ON GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY, remembering the indispensable man. I highly recommend Richard Brookhiser’s Founding Father, by the way.

INSTAPUNDIT: Is there anything it can’t do? Glenn Reynolds Boosts My Retirement Portfolio. It’s the donut of the blogosphere!

PERHAPS THEY COULD INTERRUPT RALLIES WITH IRRITATING REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS:

@jimgeraghty: NPR asks, “Who’s raising the money for the Tea Party movement?” Because those handwritten signs look so darn expensive.

And offer you a coffee mug by mail in exchange.

“WE’RE NOT GOING AWAY:” A Tea Party Anniversary in Orlando.

THE COMPLEXITIES OF dating with coupons.

MEGAN MCARDLE GIVES ATLANTIC READERS the rest of the story.

BREITBART 1, ACORN 0: ACORN dissolving national structure due to “damage to the brand.”

RETRACTO GOES AFTER KEITH OLBERMANN.

ROBOT DRUM CIRCLE makes human hippies obsolete. Er, aren’t they obsolete anyway?

A READER SENDS A LINK TO this European Tea Party movement website. I don’t know much about it, but it seems to me that Europe is overdue . . . .

YUM: Bacon Meatloaf with Brown Sugar Ketchup Glaze.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE: ObamaCare 2.0 doesn’t have enough specifics to score.

KITCHENWARE: The importance of surgical tongs and blast chillers.

POLIWOOD GOES TO THE OLYMPICS.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, here’s a roundup of PJTV’s CPAC coverage.

TAXPROF: The Austin Pilot Had a Valid Tax Beef About § 1706.

Plus, Tim Cavanaugh notes that Joseph Stack is becoming a lefty folk hero:

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project hits the perfect storm of journalistic clichés by detecting a “perfect storm” of anti-government militias and “so-called Patriot groups.” Daily Kos claims (without evidence) links and ties to the tea party movement.

But a strange counterforce has been developing, visible in the comment boards on lefty websites and Facebook. The left’s creepy efforts to turn Stack into a club with which to hit advocates of lower taxes and smaller government keep getting met with responses, from other lefties, along these lines: “I read his manifesto, and you know, a lot of his points make sense.”

Heh.

TRAFFIC CAMERAS: An “election-year powderkeg?” Related item here.

HOW A NEW JOBLESS ERA will transform America.

SHOCKER: Bailout Anger Undermines Geithner.

REASON TV: Net Neutrality for Dummies.

MICHAEL YON POSTS another dispatch from Afghanistan. Remember, he’s supported by reader donations, so if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

VIDEO: Keith Olbermann Owes James O’Keefe A Correction.

TIME FOR SOME OF THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WE’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT: Dutch government collapse: Will other European troops now leave Afghanistan? “The collapse of the Dutch government this weekend, largely over keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan, threatens to undermine the NATO mission in the central Asian nation. And, it may signal tougher political climes ahead for other European leaders supporting a troop presence in Afghanistan.” You know, now would be a good time to show the stuff that was going to get NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, not fewer.

SEQUESTERING CARBON with diamond trees?

ANDREW KLAVAN: A Man Alone.