The Washington Post publishes an op—ed by the director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives, Peter Wehner, directing our attention to some of the good news that the Post's (and most of the drive by media's) reporters gloss over, if they don't ignore outright. Some examples: Social Indicators: We are witnessing a remarkable cultural renewal in America. Violent crime rates remain at the lowest levels in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' survey (which started in 1973). We are experiencing the sharpest decline in teen crime in modern history. [....] The teen birth rate has fallen for a dozen consecutive years. The percentage of high school students who reported having had sex is significantly lower than in the early 1990s. The divorce rate has fallen steadily for over a decade. And teen smoking has dropped by almost 50 percent since the late '90s. [....] The American economy is the strongest in the world and growing faster than that of any other major...(Read Full Post)