From the Boston Herald: The honeymoon is over, a national poll will signal tomorrow as President Obama’s job approval stumbles to about 50 percent over the lack of improvement with the crippled economy. The sobering numbers come as the president backpedals from two prime-time gaffes – one comparing his bowling score to a Special Olympian and another awkwardly laughing about the economy, which prompted Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” to

I was going to post on Stephen Hicks’s critique of postmodernism — doing so seems apropos, given how language and its importance is finally gaining traction in conservative circles — but Dan has already done so, which saves me the trouble of having to go too into depth. Still, be sure to read Hicks and David Thompson on the intersection of postmodernism’s ideas of language and their role in political

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Just in time for the Ward Churchill Support Rallies, here’s what passes for “intellectual” support for an academic suing to get his job back — the result of which, should his suit prove successful, would be that students or faculty engaging in plagiarism can always point to the Churchill precedent as dispositive should disciplinary action be taken against them. Ben Whitmer: I’ve spent four years defending Ward Churchill in every

–Which is all the more reason we DEMAND PIE!

Obama seems to think so. From the CS Monitor: Maybe Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and President Obama have more in common than they think. At least there are similarities when they discuss AIG. Just two days ago Grassley told an Iowa radio station that AIG executives should consider suicide as an option. He later clarified that his remarks were just rhetorical and they should live. Good enough. But today, President

JournoList is keeping an eye on your behavior. I wonder, are they putting together a dossier on those sites that, you know, traffic in hate? Because that might come in useful to some, especially in a climate wherein the Fairness Doctrine is ascendant. Remember: free speech means tolerance, and tolerance now means not giving offense. Which, following that logic, means that we can only have truly free speech in a

“House adopts plan for ‘volunteer’ corps: Also requires new evaluation of ‘mandatory’ service for all”. From WND, via Weasel Zippers: The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed. The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the

So. Like, I wonder what his intent was? Anybody? Professor Dyson? * **** update Throwing a wildly off-target haymaker what appears to be our way, Patterico writes: So how do you categorize Obama’s statement? Poor judgment? Thoughtlessness? Or TELLING IT LIKE IT IS?!?! To which I say, how the hell can anyone know before he or she has answered a blog poll, or adequately responded to the litany of carefully-crafted,