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 June 25.
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June 29, 2015
June 29, 2015
Are Millennials the Most Ageist Generation Ever? by Ted Rall
Ever notice how those who complain about being victims are themselves at least as likely to be perpetrators of the same offense? Examples that come to mind for me include the United States and Israel, two countries that portray themselves as targets of terrorism while carrying out wars of aggression whose death tolls far exceed their own losses.
June 29, 2015
Voters Say WikiLeaks’ Disclosures Put U.S. Relationships At Risk
The hits just keep on coming. The rogue Internet site WikiLeaks last week released its latest batch of illegally obtained classified U.S. documents, this time showing that America has spied on the last three French presidents. The French government has formally protested, as did the Germans when our spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel was similarly disclosed in 2013.
June 29, 2015
Voters Want to Get Tough on Those Who Hire, House Illegal Immigrants
Most voters continue to believe the federal government is a supporter, not an opponent, of illegal immigration, and even more are in favor of imposing tougher sanctions on those who hire or rent property to those who are in this country illegally.
June 27, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 25, 2015
The shooting massacre at a black church by a young white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina late last week was a tragic development in the nation’s ongoing conversation on race relations. Following the shooting, several prominent politicians - including Republican Governor Nikki Haley - called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state’s capitol grounds.
Sixty percent (60%) of Likely U.S. Voters agree with this view and say the Confederate flag should not be flown at South Carolina’s statehouse. However, voters are more divided as to what the flag means: 43% say it symbolizes Southern heritage, while 39% say it symbolizes hatred. There’s a sharp difference of opinion between white and black voters on this question.
June 26, 2015
The Media's Vile Attacks on Conservative Assimilationists By Michelle Malkin
I have had enough of smug liberal elites wrapped in their "Celebrate Diversity" banners tearing down minority conservatives.
June 26, 2015
GOP Voters Weigh In On Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is the latest addition to the crowded Republican field in 2016, but he ranks low among GOP voters.
June 26, 2015
Facing a Changing World Balance, Obama Makes Odd Choices by Michael Barone
Is the world back to where it was around the year 1800? One could come to that conclusion after reading British historian John Darwin's recent book "After Tamerlane," which assesses the rises and falls of empires after the death in 1405 of the famously bloodthirsty Muslim Mongol monarch.
June 26, 2015
Voters Stress the Importance of Marriage Before Kids
Voters still strongly believe the order of events, marriage then children, is important in starting a family.
June 25, 2015
Voters Say No to Government Role in Neighborhood Diversity
With the Department of Housing and Urban Development ready to release new regulations meant to diversify wealthy neighborhoods, American voters overwhelmingly say that it is not the government’s job to try to bring those of different income levels to live together.
June 25, 2015
This Week in Polling: Voters Split on Gay Marriage But 33% Said Laws Should Be a State Decision
Fewer voters than ever now see marriage as a civil institution, and they’re still fairly torn on the issue of gay marriage.
June 25, 2015
The Democrats’ Mythical Third Term Obstacle By Joel K. Goldstein
Facts, Justice Louis Brandeis taught, are the basis of understanding. Yet facts, even if by definition true, can be misleading when stated imprecisely, without necessary qualifications, or out of context. The misleading power of truth was evident in recent political reporting that invoked history to suggest that Democratic presidential candidates have an uphill climb in winning the White House in 2016 because only once since 1951 has a party won the presidency in three straight elections.
June 24, 2015
Should South Carolina Take Down The Flag?
Most voters don’t think the Confederate flag should be flown at the South Carolina Capitol, but they differ when it comes to the flag’s meaning.
June 24, 2015
Marriage Seen as Less Civil, More Religious
Fewer voters than ever now see marriage as a civil institution, and they’re still fairly torn on the issue of gay marriage.
June 24, 2015
Mankiller Money? by John Stossel
A woman will be on the new $10 bill, bumping Alexander Hamilton aside. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says he will choose the woman by year's end, based on "input from the public."
June 24, 2015
Voters Believe People Get Rich Through Hard Work
When it comes to building wealth, voters don’t see an easy way out: they still believe most people get rich by working hard.
June 24, 2015
Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air By Michelle Malkin
Unlike Pope Francis, I believe that air-conditioning and the capitalists responsible for the technology are blessings to the world.
Perhaps the head of the Catholic Church, who condemned "the increasing use and power of air-conditioning" last week in a market-bashing encyclical, is unaware of the pioneering private company that has donated its time, energy and innovative heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment to the Vatican's most famous edifice for more than a decade.
June 23, 2015
Voters Are OK With FDA Nixing Trans Fats
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that food companies have three years to phase out partially hydrogenated oils, the main source of trans fat, and voters appear to be on board with the idea.
June 23, 2015
Hillary and History By Thomas Sowell
There are no sure things in politics, but Hillary Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to become the Democrats' candidate for president in 2016.
June 23, 2015
Clinton's Weakness in Important States By Michael Barone
Hillary Clinton has relaunched her campaign on Roosevelt Island with a 4,687-word speech. But it's not clear whether she and her husband, Bill Clinton, can win four presidential elections as Franklin D. Roosevelt did.
