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The Most And Least Popular U.S. Senators

The Most And Least Popular U.S. Senators

According to a new poll by Morning Consult, the most popular senator in the U.S. is independent and once presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

As Statista's Martin Armstrong points out, voters in his state of Vermont have given him a net approval rating of 54 percent - 75 percent saying they approve of the job he is doing, 21 percent saying they disapprove.

You will find more statistics at Statista

5 Charts That Explain Just How Screwed Your State Is

5 Charts That Explain Just How Screwed Your State Is

We've spent a lot of time of late discussing the precarious financial positions of states like Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey which each suffer from their own myriad of financial threats including massive budget deficits, monstrous unfunded pension liabilities, pending debt downgrades, etc.  In case you've missed those notes, here is a recap for your amusement:

National Security Chair Calls For Investigation Of Comey's "Political Warfare"; "Purge" Of Obama Holdovers

National Security Chair Calls For Investigation Of Comey's "Political Warfare"; "Purge" Of Obama Holdovers

Last night, just as the Russian-collusion hysteria was reaching a new fevered pitch on the back of reports that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting with a Russian-born lawyer who promised juicy opposition research on Hillary Clinton, we took the opportunity to ask which was more disturbing: (i) that Jr.

'Generation Z' Are Nothing Like Millennials, Professor Warns Liberals

Authored by Dan Jackson via CampusReform.org,

A political science professor in Pennsylvania says Democrats need to worry, because the generation replacing their millennial allies on college campuses has a distinct libertarian streak.

Jeff Brauer, a professor at Keystone College, has been gathering data on “Generation Z,” and recently told The New York Post that he expects the rising generation of college students to differ markedly from those currently dominating campus culture.

New Study Suggests War Lust May Have Cost Hillary Clinton The Election

New Study Suggests War Lust May Have Cost Hillary Clinton The Election

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Late last week, I came across a fascinating article published at Mondoweiss highlighting a recent study positing that Hilary Clinton may have lost the election to Donald Trump partly as a result of her well documented lust for imperial war and aggression.

Here are a few excerpts from the piece:

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