Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49%

Highest since he was elected.  Only 1% no opinion.

Satisfying in its way, but she would have preferred to scratch his eyes out.

via Chicago Tribune

Eat less, walk more, meds or not. (Tip from Doctor Jim)

via  UPI.com

. . . in Belgian (Western) law and practice. Which sounds like a good idea.

Immigrant imams, welcome to Belgium. Very interesting.

Wrapped up in himself, he is.

My thoughts completely. Like a bad documentary.

Clunker that clumps along. We know all that gruesome, disgusting Mafia stuff. Hollow men garroting each other . . .

No thanks. (Unless the second half got interesting. I did not care to look.)

via Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: . . .  Hollywood Reporter

Did he or didn’t he? Same for her. Maybe.

President Trump, in our opinion, made a mistake at the State of the Union speech if his failure to shake Speaker Pelosi’s hand was intended as a snub. She made a mistake, in our view, if she intended an insult by tearing her copy of his speech at the end of Congress’ joint session. Both gestures put a slight damper on what was otherwise a rousing evening calculated to point our country toward November.

Opportunity lost. But intentions?

We use the word “if” above because, having watched the clip a dozen times, we can’t gain a clear view of whether Mr. Trump intended to snub the Speaker at the start of the speech. He had plenty of cause to, we’ll grant. Mrs. Pelosi has been calling him a criminal. She handed up against him charges of which the Senate is likely to acquit him. If he resents the Speaker, it would be reasonable enough.

Etc. A wonderful he-said-she-said situation, a mystery for the ages. (One CBS announcer said one thing, another “interjected” pronto to say another. Hmm.)

There’s your break-through rapprochement achieved by Pope Francis’ brilliant diplomats.

via  UCA News

To whom else would one reveal such an experience?

via Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe | The New Yorker

Giving a lesson on how to talk to voters, per Bill McGurn:

We don’t have to guess much of what the president will say. Though the Beltway cognoscenti look down on his popular rallies as vulgar sideshows, they offer a lesson in talking to supporters without talking down to them.

And it should come as no surprise that the president has used his recent rallies to hone his message on his economic accomplishments: a booming stock market, new trade deals, historically low African-American unemployment, a “blue-collar boom” in which the lowest-paid earners are reaping the fastest gains, and so on.

And the beat goes on . . .