Dr. Paul Kengor: "The room fell silent. Obama had hoisted the Holy Grail."

Wow. Read the whole thing here. Rush Limbaugh is right when he calls abortion the sacrament of the Democratic Party.

Obama Losing the All-powerful Independents

Oh, well... My opinion: if he decides to take a page from the first black president, he may win re-election. Excerpts:

Obama's approval rating in April 12-14 polling is down most among independents when compared with his 2011 average to date as well as his term average among this group. Currently, 35% of independents approve of the president, nine points off his average from independents this year. Democrats' current ratings are also below what he has averaged thus far in 2011 (down four points), while Republicans' are the same.
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President Obama is now as unpopular as he has been at any time since he became president. He faces difficult challenges ahead in trying to improve the economy and get the federal budget deficit under control, and must do so with Republicans in control of the House. His ability to navigate these challenges will help determine whether he will be elected to a second term as president. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton all were similarly unpopular at this stage of their presidencies, but the last two were able to turn things around in time to win a second term in office.

Steeleye Span: "Rogues in a nation"

Diane told me she liked this once. It is awesome.

Thus Sprach Zarathustra

This is creative destruction at its absolute best. Check out the comments to the video, they're very funny, especially when some obviously unamused folks start warning about all the toxic substances in old TV sets and receive sarcastic and dismissive remarks from the producer of the video.

Oh yeah, Baby

I'm a wolf child, girl
Howlin' for you
Wild flower
Star of my dreams
The most beautiful thing....



Poetry.

Rod Dreher is on Twitter

A lot of "Where's Rod Dreher?" posts have appeared on the internets in the last year ever since he went blogless. Here are a few examples. But the man has been on Twitter since Feb 24 and although he doesn't tweet every day, he has tweeted an average of seven times a week so far.

Of course I was immediately impressed with his profile picture which speaks a thousand words, as all pictures do. I think some of those words are "There's nothing like your favorite wine to take the edge off a bad hair day." Or something like that.




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