Good news is busting out all over!

David Adesnik at Oxblog found some in the NY Times:

What is going on in Iraq? The NYT reports that oil production there is poised to surpass prewar levels. The NYT article on that subject is climibing the charts over at Memeorandum thanks to posts by Rob Tagorda, Greg Djerejian, Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds and Rantingprofs.

And part of the reason is the tapering off of attacks by the remains of the Saddamites:

Accordingly, the Coalition's casualty and fatality figures fell in February to a level considerably below even that of last summer. (NB: It's not just because February is a short month. The per-day figures fell dramatically as well.) Finally, if you look at the print version of this morning's NYT, you find an interesting sentence that has disappeared from the online version of its article:

American efforts to restore Iraqi oil have been led by the Army Corps of Engineers and its principal contractor, Halliburton.

Halli-who? You mean those guys who overcharged the government for gas? Are we really supposed to believe that they do anything right or good? Well, if the NYT says so, who am I to disagree?

Yikes, someone must be "off message" at the Times!

Then over at American RealPolitik they are having fun with economic numbers. Don't expect to see that on the evening news any time soon.