In the News....

-Found this over at Dissecting Leftism:

‘An interesting quote from Mr. A. Hitler: "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" (From p. 96 of Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer -- Macmillan, 1970)’

-Thanks to Donald May over at TownHall.com:

‘Those who doubt the future success of the proposed reform need only to look at the results of Chile's Social Security Reform Act of 1980 (www.pensionreform.org). José Piñera, Ph.D., architect of the plan when he was Chile’s Secretary of Labor and Social Security, stated during a September 9, 2003, Washington Post “Viewpoint” interview:

The reform has been successful beyond all my dreams. First, workers have obtained a ten percent real rate of return on their money over twenty-two years . . . Second, no money has been lost, what so ever, by bad investments or fraud . . . Third, ninety-five percent of employed workers have chosen the private retirement account system . . . And, finally, this new system of saving and investment has increased savings and helped double the rate of growth of the Chilean economy to seven percent a year.’

-Found at lgfs, Iowahawk has a hilarious post riddling Ted Kennedy...well worth a click.

-CNN pulled itself away from their negativity long enough to post an article that included this little tidbit:

‘Suicide bombs and mortar fire shadowed the event, the first multi-party election in 50 years, killing at least 22 people. But still voters came out in force, many with resolve, some with fanfare and others with their faces hidden.
Even in Fallujah, the devastated Sunni city west of Baghdad that was a militant stronghold until a U.S. assault in November, a slow stream of people turned out, confounding expectations.’

How many Americans would dare to vote under these same circumstances? Lefties, any of you? Well, maybe if Socialism was on the ballot......

From Yahoo News:

‘Israel has informed Palestinian officials that it is ready to withdraw from all West Bank towns "within a very short period of time" and to return to positions it held before the outbreak of fighting in September 2000, said Hassan Abu Libdeh, a senior Palestinian official.
Such a pullback is part of the long-stalled "road map" peace plan, which both sides now say they are ready to implement.'

Have to say, this is looking very positive.