BEWARE OF GREEKS demanding gifts.

A SOLUTION: Let Turkey Have Gaza. “Turkey’s Islamist government, not known for its compassion to, say, Kurds in Turkey, has been shedding crocodile tears over Gaza for several years now, and helped instigate the flotilla fiasco. So I have a modest proposal: if Turkey is so concerned with the welfare of Gazans, why not let Turkey run the place. Israel doesn’t want it, and never has; it tried to give it back to Egypt several times, but Egypt doesn’t want it, either. Meanwhile, Gaza is controlled by a terrorist government that is both cruel and incompetent; and Israel is not going to lift its siege to long as Hamas is in charge.”

HAITIAN “SOCIAL JUSTICE” GROUPS want to burn aid materiel. Sure, that makes sense.

POLITICO: White House political team stumbles, bumbles.

Related: Political problems converging on Obama White House all at once. “While his first year and a half may have been challenging on a policy level, the president is now facing political problems that have thrown his administration completely off message and are likely to inflict lasting damage on him and his reputation as both a political reformer who represents a new kind of politics and as a competent manager of the government.”

SHOCKER: New York Times: Data Used to Justify Health Savings Can Be Shaky. Now they tell us.

DAILY DEBT GROWTH:

Here’s a fun fact: Since the beginning of the 2000′s, the national debt has increased by $7,274,735,146,661.64, more in a period of ten years than in the previous 211 year history of the Republic.

Obama’s share of that? So far, $2,423,949,411,973.89 in 499 days. Or over $4.8 billion in debt growth per day.

Under President Bush? Debt growth was at over $1.6 billion per day. Now, that $1.6 billion isn’t a good number, but it’s better than the $4.8 billion per day under Obama.

Now ask yourself this: Does the government have a revenue problem, meaning that we’re not taxed enough? Or does the government have a spending problem?

Indeed.

WILL COLLIER can’t help gloating.

KATIE GRANJU: Justice For Henry.

OUCH: Change!… Bush Restored the Iraqi Marshes – Obama Destroyed the US Marshes. Unfair, really, but not by the standards of what was said about Bush . . . .

MEGAN MCARDLE: AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans: Good for Smartphone Users, Bad News for the iPad.

CAROLINE GLICK: Turkey Joins The Jihadist Axis.

Related: Robert Pollock: Erdogan And The Decline Of The Turks. “When I asked the prime minister about stories alleging a U.S.-Israeli murder and organ selling scheme in Iraq, he could not bring himself to condemn them.”

ONE BUBBLE CRUSHING ANOTHER: The Next Generation of Home Buyers Has Too Much College Debt.

LIST: 20 under 40.

LIVEBLOGGING THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE at Throwing Things.

MICKEY KAUS: Democrats Are On The Path to Doom — I Want Off!

JIM TREACHER: I will gladly accept a cushy job in the Obama administration in exchange for not running against a Democrat. You’d think they’d have moved sooner to eliminate the “Treacher threat.”

UPDATE: Charlie Martin writes: “Dude, if running him over with a black SUV didn’t work….”

INJUSTICE IN Rwanda.

BEST AND BRIGHTEST: SEC seeks to ban former ‘auto czar’ from Wall St. activities for up to 3 years.

UPDATE: “Heckuva Job on the Auto Bailout, Rattie.”

MICKEY KAUS ANSWERS Five Questions From CalBuzz.

JEFF JARVIS: “The Federal Trade Commission says it wants to save journalism. I’m not sure who asked it to.”