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.
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Well this is a bit unsurprising, but absurd nonetheless given that the Obama administration decided to make the sale of arms to Egypt now exceed arms to Israel. In the meeting with the Egyptian politicians, they claim that their “war is with America and Israel not Ethiopia.”
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.
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Jan Morgan was embedded in the liberal mainstream media news business before she “got out to tell the truth,” and she can tell first hand how, gun control, has “never been about guns it has always been about control.”
Heritage is asking to spread the work about the Senate amnesty bill push that kicked up into gear yesterday. Whether or not the bill amounts to amnesty is your decision, but one fact is certain, this bill will die in the House, and it appears that is the intended design.
Voters continue to recognize there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection and don’t view themselves as selfish for putting the economy first.
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A pro-life legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, released an audio recording of a 2012 phone call between an IRS agent and the head of a Texas pregnancy counseling group.
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.
