Perhaps the final straw for Hosni Mubarak came today when hundreds of business, medical and law professionals joined the youthful, anti-government dissenters in Tahrir Square and called for the ouster of the Egyptian president.

In any case, we're learning now that Mubarak will address his people within moments and lay out his still-uncertain plans.

Reports from Egypt have been sketchy -- some say the president will be transferring power to his hand-picked vice president, Omar Suleiman, other reports have Mubarak transferring power to the Egyptian Military, and still other reports have Mubarak remaining in power, but heading to Germany to receive treatment for "health problems" (one of which might be his ability to remain alive in Egypt if he remains in power). If Mubarak stays in power - or even if he transfers power to Suleiman -- those on the ground in the Arab Republic say the unrest will continue.

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One of my favorite Ronald Reagan stories is one I heard from my friend, Don Eberly. Although I could never tell it as well as he could, I'll do my best today in honor of the Gipper's 100th birthday. My apologies, Don.

Eberly was one of Reagan's White House aides, and as such, his job was to brief the president on visitors and introduce them to him as they arrived. Understandably, Reagan's time was extremely valuable, and therefore, Eberly would prepare the visitors for the few moments they had with him before the president would have to attend other business or meet with other visitors.

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Opponents of ObamaCare got another major victory Monday from a federal district judge in Florida who found that the mandate in the new law requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.

Despite the favorable ruling, however, federal District Judge Roger Vinson declined to block the ongoing implementation of the law while it works its way through the courts. The law isn't expected to be fully implemented until 2014.

Although nothing will change on the case in the short term, Vinson's ruling virtually guarantees the case will go before the U.S. Supreme Court for a verdict. Vinson is the fourth district judge in as many states to rule on the mandate and the second to strike it down. Perhaps the most important aspect of the ruling was Vinson's statement that the mandate isn't severable from the rest of the law. This means that if the Supreme Court were to strike it down using Vinson's argument, the entire law would have to be vacated.

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Tuesday night, President Barack Obama proved what my grandfather told me when I was 9-years-old.

"Justin," he said, "never judge a man on what he says at his weakest moment; judge him on what he does when he is at his most powerful."

In his second State of the Union address, President Barack Obama's demonstrated how weakened he has become since last year's midterm elections, when Republicans regained control of the House and made significant gains on the Democratic majority in the Senate. The differences between his speech Tuesday and the one he made last January stand in stark contrast to one another - to say the least.

In his first address, the president trumpeted an extremely liberal agenda and informed Republicans in clear and certain language that they were to go along with this new agenda or be crushed under the power of the new Democratic government. In his address to the nation Tuesday, by comparison, the president attempted to show Republicans he isn't the same guy who just finished ramming the most exhaustive liberal agenda in two generations through the federal government, but that he is actually a fun-loving center-left moderate who can appeal to everyone in equal measure. His speech was carefully worded as a herald of sorts to mark the launch of Obama 2.0, "The Return of the Great Uniter."

In juxtaposition, the two speeches give a fuller portrait of the president and provide insight into how he operates - partisan by rule, bipartisan by exception. It is therefore impossible to trust anything he says.

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