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June 8, 2015Empty Symbolism: Why the Freedom Act Sucks By Ted Rall
Marketed as pro-privacy reform of the rancid Patriot Act, the USA Freedom Act is about to become law. Though nothing could be further from the truth, many Americans will believe that the NSA is being reined in, and move on another issue.
The Freedom Act has been characterized as another vindication of Edward Snowden -- and, considering the fact that we wouldn't be discussing the balance between individual privacy rights and national security if he hadn't made the NSA's spying against us public, it is.

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                            June 6, 2015What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls -- Week Ending June 6, 2015
The race for president is getting so crowded that it seems like soon there may be more of them than there are of us.
June 5, 2015Who Can Play a Mixed-Race Role? By Michelle Malkin
Let's set aside whether Cameron Crowe's new movie, "Aloha," is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flick's merits or demerits, it has inadvertently helped expose the arbitrary, capricious and ridiculous demands of militant identity politics.   

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                            June 5, 2015Voters Don’t Play Favorites When It Comes to Immigration
As far as legal immigration is concerned, voters are more about fair play than about what might be better for the country.
June 5, 2015Are We In for Another High-Crime Era After the Response to Ferguson and Baltimore? by Michael Barone
Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America? A new nationwide crime wave?

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                            June 5, 2015Graham Runs Dead Last Among Republicans
Longtime Senator Lindsey Graham has entered the sea of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but GOP voters rate the South Carolinian the longest of the long-shots in the race so far.

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                            June 4, 2015Are Voters Willing To Pay to Combat Global Warming?
Most voters still aren't ready to pay much, if anything, to fight global warming, but a slightly higher number are willing to spend more for the cause.

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                            June 4, 2015Most Are Still Fans of Legal Immigration
Most voters continue to welcome those who immigrate to this country legally, and they’re even more welcoming if illegal immigration is stopped.
June 4, 2015The College Board's Sabotage of American History by Michelle Malkin
A stellar group of American historians and academics released a milestone open letter yesterday in protest of deleterious changes to the advanced placement U.S. history (APUSH) exam. The signatories are bold intellectual bulwarks against increasing progressive attacks in the classroom on America's unique ideals and institutions.

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                            June 4, 2015Global Warming Still A Concern to Most Voters
President Obama recently told the graduating class of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that denying global warming undermines U.S. national security Concern about global warming is up from recent months, but voters still aren’t totally convinced that humans are to blame.
June 4, 2015The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is the Other Party By Alan I. Abramowitz and Steven Webster Emory University
Which candidate will emerge from the crowded Republican presidential field next year? Can anyone stop or at least slow down Hillary Clinton’s seemingly inevitable march to the Democratic nomination? Will Democrats be able to match the GOP in Super PAC spending? And will there be new revelations about Clinton’s e-mails or the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising practices?
These are some of the questions that are dominating discussion of the 2016 presidential election in the media and among Washington political insiders. What you need to know is that the answers to these questions, interesting as they might be, will have almost no bearing on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

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                            June 3, 2015Support Remains Strong for Showing Photo ID Before Voting
Some attitudes don’t change: Voters continue to overwhelmingly believe that Americans need to prove their identity before casting a vote.
June 3, 2015Socialist "Justice" By John Stossel
Protestors demand "social justice." I hate their chant. If I oppose their cause, then I'm for social "injustice"? Nonsense.  

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                            June 3, 2015NSA - Friend or Foe?
Americans have a love/hate relationship with the National Security Agency, but the love side of the equation’s been growing as they worry more about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
June 3, 2015Paying the Price By Thomas Sowell
Baltimore is now paying the price for irresponsible words and actions, not only by young thugs in the streets, but also by its mayor and the state prosecutor, both of whom threw the police to the wolves, in order to curry favor with local voters.
Now murders in Baltimore in May have been more than double what they were in May last year, and higher than in any May in the past 15 years. Meanwhile, the number of arrests is down by more than 50 percent.

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                            June 3, 2015Santorum, Pataki Are Long Shots for GOP Nod
Former New York Governor George Pataki and Rick Santorum, the one-time Pennsylvania senator who came up short in the 2012 presidential contest, have joined the crowded Republican race for 2016, but GOP voters think they have little chance of capturing their party's presidential nomination.

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                            June 2, 2015O’Malley Has a Big Sales Job to Democrats Ahead
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is an even bigger unknown to members of his own party than Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, but both men have a steep hill to climb if they’re going to take next year’s Democratic presidential nomination away from Hillary Clinton.
June 2, 2015Why Must Americans Clean Up a Foreign Sport? by Froma Harrop
The competent Loretta Lynch can no doubt handle the job of cleansing professional soccer of widespread corruption. But why is that the U.S. attorney general's job? One must ask.
June 2, 2015Is it Time for Civil Disobedience of Kludgeocratic Bureaucracy? By Michael Barone
Is there any way to reverse the trend to ever more intrusive, bossy government? Things have gotten to such a pass, argues Charles Murray, that only civil disobedience might -- might -- work. But the chances are good enough, he says, that he's written a book about it: "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission."  

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                            June 2, 2015Voters Still Question Whether Most Immigrants Want the American Dream
Voters remain overwhelmingly positive about immigrants who work hard to support their families but also still wonder whether that is usually the case these days.