Why Can't Women Be Comfortable? By Froma Harrop
Women run companies and countries. Some even play on co-ed football teams. But there's one glaring gender disparity that never gets better and only seems to grow: comfort.
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July 29, 2011
July 28, 2011
71% Say Formal Education Key to Success in Life, Not Street Smarts
Most Americans continue to believe that what you learn inside the classroom is more valuable than what’s learned on the outside.
July 28, 2011
41% Rate U.S. Health Care System Good or Excellent, 28% Say Poor
Positive ratings for the U.S. health care system peaked last year in the midst of the health care reform debate, but they have fallen since.
July 28, 2011
Voters Expect Debt Ceiling To Be Raised, Doubt Long-Term Spending Will Be Cut
With less than five days left until the federal government could begin defaulting on its debts, voters continue to express unhappiness with both sides of the debt ceiling debate. While most voters continue to believe the debt ceiling will be raised before the government defaults, most don’t think the president and Congressional Republicans will agree on significant long-term spending cuts before the 2012 elections.
July 28, 2011
A Downgrade Is Serious Business By Lawrence Kudlow
Standard & Poor's government-credit-ratings guru David Beers played his cards close to the vest on the topic of a U.S. downgrade in our CNBC interview this week. However, this head of S&P's global sovereign-ratings business -- with a staff of 80 covering 126 countries -- issued three strong warnings to the debt-ceiling negotiators in Washington.
July 28, 2011
The Folly in Obama's 'Grand Bargain' by Debra J. Saunders
Here is what I do not understand: President Barack Obama is acutely aware of what will happen if Congress fails to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. As he told the nation Monday, if Washington does not raise the debt ceiling by Aug. 2, rating agencies are expected to downgrade the government's AAA credit rating, and interest rates will rise for everyone. The fallout could spark "a deep economic crisis."
July 28, 2011
Financially Troubled Homeowners Say No to Government Bailout
One of the enduring myths in the debate over federal spending is that voters want spending cuts in general but reject cuts to specific programs that help them. New data on the attitudes of financially troubled homeowners casts doubt upon that belief.
July 28, 2011
Under Obama, Millennials Move Into the Republican Fold By Michael Barone
Most presidents affect the standing of their political parties. Ronald Reagan advanced his party's standing among young voters. So did Bill Clinton.
July 27, 2011
17% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, July 24. That finding is the lowest measured since January 11, 2009.
July 27, 2011
Voters Skeptical About Fairness of Hiring Practices in Business World
Voters nationwide aren’t exactly confident that most employers in the business world are hiring the best candidates.
July 27, 2011
53% Oppose Nutritional Information on Restaurant Menus
As part of the new health care law, restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets will be required to disclose nutritional information in their menus. But most Americans would rather they not.
July 27, 2011
82% Say Workers Should Be Allowed To Choose Their Own Insurance
Though a majority of voters believe the system of employers providing health insurance to their workers is a good one, most believe employees should be allowed to pick their own.
July 27, 2011
Stand by Your Man By Susan Estrich
The headlines on the Drudge Report make it sound worse than it is: "Blacks, liberals flee in droves." And underneath: "Sanders (that's Bernie Sanders, the Independent from Vermont): Obama should face primary challenger." And above: "Obama's Base Crumbles."
July 27, 2011
Government by Coup de Theatre or the Constitution? By Tony Blankley
How have we arrived at this place where the fate of our federal budget -- our economy, indeed our capacity to have a functioning federal government -- seems to depend on what two men (the speaker of the House and the president) may or may not be secretly talking about in an interior room in the White House?
July 27, 2011
New High: 46% Think Most in Congress Are Corrupt
Voters are more convinced than ever that most congressmen are crooks.
July 26, 2011
Generic Republican Candidate 48%, Obama 42%
President Obama now earns his lowest level of support yet against a generic Republican candidate in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup.
July 26, 2011
47% Are Eating Out Less Often Than They Were Six Months Ago
Americans still prefer a home-cooked meal to one in a restaurant, and they’re eating out less than they were six months ago.
July 26, 2011
40% Favor Possible Sale of U.S. Postal Service to Lower the Deficit
The U.S. Postal Service has been struggling financially for some time, with Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe just today announcing the potential closings of nearly 3,700 offices nationwide. A growing number of Americans thinks now may be the time to sell the USPS to a private company.
July 26, 2011
New Low: 6% Think Congress Is Doing A Good or Excellent Job
Voter approval of the job Congress is doing has fallen to a new low - for the second month in a row.
Just six percent (6%) of Likely U.S. Voters now rate Congress' performance as good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Last month, Congressional approval ratings fell to what was then a record low with eight percent (8%) who rated its performance good or excellent.
July 26, 2011
Norwegian Crime and Punishment By Debra J. Saunders
In 2007, Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget proposed extending Norway's absolute maximum criminal sentence of 21 years to 30 years for genocide, crimes against humanity and terrorism. That proposal didn't go anywhere. The maximum criminal sentence in Norway is 21 years.
