Interesting News From Around the Web

Brazil discovers huge oil reserves off its coast. Good. Brazil says OPEC needs to bring down the price per barrel of oil. Great.

The UN claims that “the world’s scientists have spoken, clearly and in one voice” with the release of the IPCC report claiming that humans are destroying the world through global warming. It would be nice if that "one voice" could get the facts right, at least in the first paragraph of its report. As to this one voice claim . . .

A use of the police force to crush dissent . . . by Democrats in Oklahoma. There is no force in America more committed to the stifling of free speech then the neo-liberals that make up today's Democratic Party.

George Will takes a look at some of the reprehensible company John Edwards keeps and tells us why lawyers such as Milberg Weiss give the legal profession a horrible image.

What a great juxtaposition. Gateway Pundit tallies the numbers from al Jazeera and another source to show just how successful the surge has been in Iraq: "violence in Iraq is down by 50%; civilian casualties in Iraq are down by 60%; Baghdad casualties are down by 75%; Basra violence is down by 90%; [and] terrorist attacks in Iraq are down by 80%." Compare that with the Washington Post, which has been running a near news blackout on good news from Iraq over the past several months, only to tell us today that President Bush is regaining his bearings - and they can't seem to grasp why. As WaPo puts it in their page 1 article: "In many ways, [President Bush's] shifting political fortunes may owe as much to the absence of bad news as to any particular good news."

Actually, the WaPo did include a bit of the good news out of Iraq today . . . on page A14. "U.S. officials on Sunday declared a 55 percent drop in attacks since the launch of an offensive nine months ago . . ." They also note that bombs across Iraq killed at least 20 people, highlighting the country's continuing security threats. Al Qadea is in tatters, but it still has a bite. Intelligence from the community led to a find of 20 vehicles rigged for suicide bombs just last week.