In the first survey conducted since Justice Elena Kagan has actively participated in U.S. Supreme Court hearings, 38% of Likely Voters say the high court is doing a good or excellent job. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 18% give the Supreme Court a poor rating on their job performance.
With opposing political parties controlling the House and Senate, chances for repealing the national health care law appear slim, so some opponents have suggested that Republicans in the House refuse to fund portions of the law.
In his last remaining hours as California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger issued three sentence commutations. The most notable went to the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, Esteban Nunez, who is serving time for voluntary manslaughter.
Consider this immigration case from Canada: Three years ago, a Mexican sister and brother moved illegally to Toronto. Brenda Garcia, 30, filed for refugee status, claiming fear of persecution back home for being lesbian. Her brother, 18-year-old Daniel Garcia, enrolled in a Toronto high school. Both said they might be killed upon returning to Mexico City.
In the first survey conducted since Justice Elena Kagan has actively participated in U.S. Supreme Court hearings, 38% of Likely Voters say the high court is doing a good or excellent job. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 18% give the Supreme Court a poor rating on their job performance.
Most Internet users like the search engines available to them but worry about the privacy of their searches online. However, those who use the Internet most frequently express a lower level of concern.
While the extension of Bush-era tax cuts dominated headlines during the recently-concluded lame duck session of Congress, the coming year will bring with it a renewed focus on public debt – whether policymakers like it or not.
Looks like a few more Americans will be taking a vacation this winter.
Confidence in a house as a family's best investment appears to be inching back up, but Americans continue to say now is not a good time to sell a home in the area they live in.
Most Internet users in America say they go online to answer routine questions, and they give overwhelmingly positive marks to today’s Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
My little neighborhood sandwich shop was invaded today by a horde of high school students from a school I'd never heard of. The students were more diverse than the neighborhood.
Curious fact, unearthed by Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal. The average age of Republican House members in the new Congress convening this week is 54.9, younger than the Republicans' average age in the previous Congress, 56.5. But the average age of House Democrats has risen, from 58 to 60.2.
Even as President Obama insists that troop withdrawals will begin in July as scheduled, voter confidence in the course of the war in Afghanistan remains low.
Over the next four weeks, the Crystal Ball is going to roll out its very first look at the 2012 contests for Senate, Governor, House, and President.
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, January 2. That's down four points from last week and back to levels found a month ago.
One-in-three homeowners now say they owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth, but slightly fewer expect to miss a house payment in the next six months.
Voters still show little confidence in how America is fighting the War on Terror.
Voters see “Tea Party” a bit less negatively as a political label these days, while “liberal” and “progressive” have lost ground even among Democrats.
The pas-de-deux between the Republican House and the Democratic president and Senate can get old pretty quickly. The Republican House passes repeal of ObamaCare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The Republican House passes spending cuts. The Senate ... you get the drift.
As we begin a new year, it may be useful to look back to one particular piece of advice that George Washington gave us in his farewell address. In paragraph 28, he reminded us that:
"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?"
