Donna Martinez

Shaftesbury Society is taking the week off. Enjoy the Independence Day holiday!…

From the latest Harvard-Harris poll of registered voters, taken just days ago. The poll comes to us from former Clinton pollster and strategist Mark Penn and it contains fascinating results on a variety of immigration-related questions and issues. For example, how about the latest push from progressives who say…

To commemorate Independence Day, Shaftesbury Society will not meet Monday, July 2. Do you know which three North Carolinians signed the Declaration of Independence? Find out here. …

This week’s CBS News Battleground Tracker Poll of U.S. adults is making headlines for its questions about views on immigration policy. But it’s question #4 that stopped me in my tracks. These results should be flipped. We have lots of work ahead if we are to restore an…

Senior Fellow Joe Coletti has teamed with John Hendrickson of Iowans for Tax Relief in urging Iowa lawmakers to couple their recent tax reform with spending restraint. It’s the fiscal model North Carolina has followed — and which the John Locke Foundation has championed. Writing for the online…

It’s bad news for Harley-Davidson employees in this country, and the news comes from the Associated Press (AP). Production of Harley-Davidson motorcycles sold in Europe will move from U.S. factories to facilities overseas, the Milwaukee-based company announced Monday, a consequence of the retaliatory tariffs the EU is imposing on American exports…

Expand government and you’ll grow the economy? Dr. Roy Cordato examines the flaws in this view an concludes: The point here is that, while public sector spending adds to GDP in official government statistics, it can only increase spending at the expense of the private sector because of the…

A new poll from Rasmussen shows that many Americans believe robotic technology is not only here to stay, the use of robots will expand and make a big impact on the job market. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 64% of American Adults think…