JOHN TIERNEY: Salt Good or Bad? Nobody Knows Yet.

CNN POLL: Three-fourths think federal officials not honest.

PORKBUSTING: Dana Loesch talks with Tom Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste.

AMY BISHOP UPDATE: Delahunt Goes the Full Sgt. Schultz.

BRIAN DOHERTY: Guns: Not Just For The Home Anymore. “If the right to defend yourself against assault should be honored by the U.S. government, there is little reasonable justification for restricting that right to only the home. And there is no civilized right more basic than self-defense; indeed, to make such defense more efficient and wide-ranging is one of the only legitimate reasons for government at all, thus making localities’ attempts to bar its citizens from practicing the right effectively particularly pernicious.”

STREET ART IN HARLEM TAKING ON that warmongering war-criminal, Obama.

Related: But now they’re pro-war at DailyKos. Reader John-David Filing writes: “It seems amazing to me how many people are now in favor of everything going on in Afghanistan, including civilian casualties, now that Obama has taken ownership of that war.”

And wait, it gets better: China Syndrome star supports nuclear power now. Now that’s change I can believe in!

PROF. JACOBSON: “Obama’s Plan in two words: ‘Balloon Mortgage.'”

MICKEY KAUS: “Does Klein really believe this stuff? I don’t know which answer would be more embarrassing.”

PULLING A COUNTER-ALINSKY.

ROBERT SAMUELSON: Greece And The Welfare State In Ruins. “Almost every advanced country — the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Belgium and others — faces some combination of huge budget deficits, high debts, aging populations and political paralysis. It’s an unstable mix. Present deficits may aid economic recovery, but the persistence of those deficits threatens long-term prosperity. The same unpleasant choices confronting Greece await most wealthy nations, even if they pretend otherwise.”

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: New Climate Agency Head Tried to Suppress Data, Critics Charge.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: What, me worry? Credit Default Swaps On U.S. Treasuries. “So what are we to make of the fact that the price of credit default swaps on US Treasuries has been rising lately?”

TRAILER PARK: Online trailers for “The Last Airbender,” “Toy Story 3,” and “Chloe.”

CINCINNATI TEA PARTY UPDATE: Jennifer Clippard emails: “Hey Glenn, we have around 120 present tonight at our monthly community meeting. Local and state incumbents and new candidates, Mike Wilson-original founder of Cincinnati Tea Party were given opportunity to speak to the crowd. Going strong and building.”

WATCHING GLORIA ALLRED ON HANNITY, trying to make the argument in favor of her porn-actress client who had a 3-year affair with Tiger Woods. I thought she’d descended into total self-parody before, but I was wrong. She’s plumbing new depths now. Apparently, I’m not the only one who feels this way. And Greta Van Susteren to Gloria Allred: “Quit making excuses for the chicks.” That would end Allred’s career . . . .

THE PLEDGE OF NO: Advice for the Tea Party movement.

AUDIO: Mark Levin to Glenn Beck: “Stop Dividing Us.”

THE WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY, CONT’D: Photographer films his own ‘anti-terror’ arrest: Man held in police station for eight hours after taking pictures of Christmas celebrations in Accrington.

AN A.P. ANALYSIS: Outlook no brighter for Obama’s new health plan. “Realistically, he’s just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.”

UPDATE: “Obama is failing because he thinks we need to be herded not heard.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: New Plan Is Still A Government Takeover.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY ON the stimulus and public employees. Plus, what Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t understand.

PJTV: DANA LOESCH INTERVIEWS ANN COULTER. And Coulter agrees with Rahm Emanuel.

THE ANCHORESS IS GLAD SCOTT BROWN IS VOTING FOR THE WATERED-DOWN JOBS BILL, says it wrecks the “party of No” and “broken government” narratives at comparatively low cost.

A WORLD-HISTORIC archaeological find in Jerusalem.

JOHN FUND: Activists Keeping The GOP Honest.

JENNIFER RUBIN: The Holder Justice Department is a perfect reflection of the Obama White House. “There is a tendency in reporting and punditry, fostered by the Obama spin machine, to treat Eric Holder as an independent agent, and his Department’s ill-advised policy decisions as larks, discrete from and unrelated to the Obami’s agenda. But this is wrong. . . . These ideas were all part of Obama’s campaign rhetoric and his professed agenda from the earliest days of his administration. So rather than a rogue Justice Department, we have one that facilitates and enables the Obami’s worst instincts.”