PJTV: I talk with RedState’s Erick Erickson.

PHOTO FROM HANOI: “This is too easy.”

UH OH: Trouble for Charlie Crist?

GENE HEALY: Time for “Question Time?”

HOW GOLDMAN SACHS helped Greece mask its true debt. This is interesting in itself, but it makes me wonder how much similar chicanery is out there undiscovered . . . .

UPDATE: Related: Why Sovereign Debt Pain Has Only Just Started.

AND NOW FOR THE REALLY IMPORTANT NEWS: Brooklyn Decker gets Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover.

BLUE ON BLUE: Ben Nelson To Filibuster Becker for NLRB.

TRANSPARENCY: Financial Crisis Commission Grills Top Bankers Behind Closed Doors.

SOME NEW LENSES from Nikon.

HEH: Bush was right, says Obama.

HEY, WAIT A MINUTE: Surveillance Society: Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights. They told me if I voted for McCain we’d live an Orwellian nightmare of surveillance and repression — and they were right!

RAND SIMBERG responds to astronaut Tom Jones. “While my admiration and gratitude to Tom Jones for his service to our nation, both on the planet and off, is unbounded, I believe he is wrong in his description of the new space policy as a ‘path to nowhere.’ In so characterizing it, he falls prey to the same mental traps as many of us have for the past forty years since Apollo, in which we don’t have a real manned space program unless we have something that looks like Apollo—a goal to send a few NASA astronauts to a specific place by a specific date on a really big rocket. Not to mention spending an eye-boggling amount of money on it. In this mind set, anything that doesn’t fit within that model is turning our back on the universe.”

MICHAEL LEDEEN: What Is Iran Planning For Thursday?

BUDGET FOLLIES: How do California and Greece compare?

PAM GELLER on Joy Behar.

PIONEERING BLOG SITE “NASHVILLE IS TALKING” shuts down Friday.

BEWARE STATISTICIANS bearing advice. Well, unless they’re named Michael Barone, anyway.

RADLEY BALKO: Calculating The Number Of Innocents In Prison.

A MEDICAL UPDATE from Jim Treacher. Plus this: “Have you seen the website for the U.S. Department of State? It’s lovely.” I can’t find the part that says “We apologize for running over Jim Treacher,” though.

PARTY TIME! Bill Whittle on the Tea Parties.

THE PRISM of condescension.

POLL: Special Interests More Influential Under Obama.

TIM CAVANAUGH looks at failed promises of government job-creation. “I’m glad nobody believes the Democrats have created any jobs. I’d be happier if both ruling parties acknowledged that job creation is not part of their purview and is not within their power.”

UPDATE: Photo: Job created or saved! But shouldn’t he be breaking windows or something?

THE WAGES OF SOCIALISM: Chavez declares “electricity emergency” in Venezuela. “President Hugo Chavez inaugurated a folksy new radio talk-show on Monday by declaring an ‘electricity emergency’ in oil-rich Venezuela.”

NOT IF THE “DEATH PANELS” GET THEM FIRST! Will Baby Boomers Bankrupt Social Security?