HMM: Greece Announces Huge Budget Cuts As It Awaits EU ‘Solidarity’ On Debt Crisis.

MARK HEMINGWAY: Congressmen still mum on Rangel’s ‘Dirty Money’.

GUNS, “REASONABLE REGULATION,” and the McDonald argument.

VIDEO: Palin on Leno. Note the lines that get applause. But my favorite was “I hear this is open from time to time. . . .”

More here.

DAN RIEHL: Dylan Ratigan slanders Tea Party movement. One of his producers called to ask me to be on his show last week but I declined, in part because I’d never heard of him. (I also don’t like it when people I don’t know call my cellphone, though to be fair, he probably got the number out of the computer from when I used to work for MSNBC). Seems like I didn’t miss much. More here.

UPDATE: Reader George Poletes writes:

In an MSNBC TV spot that ran during the Winter Olympics, Mr. Ratigan claimed that he wore a t-shirt that read “Question Authority,” a mantra that he claims informs his work as a journalist. Yet, with his harsh attacks against the Tea Party Movement, Mr. Ratigan zealously attacks the what has now become the nation’s foremost movement in questioning government authority. This Lincoln Steffens wannabe is nothing more than a ham and a phony.

Apparatchiks who pretend to be revolutionaries — that’s an awful lot of the press these days.

PATTERICO: Debunking Some Emerging ACORN Liberal Myths.

PJTV: Lord Monckton v. Al Gore: Doubling Down On Global Warming.

THE MICKEY KAUS SENATE JUGGERNAUT continues to pick up steam!

CHANGE: Mail only 5 days a week?

HOPE AS A METHOD: Obama On Defense.

CAP-AND-TRADE IS DEAD: Long live cap-and-trade?

SMART DIPLOMACY: “This is painful reading.”

THE GREAT HATE HYPE: Are Libertarians Dangerous? Yeah. They want to not boss you around! Tremble in fear!!!!!

AT AMAZON, deals on electronics.

TEXAS PRIMARY: Hutchison concedes, Perry takes it.

WHO WILL RESIGN FIRST? Paterson? Or Rangel? After they defenestrated Harold Ford Jr., you’ve got to wonder if there’s a place for black men in New York politics anymore. Welcome to postracial America!

RUBEN NAVARETTE: Will Obama Still Be Blaming Bush in 2012? Bet on It.

COFFEE PARTY UPDATE: Dan Riehl: Annabel Park From Netroots Nation to Coffee Parties?

THE USAF’S UAV FUTURE.

FIRST HAROLD FORD, NOW THIS: Rangel to step down.

BUSH LEAGUE ASTROTURF: Regarding my “Coffee Party” / Annabel Park post, reader Jennifer Pace emails:

The LInkedin link for Annabel Park (the one showing her as a Strategy Analyst for the NYT) has gone down the memory hole.

Any chance someone grabbed a screen shot of the page before it vanished?

Why, yes, I did. This came out of my browser cache:

MORE: Reader Bill Sheldon notes that, at the moment, Yahoo! still has her LinkedIn page cached.

POLIWOOD: The Blind Side vs. Last Tango In Paris. And a special appearance by Cyborg Al Gore. Plus, Roger Simon on values in the movies.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST? How long have you got? “If the ship is sinking, do you save yourself or risk your life to save others? The answer, it seems, depends on how long the sinking takes. If there’s enough time, you can switch from adrenalin-driven self-preservation to conscience-driven self-sacrifice.”

SUSANNAH BRESLIN: How To Write About The Adult Movie Industry.

REGULAR PAINKILLER USE increases the risk of hearing loss in men.