In the wake of revelations about the federal government’s surveillance programs, FBI Director Robert Mueller defended the programs based on the collection of millions of U.S. phone records, emails and other information that people transmit online as being vital to the nation’s national security.
Americans’ confidence in Congress as an institution is down to 10%, which is the legislative body’s lowest ranking the and last on Gallup’s list of 16 societal institutions for the fourth straight year. Incredibly, this is the lowest level of confidence Gallup has found, not only for Congress, but for any institution on record. Americans remain most confident – 76% – in the institution that is the United States military.
In the latest Mayor Bloomberg gun control push, he is urging the city’s notoriously generous legions of Democratic donors to withhold funds from four Democratic senators who opposed an expanded background check bill earlier this year.
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Daniel J. Mitchell, columnist and economic scholar at the CATO Institute, was in Vienna for the annual European Resource Bank meeting. During a speech about the economic reform in Chile, specifically the system of personal retirement accounts, Mr. Pinera shared a chart that “conclusively shows why good economic policy makes a difference,” as Mitchell put it.
Former president George W. Bush’s approval rating has improved, with 49% of Americans now viewing him favorably and 46% unfavorably. That is the first time since 2005 that opinions of him have been more positive than negative.
A selloff that started in Asia, and
The markets seesawed in a tight range
Senator Feinstein is yet another example of the unintended consequences of the so-called “progressive” Seventeenth Amendment.
In a complete contradiction of earlier employee testimony, a self-described conservative Republican employed as a manager at the Internal Revenue Service Cincinnati office told congressional investigators that he, and not the White House, set in motion the review, said the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee.
