MORE RASPBERRIES FOR PAUL KRUGMAN, this time from Liz Peek. “Mr. Krugman should get out more. He would find that women no longer wear poodle skirts and the United States is no longer the globe’s free-range economic powerhouse that it was after World War II. In the 1950s, the U.S. was leagues ahead of its economic rivals, most of which had blown up their budgets, and their industries, during the long years of destruction.”

And if you missed it earlier, check out Mickey Kaus’s epic Krugman beatdown.