MAKING POVERTY PERMANENT.

SPRING FORWARD: Daylight Savings Time starts today.

ANOTHER “RUBE” SELF-IDENTIFIES: “We are shocked and stunned at the Administration’s tone and public dressing down of Israel,” Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman said in a statement.

UPDATE: Reader Anne Butzen writes:

Had to chuckle when I saw that quote from Mr. Foxman. I receive fundraising letters from the ADL now and then, and always marvel at his harangues – to read him, you’d think that Evangelical Christians were the greatest threat to world Jewry today. So this must have come as a terrible shock to him. If it actually causes him to wake up to the real world, though, then it may be a blessing in disguise.

I’d be surprised, but we’ll see.

“MY INVESTIGATION REVEALS THAT WE’RE KINDA UNPOPULAR:” The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is investigating more than 70 threatening jokes or inappropriate statements made to IRS agents about the Feb. 18 attack on an IRS building in Austin, Texas.

My feeling is that if the President can “joke” about illegal audits, then IRS folks should have to put up with “inappropriate” humor too.

IN SEARCH OF the perfect doughnut.

BOX OFFICE FLOP? Matt Damon’s ‘Green Zone’ Could Open to Less Than $15 Million. “The moral of the story? If you’re going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs.”

UPDATE: A real Green Zone film would look more like this report from Toby Harnden. How likely is that to be made . . . .

PHYLLIS CHESLER: Norway, Italy, Iran: The Islamist Takeover, The Push Back.

STEPHEN GREEN: The Week In Blogs.

DAN RIEHL: If You Prick Them, They Will Bleed. “Show up and be heard, or be herded. There are no other choices. This is the time.”

ILLINOIS: Thousands Of Gun Owners Hit State Capital’s Streets.

ANOTHER REPORT from the St. Paul “Kill The Bill” rally.

REGULATORS ARE FROM MARS, investors are from Venus?

GIVE CREDIT TO THE JAWA REPORT. I wrote about Army-of-Davids-style antiterrorism in, er, An Army of Davids. And it’s working.

BOINGBOING: Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking UK copyright. “He cites an expert on legislation as saying that the bill will likely die if MPs insist on their right and responsibility to examine this legislation in detail before voting on it.”

No sweat. Just do things the Pelosi Way and “deem” it passed without even voting! It’s the new approach to 21st Century Democracy!

KILL THE BILL: Thousands rally against ObamaCare in St. Paul. Some brought pitchforks.

INSTAVISION: I talk with pollster Scott Rasmussen about the Political Class, the consent of the governed, and his new book, In Search of Self Governance. (Bumped.) By the way, we talk about Rasmussen’s book a lot, and I highly recommend it. It’s short, clear, and very, very insightful.

DONALD SENSING: Government’s New Motto: It’s Good To Be King.

TOM BLUMER ON JOBS: Last week’s report was worse than it appeared; the latest health care wrinkle would damage things further.

GREECE: The Coming Greek Debt Bubble.

DAVE KOPEL: Is the “Slaughter Solution” Constitutional?

HEH: Looking at Marion Barry through Painkiller-Vision™.

GOOD GRIEF: Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Will Finally Allow Artists to Focus on Being Unemployed, Comfortably. Translation: They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

SO MUCH FOR NUKING ASTEROIDS: “Don Korycansky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Catherine Plesko of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico simulated blowing up asteroids 1 kilometre across. When the speed of dispersal was relatively low, it took only hours for the fragments to coalesce into a new rock.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns at the Automotive Outlet.

PJTV: Don’t Mess With Zo, Part 1: Taxation, Misrepresentation & Awaking the Sleeping Giant.