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President Obama hit his strongest disapproval rating and lowest index of job approval in today's Rasmussen polling.

First of all, my apologies for being late. I had to take my grandson to his school for a program. He is in First grade and the program was called "WE LOVE OUR VETERANS" The children sang Patriotic songs. After the program was over I had to to pick up his dad from work and then I had to run to the drug store to pick up some bandages. This morning President Bush had his picture taken with the White House staffers on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House Republican Presidential candidate John...

Henryk Mandelbaum, a member of the Sonderkommando -- Jewish prisoners who were forced to empty the gas chambers at Auschwitz after fellow Jews were gassed and burned -- died Tuesday. He was 85. Mandelbaum died at a hospital in the southern Polish city of Bytom several days after undergoing heart surgery, said Igor Bartosik, a historian at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum who has co-written an upcoming book on Mandelbaum. Bartosik said he did not know the exact cause of death, and hospital officials refused to comment. Mandelbaum was Poland's last surviving member of the Sonderkommando, in which he was forced by...