NOT LOOKING GOOD


Note that the 'strong approval' trend is negative. At the moment the 'strong approvals' are moving to the 'mixed reaction' category while 'strong disapproval' is showing a slow but steady increase. The Rasmussen Index is here.

HEH: Obama Should Invoke Executive Privilege On His Economic Agenda.

THE MONEY MACHINE seems to be breaking down. Except on campus.

CALIFORNIA'S bullet train to nowhere is dead.

DON'T MESS WITH little old ladies who habitually carry sharp pointy things.

UPDATE: Knitters win. That was fast; little old ladies are a force to be reckoned with.

JAPAN to restart its nuclear reactors.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, in a few hundred thousand years, North America could become the next Saudi Arabia of fossil fuels.

ARE THEY CALLED 'GREEN' JOBS because they cost so much money?

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING EMPEROR.

BLOOMBERG POLL: Obama leads Romney 53 to… 40? Obviously they only polled Democrats....

THE PEOPLE have gotten dumber -- just because they won't follow idiots over the cliff.

TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS: the 'skills' gap.

THE POLITICAL FIGHT on health care is over. Republicans won. To borrow a phrase from the RatherGate era: 'snide but accurate'.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Are the Democrats doomed? Only if they insist on remaining true to their "progressive" colleagues.

THE BENEFIT of Bloomberg's big beverage ban may be the beginning of the dismantling of the Nanny State.

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION passing over major U.S. population centers for the next week or so. Here's a website that will tell you where and when to look.

OBVIOUSLY THIS IS HATE SPEECH:

In church last Sunday, this little old lady in the pew next to me was silently saying a private prayer. I saw her lips moving and I thought it was so unique that I just had to ask her who she was praying for. What she said was so sweet and sincere that I just had to share it with you:

Dear Father, These past couple of years have been tough... You have taken my favorite actor Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress Elizabeth Taylor, my favorite cowboy James Arness, my favorite athlete Bob Feller, my favorite singer Whitney Houston and my favorite salesman Billy Mays. I just wanted you to know that my favorite president is Barack Obama.

In Jesus' name. Amen.

From my email. Don't tell the Democrats.

THOMAS SOWELL: Random thoughts on the passing scene.

For a long time, Democrats have gone to Washington to win at all costs, while too many Republicans went to Washington to compromise with Democrats. The rise of the Tea Party may change that.

Read the rest.

"IF THE PRESIDENT can rewrite federal laws that he doesn’t like, there is no limit to his power. Then, he will not be a president - he will be a king."

The world in catching on. I first wrote about His Royal Kingship in 2011 and many times since.

AT LEAST HE'S CONSISTENT: Obama Runs His Campaign Like He Runs the Country … In the Red.