Unca Darrell

SEPTEMBER 30 / Two quickies

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ALL THAT TALK about the failing Obama presidency is a real hoot. The implication is that the failing is something new. That Mr. Obama was doing just fine, thank you very much, for five years, then started slip, slip, sliding away. The truth is . . .

SEPTEMBER 25 / GOP back on top, 51-49 . . .

. . . in race for control of U.S. Senate.

That's what Real Clear Politics, rightly understood, says in "Senate No Toss Ups." The previously reported balance was 50-50, rightly understood. What changed is that . . . 

SEPTEMBER 24 / But I thought it was a workers' paradise

THE LIFE expectancy of East Germans has risen sharply since their state was reunified with the more prosperous West in 1990, a new study shows.

Reunification added . . .

SEPTEMBER 23 / Ideological blindness + simple . . .

. . . incompetence explains most of what you need to know about . . .

SEPTEMBER 22 / Rightly understood, post-election control . . .

. . . of the U.S. Senate still stands 50-50 at Real Clear Politics.

Fifty states are either safe, likely, or leaning Republican. And forty-nine states are lined up for Democrats, plus one "Independent" (in Kansas) who will vote with Democrats. A tie would leave Democrats in control, thanks to Unca Joe Biden, bane of Shylocks, friend of Orientals.  

Below the surface, however, are local contests worth attention. One is . . . 

SEPTEMBER 20 / Peggy Noonan is too kind . . .

. . . to Barack Hussein Obama.

Today's column nails one of Mr. Obama's shortcomings: 

 His essential problem is . . .

SEPTEMBER 19 / Krauthammer on jihadist logic

THERE ARE two possible explanations. One is that these terrorists are more depraved and less savvy than we think. . . .

The second theory is that . . .

SEPTEMBER 19 / Who suffers the greater harm?

A BLACK CHILD who is spanked by his father or . . .

SEPTEMBER 18 / The Economist on how Barack Hussein Obama . . .

. . . made a bad international situation worse:

SEPTEMBER 17 / Real Clear Politics has the U.S. Senate scored . . .

. . . 50-50 (with an asterisk), which means the nation's leading intellectual, moral paragon, and public speaker, Vice President Joe Biden, would cast tie-breaking votes and keep Democrats in control.

Here's the asterisk: . . .