutors budding young mogul wannabes on how to make deals so that they, too, can build giant glass skyscrapers emblazoned with their names in gold.
December 23, 2015
Politicians Without Borders by John Stossel
When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff.
December 23, 2015
Are You Traveling This Holiday Season?
Many Americans will be traveling this holiday season, but twice as many will be hosting loved ones.
December 22, 2015
Clinton Loses Ground in Democratic Primary Race
Following Saturday night's debate, the race between the top two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination is closer than ever, but Hillary Clinton is the heavy favorite among voters who are already certain of their vote in 2016.
December 22, 2015
The Known -- and Unknown -- Unknowns in the Republican Race Ahead By Michael Barone
Some observations on the 2016 presidential race as we head into the dark period, i.e., the two weeks of Christmas and New Year's holidays in which no one has ever dared, at least in the past, to conduct any polls. Those of us who pick over poll results will have to fly blind until the week starting Jan. 4.
December 22, 2015
Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict? By Pat Buchanan
"I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here ... and ... around the world, that there is a 'clash of civilizations.'"
December 22, 2015
Does Praise from Putin Help or Hurt Trump?
Most U.S. voters still don’t care too much for Russian President Vladimir Putin but don’t think his recent praise of Donald Trump will hurt the latter’s bid for the presidency. At the same time, voters agree with Trump that the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russia is not good for America.
December 22, 2015
The Busybody Left By Thomas Sowell
The political left has been trying to run other people's lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have.
December 21, 2015
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending December 17.
December 21, 2015
Do Democrats Really Need Any More Debates?
Political lightning seems unlikely to strike Hillary Clinton twice.
December 21, 2015
For Political News, TV Still Rules
Despite society’s ever-growing reliance on the Internet, most voters still prefer to turn on the television to get their political news.
December 19, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 19, 2015
The national Democratic Party is holding its third pre-primary debate this evening, safely tucked away from weeknight prime-time viewers.
December 18, 2015
In Defense of Donald Trump's Namecalling By Ted Rall
Donald Trump likes to call people "stupid." And/or "loser."
