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June 24, 2016
June 23, 2016
Do College Campuses Have Less Freedom of Speech Now?
Earlier this month the president of DePaul University announced that he is stepping down following student protests that culminated in the shutting down of a speech by a prominent young conservative writer. The growing number of similar protests at other colleges and universities in recent months has a sizable number of Americans questioning whether free speech has a place on modern campuses.
June 23, 2016
Obama’s Whitewashing of the Orlando Massacre By Charles Hurt
Truly, there is no reserve of cynicism vast enough for decent, freedom-loving Americans to fully comprehend the diabolical motivations of President Obama and the henchmen he has running his administration.
June 23, 2016
Support for More Gun Control Jumps to New High
Support for additional gun control has risen to its highest level ever, but voters are evenly divided over whether more gun buying restrictions will help prevent future shootings like the one in Orlando.
June 23, 2016
The Electoral College: Map No. 2 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Some of our readers may recall that the Crystal Ball published its first 2016 Electoral College map at the end of March. It was somewhat controversial — at least judging by many of the reactions we received. As you see below, at that time we projected Hillary Clinton at 347 electoral votes and Donald Trump at 191. While Toss-ups are perfectly reasonable at this stage of the campaign, we decided for clarity’s sake to push every close state one way or the other.
June 23, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 39%
Hillary Clinton still holds a five-point lead over Donald Trump in Rasmussen Reports’ latest weekly White House Watch survey.
June 22, 2016
Home Brewers Are Bubbling Up
Craft beer is gaining popularity among American drinkers, and a sizable number now say they brew their own.
June 22, 2016
Horror and Hush-Up in Twin Falls, Idaho by Michelle Malkin
Something wicked happened in Idaho's rural Magic Valley. The evil has been compounded by politicians, media and special interest groups doing their damnedest to suppress the story and quell a righteous citizen rebellion.
June 22, 2016
GOPers Far More Critical of Party Leaders Than Democrats Are
Though there’s been voter anger towards the leaders of both major political parties in this year’s highly contentious presidential primary season, Republican voters are far more likely than Democrats to say their party bosses are out of touch with the voter base.
June 22, 2016
Warning: Labels By John Stossel
When you use a coffeepot, do you need a warning label to tell you: "Do not hold over people"?
June 22, 2016
66% of GOP Voters Think Most Top Republicans Don’t Want Trump to be President
Despite Donald Trump’s record turnout in this year’s primaries, most Republican voters are convinced that their party’s leaders don’t want him to get elected.
June 22, 2016
While Obama Frets Over Islamophobia, Terrorists Get Guns By Charles Hurt
Weeks before killing 49 infidels in Orlando, Omar Mateen walked into a Florida gun store trying to buy body armor and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Suspicious about a Middle Eastern-looking guy jabbering a foreign language into a cellphone, the gun-store clerk denied the man service.
June 21, 2016
A Tale of Two Elections: Clinton’s 2016 Primary Performance Versus 2008 By Geoffrey Skelley
One striking aspect of the Democratic primary race was the stark role-reversal in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance compared with her narrow loss to Barack Obama in 2008’s Democratic nomination battle. Whereas she ran against Obama in 2008, she positioned herself as his successor at every turn during her race against insurgent Bernie Sanders in 2016. It’s very easy to see the effect of this in a county-level map of the change in her performance from eight years ago to this cycle, as shown by the coloring in Map 1 below (a choropleth map). (We recommend clicking on the map for a much larger version.)
June 21, 2016
Party Affiliation Dictates Responses to Orlando
Two competing narratives have emerged in the wake of the terrorist shooting massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: President Obama and most Democratic leaders say it highlights the need for increased gun control, while most prominent Republicans say it represents the growing threat of domestic Islamic terrorism. Voters are divided along similar partisan lines when it comes to how best to prevent such attacks in the future.
June 21, 2016
Why We Have -- and Probably Will Keep Having -- Sluggish Job Growth By Michael Barone
Why has the American economy had such sluggish job creation and economic growth? That's a pretty fundamental question, and one for which most conventional economists have had unsatisfying answers.
June 21, 2016
Trolling for War with Russia By Patrick J. Buchanan
Some 50 State Department officials have signed a memo calling on President Obama to launch air and missile strikes on the Damascus regime of Bashar Assad.
A "judicious use of stand-off and air weapons," they claim, "would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process."
June 21, 2016
Young Voters Favor A Gay President; Older Voters Do Not
An openly gay candidate for the White House is still a long shot, but voters under 40 are a lot more enthusiastic about the prospect than their elders are.
June 21, 2016
The Gun Control Farce by Thomas Sowell
Surely murder is a serious subject, which ought to be examined seriously. Instead, it is almost always examined politically in the context of gun control controversies, with stock arguments on both sides that have remained the same for decades. And most of those arguments are irrelevant to the central question: Do tighter gun control laws reduce the murder rate?
June 20, 2016
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Following the terrorist massacre at an Orlando nightclub, only 26% 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 16.
June 20, 2016
Confidence In America’s Safety From Terrorism Plummets
Following the recent terrorist attack on an Orlando nightclub, fewer voters than ever believe the United States today is safer than it was before 9/11.
