Monday morning reading *UPDATED* (AGAIN & AGAIN)

[Updated at 4:30 p.m. California time.]

I’m on the move this morning, but wanted to share a few things with you:

Hugh Hewitt, in a single seamless article, explains Obama’s falling poll numbers, his bad attitude, and the economic disaster awaiting us.

John Stephenson looks at the larger implications of the relentless attacks against the Pope and the Church.

Mark Hemingway explains why, maybe, just maybe, Obama is not like Nelson Mandela.

Do you remember last month when students took to the street demanding that beleaguered taxpayers fund more of their tuition?  Perhaps they should have been looking closer to home, at their own university administrators.

Living in the Bay Area as I do, the doctors are as liberal as everyone else and, therefore, as blind to economic realities as everyone else.  One doctor, however, understands perfectly the costs of ObamaCare.  I wish more Bay Area docs would understand how they’ve shot themselves in the foot (and managed to ensure that all of us fall down too.)

When will Joe Lieberman abandon the residuals of his tired old liberalism and become the conservative he was meant to be?

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you won’t see anything new in this post about Obama’s habitual lying.  However, Matt Welch says it a whole lot better than I do.

Gotta run.  I may update this post later today, so check back, or I may just add new stuff to the blog if the spirit moves me.  Also, feel free to treat this post as an Open Thread.

UPDATES:

Peter Wehner discusses how history will judge the terrible financial decisions Obama has made.

Also, please remember to check out the Radio Patriot, who is live-blogging the Tea Party Express.  Captain Ed, by the way, talks about who those Tea Partiers are.  Obama would be very surprised.  (Hint:  They’re not crazy or racist.)

Dr. Rusty Shackleford is appropriately up in arms at another manifestly dishonest attempt to impugn American troops.  Please read it so that if, in your travels through the real and cyber world, someone raises this libel with you, you have a defense prepared.  (Here’s Bill Roggio, who also noticed something very fishy.)

Check out a bunch of wonderful Obama-era bumper stickers — although, sadly, I haven’t seen any of them here in Marin.

General Petraeus reminds me of another American general who did not want to run, but felt that doing so was yet another item on his “serve country” checklist.  The safest people to have in office are, perhaps, the ones who least want to be there.

Ward Connerly on the poisonous racial game-playing that the Left uses to maintain its power and mow down its opponents.

Would this come as a surprise to anyone but a Leftist ideologue (“this” being the practice of savvy Massachusetts consumers who buy insurance only at the moment they need it and then drop it when the don’t).

In arguments with a couple of liberals about the health care bill (arguments I’ve reported in this blog), they’ve strenuously denied that it it’s even possible that consumers, when faced with a low fine on one side and insurance that you can buy only when you’re sick on the other side, will pay the fine and just buy coverage when they need it — which isn’t insurance at all, but is simply a way to force insurance companies to bear all risks.  Well, it’s not hypothetical.  Instead, that’s precisely what’s been happening in Massachusetts.

Andrew Klavan on the way Teacher’s Unions deliberately destroyed Jaime Escalante’s educational legancy.