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January 1, 2016
January 1, 2016
Obama Reshapes Presidential Politics -- But Maybe Not To Democrats' Benefit By Michael Barone
One thing that's striking about the presidential race, which, finally, officially begins soon, is how much the race has been shaped by Barack Obama. The course of the contests for both the Republican and Democratic nominations would be inconceivable absent the course of the Obama presidency.
January 1, 2016
Winners & Losers: 2015 By Pat Buchanan
Each year, "The McLaughlin Group," the longest-running panel show on national TV, which began in 1982, announces its awards for the winners and losers and the best and the worst of the year.
Rereading my list of 39 awardees suggests something about how our world is changing.
December 31, 2015
Americans Aren’t Big on New Year’s Resolutions
Many Americans aren’t starting off 2016 on a new foot, but those who are plan to stick with it.
December 31, 2015
Will Bill Be A Plus or A Minus for Hillary’s Campaign?
Hillary Clinton vowed earlier this month to unleash her husband, former President Bill Clinton, on the campaign trail on her behalf in January, but that’s looking less like a good idea.
December 31, 2015
Most Will Greet 2016 With A Kiss
Americans are slightly more inclined to spend this New Year’s Eve at home, but they plan to welcome the new year just the same as always.
December 30, 2015
Government Workers Are Least Likely to Work on Holidays
Most working Americans still get major holidays off, especially if they work for the government.
December 30, 2015
Criticism of Obama’s Leadership Rises
As Barack Obama enters his final year as president, voters are more critical of his leadership abilities.
December 30, 2015
Defining Political Child Abuse: A Tale of Two Cruz Families By Michelle Malkin
Remember 5-year-old Sophie Cruz?
December 30, 2015
With the Big Dog at her side, Hillary’s sexism charges ring hollow by Charles Hurt
He has been her meal ticket into national politics. He has been the sex predator in the White House whom she ruthlessly covered for. He has been her own personal dog in heat.
December 30, 2015
Few Americans See A Brighter Economic Future
More than a third of Americans say they are in worse financial shape than they were last year at this time, and most of them expect to be even worse off 12 months from now.
December 29, 2015
Remembering 2015 By Thomas Sowell
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
December 29, 2015
Voters Give Thumbs Down to GOP-Led Congress
Voters including members of their own party aren’t pleased with the Republicans’ control of both chambers of Congress this past year.
December 29, 2015
Is the West Disintegrating? by Pat Buchanan
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, "Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent," contained this pessimistic prognosis:
December 29, 2015
Supreme Court Grapples, Once Again, With Redistricting By Michael Barone
Fifty-one years ago the Supreme Court handed down its one-person-one-vote decision, requiring that within each state congressional and legislative districts must have equal populations.
December 29, 2015
Voters Say Deportation Policies Not Aggressive Enough
Most voters continue to believe the government isn’t cracking down enough on illegal immigration and still take issue with a central provision in President Obama’s plan to exempt up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation.
December 28, 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 short holiday week ending December 23.
December 28, 2015
Clinton vs. Trump: Still A Dead Heat
Presidential frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain all tied up in a hypothetical matchup heading into 2016.
December 28, 2015
History in Red and Blue (and Green and Purple) By Larry J. Sabato and Tim Robinson
Simple maps can teach a lot. Presidential election maps show at a glance where the nation was at four-year intervals beginning in 1824, when popular voting (of a very restricted sort) became established. John Quincy Adams lost that vote but won the White House anyway in the House of Representatives.
