FEELING UNSTIMULATED?  Watch this.  UPDATE: And check out this video on the stimulus from SNL...  FEELING UNSTIMULATED?  Watch this.  —  UPDATE: And check out this video on the stimulus from SNL.

Geithner postpones unveiling TARP plan  —  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will postpone until Tuesday his new plan to boost the financial system with the rest of the $700 billion bailout money, one of President Obama's top economic advisers said on Sunday.  —  Lawrence Summers …

Celebrity side dish: Ann Coulter under investigation  —  Iman wants the world to stand up to Somalian pirates.  The supermodel is pained that her homeland remains so lawless that kids there can't get AIDS drugs from Keep a Child Alive's “Mother Africa” campaign.

Sen. Ensign: It's ‘Fearmongering’ To Suggest That Any Teachers Would Lose Their Jobs  —  On Meet the Press this morning, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) slammed proposed cuts in aid to the states in the stimulus bill, explaining that states are slashing their funding for vital public needs.

WILL FERRELL'S BUSH LEAGUE SHOW  —  HE'LL DO ANYTHING FOR A LAUGH — EVEN INSULT DEAD TROOPS  —  Is it too much to ask for Hollywood's leading comic actor not to use the deaths of our troops in combat for a giggle?  Stay classy, Will Ferrell.  —  In his new (almost) one-man Broadway comedy …

Official: Sebelius near top for health post  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was near the top of President Barack Obama's list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said Saturday.

Steele Confuses Stephanopoulos: Claims Government Jobs “Aren't Jobs,” Private Sector Jobs Never Go Away  —  There is certainly a political debate to be waged over whether or not government spending can effectively create jobs.  But in his interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday …

Obama puts brake on Afghan surge  —  PRESIDENT Barack Obama has demanded that American defence chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.  —  There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.

Why the Muslim World Can't Hear Obama  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA is clearly trying to reach out to the Muslim world.  I watched his Inaugural Address on television, and was most struck by the line: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”

NOTABLE  —  A lot of readers see what Collins, Nelson, Specter et al. are doing in the worst light.  Nelson as a turncoat.  And Collins, Snowe and Specter diluting the Stimulus Bill to no good end.  On the policy merits, I completely agree.  As many others with greater grasps of the budgetary …

Senators pressure Pelosi on stimulus  —  Senators are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to embrace most of the stimulus bill they hope to pass early next week, claiming that adopting too many House provisions will doom the measure in the upper chamber.  —  After two years of showdowns …

The Dissenter Who Changed the War  —  As the No. 2 Commander in Iraq, Raymond Odierno Challenged the Military Establishment, Pressing for More Troops and a Long-Term Strategy to Guide Them  —  Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno was an unlikely dissident, with little in his past to suggest …

FLY ON THE WAL  —  UNDERCOVER AT WAL-MART, THE HEARTLAND SUPERSTORE THAT MAY SAVE THE ECONOMY  —  Some people, usually community activists, loath Wal-Mart.  Others, like the family of four struggling to make ends meet, are in love with the chain.  I, meanwhile, am in awe of it.

Ex-UNRWA official blasts agency for politicizing Palestinian refugee issue  —  A former top legal official with the United Nations relief agency charged with providing for Palestinian refugees - UNRWA - issued a report last week critical of some of the organization's practices …