*Presidential approval:  -21 and falling.

RELATED: 68% now oppose passing ObamaCare without Republican support.

*Obama and the L-Word: The President’s habit of telling untruths, by Matt Welch.

“Obama’s dishonesty, by contrast, seems to spring from a different place. As a man who has spent most of his career wowing people with his words and very little of it converting those words into deeds, he has an activist’s gap between rhetoric and reality and a radio broadcaster’s promiscuous carelessness with cutting rhetorical corners.”

*Today’s whip count on ObamaCare.  Still shy, thank God.

*Chief Justice Roberts gives Obama the rhetorical middle finger.

*Artificial Stupidity, by Thomas Sowell.

“People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators.”

*The Obama Budget: Spend, Entitle, Borrow, by James C. Capretta.

*What Happened to Obama’s Middle Path on Health Reform? By Michael Gerson.

*An American Obsession With Freedom, by Tony Blankley.

“The Obama administration and the Democrats crossed a line and touched a nerve in America’s body politic. We sense our fundamental freedom endangered. And the response will be as remorseless as was our revolution against the British.”

*Repeal ObamaCare? Unlikely. By David Harsanyi.

*Obama’s New Poverty Measurement, by Robert Rector.

“Another paradox of the new poverty measure is that countries such as Bangladesh and Albania will have lower poverty rates than the United States, even though the actual living conditions in those countries are extremely bad. Haiti would probably have a very low poverty rate when measured by the Obama system because the earthquake reduced much of the population to a uniform penniless squalor.”

*Where Feminists Get it Right, by Jonah Goldberg.

*O’Krugman’s Keynesian Blarney, at IBD.

*Weak Tea or Strong Tea? By Lee Harris.

“But too many of those currently involved in “analyzing” the Tea Party movement seem to have no genuine interest in grappling with its potential historical significance. They are content to ridicule and scoff at it. They are delighted to draw analogies between the Tea Partiers and various inconsequential fringe movements of the past, such as hippies or the New Left. But no approach could possibly be more counterproductive than a policy of conspicuous disdain. There is no surer way of convincing the Wal-Mart crowd that America really has fallen into the hands of arrogant elitists than to show contempt for working people like themselves. It is one thing to preach to the choir. It is another thing to spit at the congregation.”

I urge you to read the whole thing.