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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 21% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating for the president in 2011. Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. That’s the lowest total approval for the president in five months. Fifty-six percent (56%) at least somewhat disapprove.

Democratic Party filmmaker Michael Moore is warning that the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is trying to deny him an Oscar for his celebrated schlockumentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," complaining that "top Republicans" are trying to intimidate the Academy Awards with threats of a Hollywood boycott. "A group of top Republicans took out a full page ad in USA Today (and placed a similar one in the Hollywood trade magazine, Variety)," Moore noted last week in a message posted to his Web site. "The point of the ad was to say that while they, as right wing conservatives, were proud of getting rid of...

<p>PARIS (AP)--The motto of the moment in sizzling Paris could be, modesty be damned.</p> <p>Struggling through a Sahara-like heat wave without the luxury of air conditioning, Parisians are throwing open their windows, giving an intimate glimpse into each other's lives. Some sleep on cool tiled floors, in wet T-shirts, or walk around in underwear or less, in view of neighbors across narrow streets.</p>