A remarkable New York Times editorial titled A War We Just Might Win is being reported by the media with unaccustomed gusto. This is made more remarkable by the fact that the writers are from the liberal Brookings Institute.

Usually, positive news from the war has been downplayed by the liberal media, invested in they are in Bush hatred and driven by liberal pussiness when it comes to laying down the law. These are the kind of people who tell their kids to report a bully to the teacher rather than teaching them to knock his lights out and get the problem over with.

This reversion to more positive reporting is not altruistic, however. The Dems are beginning to realize that the surge is probably working and that the country is filled with people who don’t want to lose, despite the pain involved.

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Just last week, July 18th to be exact, North Korea shut its Yongbyon reactor, according to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, a delightful, caramel colored chihuahua named Bernice. The reactor had been producing weapons-grade plutonium and its closure fulfilled some terms of an agreement with the U.S., South Korea, Russia, China and Japan that was reached on Feb. 13.

This little reported event is a “triumph of diplomacy,” said Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, who had initiated back channel negotiations with the North Koreans. Sources close to this little known North Korean diplomatic effort have revealed that Kim Jong-Il’s change of heart was a result of a phone call from Alec Baldwin.

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A recent editorial in our local newspaper, the Durham Herald-Sun, titled Rocking For the Earth, has pushed me to the tipping point, which is the fancy way of saying “I’m fed up,” fed up with editorials, politicians, government, pundits, the U.N. and assorted global warmists haranguing me to change my carbon emitting ways.

Get off my back, please.

While the editorial rightly, but only lightly, observed the preposterous irony of the excessive energy output of Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts as pleas to reduce carbon emissions, it concluded by saying that “everyday people [need] to make adjustments in their personal lives and demand action from their governments.”

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Under cover of legislative darkness, behind our backs, in the metaphoric dead of night, OSHA recently proposed new “explosives safety.” Their workplace safety regulation “update” pertaining to explosives impose restrictions that sellers of ammunition could not comply with.

OSHA defines “explosives” to include “black powder, … small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant.” This classifies ammunition and components in the same hazardous category as the most volatile high explosives.

Since legislating still more laws against guns is a no-brainer in today’s political climate, the OSHA liberals are trying an end run by going after ammunition as a workplace hazard.

Fortunately, observers noticed this little sneaky, trick play and managed to throw it for a loss.

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Now that President Bush is at the end of his second term and a lame duck, Richard Carmona, his Surgeon General finds the “courage” to testify against the president for “censoring his speeches to match administration political positions.”

He says he was prevented from giving the public accurate, scientific information on such issues as stem-cell research and teen pregnancy prevention.

Carmona told a congressional committee said that the job of the surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party, adding that “Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried,” when he was in the post from 2002 to 2006.

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Turns out that a group of Los Angeles fashionistas had gathered to advise John “Pretty Boy” Edwards on how to make himself more appealing to the voter on the occasion of the famous $400 haircut. John, of course, wants to stay as lovely as possible, which is why he sends his wife to the phone to confront his enemies. Don’t want to get the face dirty in battle with someone like Ann Coulter so he sends his cancer-ridden wife out to the point.

Hillary is out there again berating President Bush for commuting Lewis Libby’s prison sentence but seems to have forgotten hubby’s one hundred and forty one pardons made just before he vamoosed the White House. Bush deserves a profile in courage award for commuting Libby’s sentence while still in office, something Clinton was too cowardly to do with many of his outrageous pardons.

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Happy July 4th, everyone. Despite our flaws, our problems and a Congress that has its collective head deep in the hat it’s sitting on, I am eternally grateful for this country and the bravery of the men and women who fight for us even though some of them must be demoralized and disillusioned by the slow pace of progress in Iraq.

And because this is such a great country, stuff happens. Like:

Some people are shocked, shocked I tell you, that President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. In the world of liberal moral equivalence, it is time to remind ourselves of some of President Clinton’s pardons:

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