From Michelle Malkin: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama job-killing machine get kicked in the ass one more time. They wanted federal judge Martin Feldman to dismiss the drillers’ lawsuit challenging their original moratorium. No dice. Via Reuters: A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit [...]

From CNSNews.com: While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian [...]

From CNSNews.com: For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama’s average weekly “disapproval” rating has hit 50 percent, according to the Gallup Poll. Each week, Gallup interviews about 3,500 American adults, asking them whether they approve or disapprove of the job President Obama is doing. On a daily basis, the polling firm publishes a [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Bill Burton, a White House spokesman said the First Family were “having a great time”, enjoying playing games and reading as Martha’s Vineyard was hit by wind and rain. “I’ve heard reports of Taboo and Scrabble being played. And this will probably get me fired, but I know that Valerie did not do [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that his former boss was “not concerned with his re-election”, there was predictable scepticism. After all, it has long been a truism that every politician wants to cling to power and a reality that presidential campaigns are planned years in advance. Pronouncements [...]

From National Review: There is a chart currently making the rounds that shows President Reagan’s approval ratings during his first two years in office overlaid upon President Obama’s. The trend lines nearly overlap. Liberal commentators are using the chart to argue that Obama’s unpopularity is almost entirely attributable to the weak economy and thus comparable [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: President Barack Obama will be accompanied by his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, and are expected to stay at the historic Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark. Bill Burton, the deputy White House press secretary, said that the US president was “going to spend a little time recharging his batteries” [...]

From Newsmax.com: The percentage of Americans disapproving of how President Obama does his job hit an all-time high Monday, with half of all voters surveyed by the Gallup poll saying they disapprove. The 50 percent mark was a jump from previous polls, which had showed Obama leveling off in the high 40s, according to Gallup’s [...]

From CNSNews.com: Independents who embraced President Barack Obama’s call for change in 2008 are ready for a shift again, and that’s worrisome news for Democrats. Only 32 percent of those citing no allegiance to either major party say they want Democrats to keep control of Congress in this November’s elections, according to combined results of [...]

From RenewAmerica.com: On November 18, 1978, the world was shocked to learn that more than 900 members of the People’s Temple had committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. They took their lives at the urging of Jim Jones, the Temple’s founder. Until 9/11, it was the single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Next week, for the fifth time since July, the first family will board Air Force One for yet another luxury vacation, this time to an exclusive Martha’s Vineyard estate that rents for up to $50,000 a week. But before they head north, the Obamas will first grace Panama City, Fla., with their [...]

From CNSNews.com: In every week of his presidency until now, Barack Obama has enjoyed a majority approval rating in the Gallup Poll from people earning less than $2,000 per month. But that changed in the Gallup survey conducted from Aug. 2-8, when only 49 percent of Americans in that income bracket said they approve of [...]

From Townhall.com: Obama turned 49 last Wednesday, August 4. With his family vacationing apart from him, Obama flew home on that Wednesday to celebrate with friends. On Saturday, he went golfing with eight other friends in D.C. On Sunday, he will host a party at the White House, just to get in that last drop of [...]

From 73wire.com: I’m sure that by now, most of you have heard about First Lady Michelle Obama’s extravagant Spanish vacation. The story that was on the front page of The Drudge Report for days reported that Mrs. Obama’s trip would cost the tax payers around $75,000 per day (during a recession no less)–not to mention, it had [...]

From NewsMax.com: Risking personal prestige and political capital, President Barack Obama took a high-profile plunge Thursday into the race for his former Senate seat, on behalf of a candidate who could embarrass Democrats — and the president himself — if he loses. Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias trails Republican Rep. Mark Kirk in the race [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: This Tuesday voters in Missouri, by a 40-point margin, approved a ballot measure rejecting the individual mandate at the core of President Barack Obama’s health care law. Asked what the vote meant to the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs said: “Nothing.” Yesterday in San Francisco, federal judge Vaughn Walker gave the exact [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, seeking to rally support for embattled Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, on Wednesday pledged his support for a card check bill, which would eliminate secret ballots in elections to unionize workplaces. Obama told the AFL-CIO Executive Council that his administration has taken many measures to help union workers and [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The president is understood to have told senior Democrats during a private meeting at the White House that they “may not want me” to campaign in their areas during the next three months. For the past two elections, he has been the Democrat’s main asset with other candidates desperate for him to campaign [...]

From CNSNews.com: The Obama administration is phasing out a program that allows underprivileged children to get scholarships to expensive private schools in Washington, D.C., such as Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend, where tuition runs about $31,000 a year. Nevertheless, Obama on Thursday spoke about his “obligation to lift up every child” to [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s weak leadership on the Afghanistan war, Guantanamo, and the Gulf oil spill has Democrats backing away from him in droves, political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax.TV. “Obama is down to a new low of 43 percent job approval,” Morris says, citing a recent Rasmussen Reports poll. “It’s Democrats he’s losing. [...]