Things are happening across the world, as long as you have the open eyes to see them.
First, Afghanistan had their elections. Then, Libya gives up it’s nuclear program. The Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. Free elections in Iraq. The Green Revolution in Lebanon, The Palestinian Authority PM doing his best to truly reign in Hamas and their brethren. Saudi Arabia allowing elections of low level authorities. Egypt is starting free elections. Peace in the middle east, change for the better, freedom is breaking out all over the place.
While none of these events were specifically predicted here or anywhere for that matter, when I have commented upon this subject I said the dominoes would fall. Well, they are falling, and the speed is increasing logarithmically. For those of you who forgot your math or were never taught logarithms, that means the time between events is decreasing with every new event. Change is accelerating. Where it stops, who it will consume next, I don’t know, but I like what is happening.
And it all started with the vision of President Bush. He had the idea, the plan to make it happen. More change, more peace has broken out in the days since 9/11 than can be counted in the past 10 administrations.
Give Bush the credit. He’s earned it.

I have three small comments, all from the same article, Dissing Dan?
Dissing Dan?

Retiring CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather has long been in third place in the network news race and now even newsmen from his own network say they’re not watching. “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt tells the New Yorker he prefers ABC’s Peter Jennings.
Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite says he often watched NBC’s Tom Brokaw, and says Rather seemed to be “playing the role of newsman…whereas the other two appeared to be more the third-party reporter.” And veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace says Rather is “uptight and occasionally contrived,” adding, “I believe him. But I don’t find him as satisfying to watch.”

It must be pretty embarrassing to have ones friends, co-workers and even your boss watch somebody else. Courage, Dan. Courage.
Republican Evil?

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean (search), who recently said he “hates the Republicans and everything they stand for,” now says, in effect, that Republicans are evil. Dean told a group of supporters in Kansas that the battle between Democrats and Republicans is a “struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.”
The head of the Kansas Republican Party said he was “shocked” by Dean’s remarks, calling them “full of hatred.” But one woman in the audience told the Lawrence Journal-World Dean didn’t go far enough, adding, “I feel like he was a little bit too conservative. It didn’t move me.”

This just goes to show you the vitriolic hatred the Left has for the Right. Dean all but says the Right is evil and this ditz says he didn’t go far enough. What did she want him to say? I won’t provide any possibilities because I don’t want to be quoted out of context.
Anyway, this is a prime example as to why there can be no negotiation between Left and Right. As long as they have this view of us, they will do nothing but alienate other people who don’t share the same hatred and drive them Right. The Left will remain out of power as long as they continue to drive on the Left side of the road. Which, not coincidentally, is the side of oncoming traffic.
Missing Munitions

In the week before last year’s presidential election, the New York Times published 16 stories and columns on 380 tons of munitions that had allegedly gone missing from the Al-Qaqaa weapons storage site in Iraq. The Times also ran 7 letters to the editor on the subject, all of which criticized the Bush administration.
But since November 2nd, the story has not received a single mention in the Times. The paper’s ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, tells the National Review’s Byron York that editors apparently feel that there is nothing more to report on the story, but he says that there are unanswered questions that should be pursued.

This tells me two things. One, there was no story to begin with, and two, the Times, et. al., would go to any lengths to embarrass the Bush Administration and get them out of office. If they were good reporters, concerned about the truth instead of their political agenda, they would have followed up and wrapped this story up. But that’s asking too much of the Paper of Record.

Yesterday, SCOTUS reached out to international law to justify their decision to not allow youths under 18 to be executed. High Court Ends Death Penalty for Youths.
This is an abomination. The only document the SCOTUS should look at is our Constitution, not any foreign law or judicial ruling. People from every country in the world are clamoring to get into the US and the last thing they want is their old country influencing their new home.
Besides, I promise you this has lit the fuse to the powder keg of youth violence. Already youth gangs murder at will, simply because mollycoddling Liberals give the argument “They are not fully developed enough to understand the consequences of their actions.” I don’t care if they understand or not, prison or execution is not about “deterrence,” it’s about punishment.
If you want deterrence, then you start arming regular citizens and you give them a medal when they shoot one (or more) of these animals when they try to rob him.
This will open some floodgates that you have never seen before, I promise you. Not because again, the Death Penalty or prison is a deterrence, but as in, “Nyah, you can’t execute me!”