Americans Still Oppose Ban on Hate Speech
Adults nationwide may believe hate is growing in America, but that doesn’t mean they want the government interfering with free speech.
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April 28, 2011
April 28, 2011
Barbour's Withdrawal Gives No Clues to GOP 2012 Nominee By Michael Barone
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's abrupt withdrawal from the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- after hiring a topnotch New Hampshire campaign manager and planning to fly around the country next week -- has naturally inspired a lot of punditry on the Republican presidential race.
April 27, 2011
21% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, A New Low
Twenty-one percent (21%) 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, April 24. It's the fourth week in a row that the measurement has gone down, with confidence in the nation's course now reaching the lowest point of the Obama presidency.
April 27, 2011
22% Say England Should Abolish Monarchy, 51% Disagree
As England prepares to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, most Americans think the British royal family is a good thing for its country.
April 27, 2011
Americans Are Reluctant to Defend Any of These Allies
The United States has military defense treaties with over 50 other nations. In addition to surveys about countries regularly in the news, Rasmussen Reports has been periodically asking Americans how they feel about defending some of these treaty countries if they are attacked. On the most recent list of nine countries, American Adults don’t feel strongly about defending any of them.
April 27, 2011
72% Say Taxpayers Not Getting Their Money’s Worth from Public Schools
Voters overwhelmingly believe that taxpayers are not getting a good return on what they spend on public education, and just one-in-three voters think spending more will make a difference.
April 27, 2011
In Search of Neuter Judges By Susan Estrich
Many years ago, the late and great U.S. District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York was assigned to hear a case alleging sex discrimination by one of New York's top law firms. The plaintiffs were no doubt as pleased by the assignment as the defendants were displeased: Judge Motley had served as one of Thurgood Marshall's top deputies at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, before Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court and Motley to the federal district court. She was widely known as a strong supporter of women's rights.
April 27, 2011
The Bottom Line: The Left Hates Oil Companies By Lawrence Kudlow
When oil prices blew sky high in 2008, ExxonMobil paid $36.5 billion in income taxes, $34.5 billion in sales taxes, and $45 billion in other taxes, for a total of $116.2 billion in taxes paid and collected in 2008. That’s according to Mark Perry at the Carpe Diem blog.
April 27, 2011
45% Say States, Not Feds, Should Set Health Care Standards
Most voters favor repeal of the national health care law, but they’re more narrowly divided when asked whether the federal government should set health care standards for the entire country.
April 27, 2011
The Final Frontiers of Employee Discrimination By Cliff Ennico
I hope you were as amused as I was to read about the recent discrimination lawsuit against Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J.
April 26, 2011
67% Say U.S. Society Fair and Decent, 43% Think Obama Agrees
Most voters continue to believe U.S. society is fair and decent, but far fewer feel President Obama agrees with them.
April 26, 2011
Just One-In-Four View Geithner, Holder Favorably
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder remain two of the top players in the Obama administration, and most voters continue not to like them or not know who they are.
April 26, 2011
51% Say Hate is Growing in America
Half of adults nationwide believe hate is growing in this country, but Americans are more narrowly divided when it comes to punishing so-called hate crimes.
April 26, 2011
67% Favor Expanding Use of Nurse Practitioners For Routine Care
With a growing shortage of doctors projected for the years ahead, a number of states are considering or have already passed legislation that allows nurse practitioners to step in for physicians in routine cases. Most voters think that’s a good idea.
April 26, 2011
What Would Jesus Cut? By Debra J. Saunders
It wasn't that long ago when Democratic members of Congress were warning about conservative colleagues trying to insert their religion into politics by trying to cut funding for Planned Parenthood. For issues concerning family planning, the left generally agrees that it is wrong to impose religion on politics.
April 26, 2011
Just 23% Realize Deficit Largely Due to Commitments Made in 1960s and ‘70s
Even though the last session of Congress was one of the biggest spending in history, very few voters are aware that most of today’s federal budget deficit is actually the product of congressional decisions made decades ago.
April 26, 2011
Only the Republican Study Committee Budget Gets the Job Done By Tony Blankley
Last weekend, David Ignatius in his Washington Post column made a vital contribution to the debt and deficit debate: "Take the deficit pain now. It's a truth of economics and life that if you have bad news coming, take the hit early and get it behind you. You can't start building until the debris is out of the way."
April 25, 2011
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 42%, Democrats 40%
Republicans hold just a two-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending April 24, 2011. This is the narrowest gap between the two parties since October 2009.
April 25, 2011
43% Say Most Members of Congress Are Corrupt
Mark Twain once said, “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” A large number of Americans share that skepticism.
April 25, 2011
Those Confident That America’s Best Days Lie Ahead Down to 31%
Voter confidence that the nation’s best days are still to come has fallen to its lowest level ever.
