WHERE DO laid-off journalists go?

RENAMING KNOXVILLE “Glennville.” I’m flattered, but really . . ..

RANGEL UPDATE: TARP Inspector General Asked to Investigate Citigroup-Funded Caribbean Junket by Members of Congress .

SKEPTICISM GROWS over viability of “green” projects.

NEW YORKERS ARE SUDDENLY APPRECIATING those Wall Street “leeches.” Now that they’re not spending all that money in New York . . . .

ROGER KIMBALL: Maybe you should listen to Rush Limbaugh after all.

DROPPING OUT OF FIRST PLACE: Knoxville displaced as nation’s ‘asthma capital’. I can live with that.

IN THE MAIL: Garner on Language and Writing.

CHRIS DODD, meet Eddie Perez. If I worked in the Public Integrity section at Justice, though, I’d be disappointed that people think Dodd’s safe from prosecution just because there’s a Democratic President.

AZIZ POONAWALLA: Obama’s Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and East Timor genocide. “If Obama, who has lived in Indonesia (a fact he trumpets), is unaware of the history of the genocide in East Timor, then that’s quite an embarrassment, but it can be fixed, starting with replacing Blair as nominee for top spy. If he knows and nominated Blair anyway, then there’s a deeper problem that isn’t so easily fixed.”

Here’s an earlier post from Gary Farber.

LAWRENCE LINDSEY: How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus? “For a similar amount of money, we could give workers $1,500.”

FABIUS MAXIMUS: All bow down to our Versailles-on-the-Potomac!

GRILLING FUN: “Inside was a cast-iron grill topper that lets fans sear their favorite college team’s logo right onto their grilled meat.” If only I could get one with the InstaPundit logo . . . .

“STIMULUS,” DEBT, and inflation.

IT’S A VIDEO GLENN AND HELEN SHOW, and we talk to Tennessee Gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam about budgets, pensions, TennCare, and why Republicans are doing so much better in Tennessee than elsewhere. Plus we ask him some SayUncle-inspired questions about gun rights.

Go straight to the Flash version by clicking here.

UPDATE: Reader James Walker writes:

Thank you for doing the podcasts / interviews with political candidates. There is a real need for this type of journalism. Instead of being fed what the MSM edits from interviews ( a la the edited Palin interviews) we can get the whole, real, thing.

Well, that’s the idea. If you like it, please consider subscribing to PJTV. There are no ads, so PJTV depends on subscriptions to keep going.

BOB KRUMM: It’s all a Ponzi scheme. But we’re not all “awash in debt,” at least not debt of our own making. At our house, we’ve lived within our means and saved instead of borrowed. The likely result? We’re suckers who’ll be taxed to bail out people who borrowed instead of saved.

SARAH PALIN in the eye of the beholder.

LEGISLATING A NEW “RANGEL RULE:”

All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.

Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.

Heh. Sign me up!

THE SWING STATE PROJECT SAYS THAT the Connecticut Senate race is one to watch: “Chris Dodd’s favorability ratings in his home state have suffered ever since his very unsuccessful presidential run, an undertaking he was never quite able to explain to his constituents – or Iowa caucus-goers, for that matter. Allegations that he got favorable “VIP” loan terms from lender Countrywide haven’t helped. What makes this a Race to Watch is the fact that three reasonably strong Republicans could all potentially give it a gander: Gov. Jodi Rell and former Congressmen Rob Simmons and Chris Shays. But Dodd is a powerful fundraiser in a blue state, and no one has stepped up to the plate yet.”

THAT PAPER criticizing Sunstein.

INDEED:

One thing that’s clear from the recent Gaza conflict is that to many leftists, “violations of international law” is simply shorthand for “a country is engaging in military action that I don’t approve of.”

Well, they finally wore out “fascist” in that role . . . .

THIRTY YEARS AGO, Chevy Chase could have had fun with this. But he wouldn’t have.

IN CITY JOURNAL, a review of Roger Simon’s Blacklisting Myself.

A LOOK AT Who will be paying for the stimulus.