“Pew Research Center” on The Daily Caller

The unlawful flow of Mexican immigrants into the U.S. continues to slow, and the nation’s illegal immigrant population is down by nearly 1 million people, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a report released today. (more)

WASHINGTON — Nearly one in five Americans incorrectly say President Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% last year, according to a Pew Research Center poll released today. (more)

Despite strong rhetoric from the Obama administration in support of a federal immigration overhaul, time is running out for Congress to pass a comprehensive bill by the end of the year, leaving advocates for reform wondering when, if ever, a bill will make it to the House and Senate floors. (more)

For decades, government employees at every level have received steadily increasing compensation—including salary, pensions, and health care benefits—thanks to the political clout of public employee unions. Yet that era may be coming to a close. Years of profligacy have led to the vast majority of public pensions now being significantly underfunded. State and local governments can no longer avoid the problem. For that reason, 2010 may be remembered as a turning point for government employee compensation. (more)

June 30 (Bloomberg) — More than half of U.S. workers were either unemployed or experienced reductions in hours or wages since the recession began in December 2007, according to a private report. (more)

Asian. White. Black. Hispanic. Do race and ethnicity matter when it comes to marriage? (more)

During his recent trip to Washington, D.C., Mexican President Felipe Calderon was the guest of honor in only the second State Dinner conducted by the Obama administration during its nearly eighteen months in office. While in Washington, Calderon also had the distinguished opportunity to address a joint session of the United States congress. While doing so, Calderon took advantage of this opportunity to lecture his hosts on what he deems to be the troubling nature of recently passed Arizona legislation designed to curb the proliferation of illegal immigrants in the state. (more)

By any objective standard, the administration has hit its political stride. The problem is that it has done so a year late. For very different reasons, Democrats and Republicans alike should be thinking: What if the administration’s first year had not been lost? (more)

Many empty promises have been made to the American people in the past year and half, starting with a promise for “Change in Washington.” Unfortunately, what they’ve seen happening for the past 15 months isn’t the change people were bargaining to see. (more)

Americans are learning that ObamaCare will pile on insurmountable debt and cause government to encroach on every area of our lives. ObamaCare is, as Yuval Levin said, an “unmitigated disaster—for our health care system, for our fiscal future, and for any notion of limited government.” And the more we learn about the specific provisions, the more we discover that the bill does not reflect our values—faith, family and freedom—nor does it strengthen those principles that are the foundation of a great nation. (more)

The burqa is many things to many people. (more)

The Washington Post’s resident liberal sourpuss wrote a column today. Did you read it? I did, then I called my analyst and requested some couch time. E.J. Dionne, you see, is driving me crazy: (more)

By almost every conceivable measure, Americans are less positive and more critical of their government these days. There is a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government—a dismal economy, an unhappy public, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials. (more)

Making the rounds this morning is a Pew Research Center poll in which “nearly 80 percent of Americans say they can’t ‘trust Washington’ and they have little faith that the massive federal bureaucracy can solve the nation’s ills.” The poll contained a smidgen of hope, however, for people who like to take other people’s money and wipe their butts with it. According to the AP, “the survey found that just 22 percent of those questioned say they can trust Washington almost always or most of the time and just 19 percent say they are basically content with it. Nearly half say the government negatively effects their daily lives, a sentiment that’s grown over the past dozen years.” Bill Clinton probably hasn’t seen this poll, or else why did he write that Biblical allegory for the New York Times opinion section comparing Tea Partiers to Timothy McVeigh/Satan? Holy crap, Bill, AMERICA HATES AMERICA NOW! (more)

It has been a rough two weeks for Republicans. First, health care reform passes. Then, the news that the RNC mistakenly reimbursed funds for dining at an adults-only venue. Next came the positive job numbers released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. (more)

When young voters helped lift Barack Obama to the presidency in November 2008, pundits pointed to the “wave” of Millennials that showed up to the polls as proof of a permanent sea change in politics. It was the dawn of Generation O and, for Republicans, the beginning of a potentially long, unpleasant period of wandering in the woods. (more)

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Just like red wine and classical music, blogging attracts a more mature audience, while the younger set prefers to share their lives via social networks. (more)

Back in late 2008, as part of my research for my documentary film “Media Malpractice” at great personal expense I commissioned two highly scientific polls of the electorate to determine how the dreadful media coverage of the campaign impacted what voters knew (or thought they knew) about the candidates. (more)