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See Good News from Iraq. I know, you thought there wasn’t any.
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Jill Stewart credits Schwarzenegger with improving the economy in California:
Our highly methodical governor is lining up many other boxes to blow up. California added 16,300 new jobs in April, according to the Department of Labor. Some analysts believe that’s not only due to stimulation from federal tax cuts, but also because of a buoyant attitude [...]

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OK, Paul, take this economic news and spin it if you can:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy grew at a 4.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of this year, slightly faster than previously thought and fresh evidence that the recovery possessed good momentum as it headed into the current quarter.
Via Jane Galt
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If you’re a wack-job:
NEW YORK – Abu Hamza al-Masri, the fiery Muslim cleric whose shuttered London mosque was linked to Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid, was arrested Thursday in Britain, accused in a U.S. indictment of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon and providing aid to al-Qaida, officials said.
Or [...]

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Michelle Malkin on Wonkette, Washingtonienne, and their fifteen minutes:
…give The Washington Post two vain, young, trash-mouthed skanks who couldn’t care less about what their parents think of their sex-drenched infamy, and the newspaper can’t wait to help make them full-fledged members of the media elite.
Sounds about right. And behind this wonderful story, we have Wonkette’s [...]

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James Lovelock points out that any rational response to the threat of global warming has to embrace nuclear power:
Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to be the safest [...]

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Turns out Mort Kondracke said it already:
In this respect, there is a real danger that Iraq could become like Vietnam – a self-inflicted defeat. Public support for the war is down, and even conservative columnists such as David Brooks and George Will are implying that Bush’s aims are unachievable.
Just as we lost Vietnam in the [...]

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Yahoo! News – Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq
“There are difficult days ahead and the way forward may sometimes appear chaotic,” he said. “The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom. But terrorists will not determine the future of Iraq.”
Unfortunately, the terrorists and Saddam [...]