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Jan 09 2016
News
Ouch: Jeb's Image Tanks With Republican Voters - Especially Men
A new Gallup survey indicates that Team Jeb needs to urgently "fix" his current image with the American public.
The former Florida governor’s run in the 2016 presidential race hasn’t exactly gone as planned. The current RealClearPolitics average puts him at below 4 percent.
When you consider how far he’s fallen since July, the drop is especially stark:
Former Florida Gov.
TownhallMar 18 2013
News
LUTHI: Playing costly games with energy resources
The first few months of President Obamas second term have provided plenty of evidence of his disconnect from basic economics and his planned policies promise more of the same. Take for example his reference to a proposed Energy Security Trust in his 2013 State of the Union Address.
Washington TimesJan 11 2014
News
‘Year of action’: Obama vows to act ‘on his own’ when necessary
President Obama called Saturday for a “year of action,” and he acknowledged those plans include more executive action. “I’ll keep doing everything I can to create new jobs and new opportunities for American families — with Congress, on my own, and with everyone willing to play their part,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address.
Washington TimesJan 06 2013
News
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Reported Obama Gun Proposals ‘Way in Extreme’
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D, told me this morning on “This Week that while all options should be on the table to address gun violence, President Obamas reported plans to curb shootings are way in extreme when I pressed her this morning on the kinds on measures she could potentially support.
ABC News (Online)Sep 19 2013
News
Defiant Assad claims government did not use chem weapons, vows to abide by agreement
Syrian President Bashar Assad in an interview with Fox News,claimed he is fully committed to carrying out a plan to turn over and destroy his governments chemical weapons -- while continuing to deny responsibility for last months deadly chemical weapons attack, despite new evidence that officials say implicates the Assad regime.
Fox News DigitalJan 21 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Obama goes on offense
President Obama delivered a tough State of the Union address that offered some solace to Democrats who feared he had given up the fight. Most importantly, he put forth a controversial plan to tax wealthier Americans through reforms that close loopholes in order to finance tax cuts for middle class Americans, tapping into the populist sentiment that has driven support for politicians like Sen.
CNN DigitalJun 18 2019
News
Facebook Unveils Cryptocurrency Libra as an Alternative to Bitcoin
Move is the most ambitious effort yet to take blockchain payments mainstream
Facebook Inc. formally announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra, promising a secure blockchain-based payment system backed by hard assets and designed for mainstream users.
Facebook named early Tuesday a series of big, corporate partners—including financial-services heavyweights Mastercard
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 18 2015
News
Why Republicans can't come up with an Obamacare replacement
In Philip Klein's new book Overcoming Obamacare, Cato's Michael Cannon scolds the right for getting outplayed, again and again, on health care.
"Conservatives are falling into the same trap now that they fell into with fighting the Clinton health plan ... they’re conceding the left’s premises that the government should be trying to provide everybody with health insurance, or the
VoxMar 08 2021
Perspectives Blog
Surveys Suggest America is a Religious Nation, Democrats Included
Americans are, by and large, a religious group. According to Gallup in 2020, 73% of Americans thought religion was at least fairly important in their own lives. Four years earlier, Gallup found that 89% of Americans believed in God or a universal spirit.
Stereotypes often cast Republicans as religious and Democrats as atheists; however, survey data shows that while Republicans in
Hyria StuartMar 08 2013
Opinion
Rebellion in states to block broader Medicaid
Many Republican governors who said they plan to take Medicaid money under President Obamas health care law now find theyre facing a revolt within their own state parties where GOP legislatures are none-too-eager to approve signing up for what they call Obamacare.
Washington Times