Barack Obama: “…it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America’s $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration’s approach to saving the financial system from collapse.

US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod are among the guests on today’s menu.

How To Play Baseball starring Goofy.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Thomas Lifson, the Editor and Publisher of The American Thinker magazine, may say cretinous things, but he is not a cretin. Just ask him. Try not to use English, though; he has trouble with it. French, too, for that matter. Perhaps you ought just pelt him with garbage.

Remember Tim DeChristopher? He’s the University of Utah student who last December gave us all an early Christmas present when he wrapped up 22,000 acres of our Federal land, thus protecting it from Bushie auction to Big Carbon. Tim showed up at Bush’s “last great gift to oil and gas”, the Bureau of Land Management’s giveaway auction in Utah, where he entered the high bid on almost one-sixth of the public land at risk.

So, the smart-alicky tan kid from Ohio thought that after six weeks of being forced to work on things like, you know, the recovery package and the budget, he needed to lighten things up. . . or god knows what would happen. . . people might actually use stimulus money to, well, stimulate things.

David Brooks has found the middle ground: Pay up and let the markets sort it out; that’s what they’re “good” at.

The U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy of barring gay, lesbian and bisexual servicemembers from serving openly in the armed forces may seem like a mid-1990’s anachronism that is now woefully out of date, but for many gay troops it is all too real. Just ask the 11 servicemembers who were involuntarily discharged in January, the same month Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.

Female members of Congress are banding together to shine light on women’s issues in Afghanistan: Given what they perceive to be momentum for the cause, several lawmakers say they are ready to place social and economic developmental issues front and center in the debate on Afghanistan’s future.