Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli made headlines last week when he purchased the rights to a drug used to fight AIDS complications and increased the price by 5000% overnight. Shkreli later promised to lower the price under pressure from medical groups and politicians, but the incident highlighted the continuing problem of rising prescription drug costs.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
Democrats are all for letting Joe Biden participate in their first presidential candidate debate and are pretty convinced that it’s only a matter of time before he enters the race.
It looks like Republican voters are ready to clean house when it comes to the party's top two congressional leaders.
For months we’ve argued that Kentucky’s increasing lean toward the Republican Party and the state’s antipathy toward President Barack Obama gave businessman Matt Bevin, the Republican nominee, a generic edge in the open Kentucky gubernatorial race. While Bevin is not a strong candidate, we thought that ultimately those inherent advantages — advantages that have nothing to do with Bevin’s campaign — nonetheless made him a small favorite over state Attorney General Jack Conway (D).
Russia is ramping up its military and political presence in Syria and has begun bombing there in an effort to aid its allies in the Syrian government and their fight against the radical Islamic State group (ISIS).
The impending departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something. But an opportunity is not a guarantee. It is a little like a football team being first down and goal at the ten-yard line.
Republicans feel pretty good about John Boehner’s decision to resign as speaker of the House of Representatives. Democrats are more likely to see Boehner’s resignation as bad both for the country and the GOP.
You've heard endlessly about "white privilege" from the professional social justice warrior gripers. But rarely does that crusading crowd -- or their spiritual leaders in the White House -- acknowledge the brutal impact of wealthy Middle Eastern thug privilege in America.
The world has enough real problems without declaring everyone a "victim."
First they ignored him. Then they mocked him. Then they tried tearing him down.
With each failure to destroy Donald Trump, the political experts and establishment stooges only made him stronger. And now they don’t have a clue what to do.
In November 1964 a crowd of 5,000 attended the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and transportation and parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush last week said multiculturalism is bad for America because immigrants need to assimilate to benefit from all this country has to offer. Voters are a bit more sympathetic to multiculturalism but still strongly feel learning to speak English is a must.
Nowhere has there been so much hand-wringing over a lack of "affordable housing," as among politicians and others in coastal California. And nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than those same politicians and their supporters.
Presidential hopefuls from both parties are making the rounds on the late-night talk show circuit in record numbers and appear to be having more success reaching younger voters through the increasingly popular medium.
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 September 24.
President Obama’s health care law might have taken a back seat to other issues like immigration in the early stages of the presidential campaign season, but will it impact how voters choose their candidates next year?
Obamacare still hasn’t won over most voters who continue to say the health care law doesn’t offer them enough choices when it comes to health insurance.
Pope Francis’ visit this week to the United States is likely to have put religion on the minds of many more Americans.
If you did it once, you'd be fired.
If you did it hundreds of times, you'd go to prison.
Why should a corporation worth billions of dollars be treated more leniently than we individuals?
