Check with those voting with their feet. As I've documented in the past, many leftist teachers teach our youngsters to hate our country. For example, University of Hawaii Professor Haunani-Kay Trask counseled her students, "We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who ... MORE
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FOX NEWS POLL: Majority Against Raising Debt Ceiling
But politicians LOVE to spend. Soon Congress will have to vote on raising the nation’s debt limit so the federal government can borrow more money to make good on its spending commitments. If it were up to the American public, they would vote no -- with a majority saying the debt limit should only be raised after major spending cuts have been ... MORE
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Poll Shows Ted Cruz Preferred GOP Candidate
Two liberty advocates top the list. PPP's newest national poll finds Ted Cruz is now the top choice of Republican primary voters to be their candidate for President in 2016. He leads the way with 20% to 17% for Rand Paul, 14% for Chris Christie, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% each for Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan, 4% for Bobby Jindal, and 3% each for Rick ... MORE
A Majority Of Americans Oppose The Internet Sales Tax
Our "representatives" continue to pursue it anyway. Public support is waning for the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute. The poll,
which was released last week, found that 57 percent of all likely
voters oppose legislation like the Marketplace ... MORE
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Rasmussen Poll: 82% Realize U.S. Is Not Winning Drug War
The people seem to be educable. Americans continue to overwhelmingly believe the so-called war on drugs is failing, but they are more divided on how much the United States should be spending on it. Just four percent (4%) of American Adults believe the United States is winning the war on drugs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports ... MORE
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Most Americans Favor 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
Quinnipiac University poll reveals inconvenient truth. Most U.S. voters support the "Stand Your Ground" laws, although the question of whether to retreat or use deadly force in self defense divides Americans along gender, racial and political lines, a national poll found on Friday. The February 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, ... MORE
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Americans More Concerned With Privacy Than Terrorism
A Pew Research study. For the first time in almost a decade, the majority of Americans are more concerned about the government infringing on their civil liberties than about a potential terrorist attack, according to a new poll by Pew Research. US citizens have traditionally responded to similar polls by saying the government has not ... MORE
Race Relations Plummet During The Obama Regime
Racial division a calling card of liberalism. Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, ... MORE
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Emily Goff: Cut Government Spending To Help Economy?
Majority says yes. A recent Rasmussen poll
(subscription required) found that 65 percent of likely voters want the
government to cut spending to help alleviate the country’s economic
woes. Four years after the official end of the recession in June 2009, the economy is growing sluggishly. As The Wall Street Journal reports
today, the ... MORE
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MediCare,
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Folks Use 'Incompetent' And 'Liar' To Describe Obama
Jennifer Harper on Pew Research findings. One gauge of a president’s favorability is the assorted descriptors the public volunteers to a pollster about the leader of the Free World. The Pew Research Center has tracked the assorted description of President Obama over the years, and has this to say: “The survey finds that the one-word ... MORE
Dan Mangan: Poll Finds ObamaCare Is Already Hurting Jobs
No surprise here. Small business owners' fear of the effect of the new health-care reform law on their bottom line is prompting many to hold off on hiring and even to shed jobs in some cases, a recent poll found. "We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it ... MORE
Poll: Americans Angry With DOJ's Intimidation Of Media
Federal tyranny is the only thing transparent. The Internal Revenue Service scandal is just one hot-button issue that the Obama administration is facing. The other is the government investigating reporters. And new poll new numbers indicate, many Americans are not happy with the Justice Department snooping on the press, CBS ... MORE
Bob Unruh: Nullification Is America's Answer To Feds
Avoid revolution, just say no. On the heels of a poll that showed 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll indicates Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. The previous poll by Fairleigh Dickinson ... MORE
Gun Crime Has Plunged, But Americans Think It Is Up
Emily Alpert on a Pew Research study. Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a ... MORE
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Gay Marriage Polls Foretell Marijuana Legalization
by Hunter Walker. With the Supreme Court now at least considering a definitive statement in favor of gay marriage and support for marriage equality now practically a litmus test issue for Democratic politicians, Americans across the political spectrum are expressing surprise at how rapidly this once marginalized idea became something like a ... MORE
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individual liberty,
legalize,
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politics,
poll,
pot,
society
Gun Control Efforts Persist But Public Support Dims
Polls find fewer favor gun rights restrictions. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
and other gun control advocates insisted Wednesday that both momentum
and public opinion are on their side, but recent polling shows Americans
turning against stricter laws as more time elapses since the Newtown ... MORE
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politics,
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Mark Thornton: Nullify The War On Drugs
The marriage of two liberty concepts. Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana.
These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type
of “generation effect,” in that people are not changing their minds as
they ... MORE
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government,
individual liberty,
jury nullification,
marijuana,
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prohibition
Rasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy
What are they thinking? Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new ... MORE
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Internet,
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A Former Drug Czar Advisor Compares Pot To Child Porn
by Matthew Feeney. If you thought former drug czar
advisor Paul Chabot couldn’t top his claim that alcohol prohibition
“actually
worked” you would be wrong. Chabot recently appeared on
HuffPost Live and compared marijuana to child pornography. From the
Huffington Post: When asked by HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim ... MORE
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