A new Gallup poll shows President Obama's job approval rate dropping at a rate not seen in decades, while a Rasmussen poll shows even worse news for the President as a whopping 40 percent now strongly disapprove of his job performance.

In an effort to tap into populist anger against the Wall Street big shots he bailed out earlier this year, the President has ordered (not directly, of course, wink wink, nudge nudge) big pay cuts for those big shots whose companies have not paid back the money. Nice try, fellas, but you already screwed the pooch politically when you used huge amounts of taxpayer money to bail these guys out. The only way to get out of this mess is if the public begins to believe those bailouts worked to get the economy booming again, and they won't believe that until they start seeing the jobs come back. Even giving all the old folks $250 won't change that.

It also doesn't help the President that the American people are more concerned about the growing Federal debt, and in a more bipartisan way, than they have been for years.

Kristof says more troops is not the answer while Boot says it is when it comes to winning the war in Afghanistan. Both make good points.

An anthropologist says that modern man is a wimp compared to his ancestors.

Michael Ledeen has been making the case for years, and he is still trying to convince us that the Iranian government has been at war with us for years. I believe him, and I wish we were doing more to help the Iranian people get rid of their brutal regime.