FOR ANYONE WHO STILL WONDERS just what the Democrats are smoking, here’s the answer.

THOMAS SOWELL: ”What would probably get the economy recovering fastest and most completely would be for the President of the United States and Congressional leaders to shut up and stop meddling with the economy. But it is virtually impossible that they will do that.”

As usual, read it all.

THE TRUTH HURTS: ‘Turn off Fox News’ in public places.

OBAMA SAYS GOP hopes ‘I fail.’ Well, yes, in the sense that we certainly are working hard to ensure that he does not further damage to the economy, then I guess one can fairly say that the GOP hopes he fails.

But it should also be noted that Obama’s failure is America’s success ....

THE REASON NOT TO BURN QURANS is that it's unkind -- not to jihadists, but to Muslims who mean us no harm. The same goes for building a mosque at ground zero -- in both cases, it's not a question of anyone's "rights," it's just a nasty thing to do.

KRUGMAN: not raising taxes is the same as paying people.

Mr. Obama appears to agree: by his logic, every dollar a taxpayer gets to keep is a "cost" - so if someone makes $100,000 per year and pays $30,000 in federal income taxes, the cost to the government obviously is $70,000.

In the liberals' view, all the money earned by everyone actually belongs to the government. In their beneficence, they allow wage earners to keep some of it, even though the government must incur tremendous costs to do so.

Don't you worry your little heads; Aunt Nanny and Uncle Sam will take care of you.