Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists' Dinner  —  When President Obama made his debut as the nation's Stand-Up-in-Chief last night, the star attraction at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, no one in his administration was safe from his one-liners.

Video: “Currahee”  —  Via This Ain't Hell, here's the best thing you'll see today.  We already knew from the surge that Petraeus was a miracle worker — but evidently we didn't know the extent of it.  Forward this to a vet you love.  —  Watch CBS Videos Online

Marci Klein, SNL Producer, On Sarah Palin's Handshake, Writing Hillary Clinton Sketches, Discovering Will Ferrell & More (VIDEO)  —  Marci Klein, senior producer of “Saturday Night Live” and executive producer of “30 Rock,” recently sat down with host Julie Menin for her NBC New York show “Give and Take.”

Obama to Propose More Taxes From Estates, Firms to Fund Health Care Reform  —  The measures total $60 million, but administration officials describe the plan as eliminating ‘tax loopholes’ rather than hiking taxes  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will propose $60 billion …

Germany says US data on Guantanamo inmates insufficient  —  In a newspaper interview published on Sunday, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble complained that Washington had not yet provided sufficient information for Germany to act on resettling Guantanamo detaineees.

“All of you voted for me”  —  President Obama began with a kind of awkward TelePrompter gag — and then hit one out with a joke that cut a little too close to the bone for many conservatives.  —  Looking out on the crowd of 3,000, Obama declared:  —  “Most of you covered me (pause)... All of you voted for me.”

Obama Bans the Commonfolk from Normandy  —  A lot of the difference, the change if you will, between Obama and Bush has much to do with the word humility.  —  George Bush is and was a humble man.  Obama thinks the world counts on him and him alone to lead us.  Bush went to church and prayed often.

Tariffs Are Bad, Mkay?  —  Matt Steinglass breaks with some of his fellow liberals:  —  There are few areas where I agree with the CATO Institute crowd, but this is definitely one of them: long-term tariffs on manufactured goods are really, really stupid.  Germany and Japan …

New York Charges Rent for Working Homeless  —  The Bloomberg administration has quietly begun charging rent to homeless families who live in publicly run shelters but have income from jobs.  —  The new policy is based on a 1997 state law that was not enforced until last week …

Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’  —  (CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”

They're Baaack. . . .  Recently, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration would likely bring back the controversial military commissions in order to prosecute terrorism suspects.  —  During the Bush administration, the commissions generated a lot heat among civil libertarians in the United States and abroad.