Good News / Bad News Friday Roundup

I'm going to try something new on Fridays (at least this Friday): compiling links with minimal commentary to stories of all types, adding to the list during the day (I hope), keeping it at the top of the pile, and categorizing each as "good news" or "bad news". Yeah, I know the world is grayscale. Today it's not. It's my blog.

GOOD NEWS
Air (Hate)-America Continues to Tank - Blue State Conservative notes AA's loss of the nation's 6th largest market (Philadelphia) where it was attempting to make inroads on a station with African-American programming.
Terrorist-Sympathy Museum Removed from NYC WTC 9-11 Memorial Plan - Blackfive has the story. The dead are resting easier tonight.
Democrats Split Over Roberts - The Wall Street Journal (subcription) today notes that virtually all of the Democratic Senators facing re-election next year, those in red states, plus a few others voted to confirm John Roberts. 'Advise and consent' is starting to look like pontificate and flee.
Democrats Demoralized - Vodkapundit notes a piece by Howard Fineman in Newsweek, in which the latter remarks: "...in a roomful of well-connected Democrats the other night, I was struck by how gloomy they [Democratic leaders] were. They... didn’t have much faith in their own party’s prospects." I wonder why. One could argue (as Vodkapundit does, and I have) that having a party this weak only makes the other party sloppy and stupid. True. But what may be best for the Democrats and the country longer term is for the current crop of ideologues to be Daschled on the rocks of the next two elections to make way for the Trumans, JFKs and Daniel Patrick Moynihans of the next generation.
Iraq and Afghanistan Steadily Rebuilding - I'm two weeks late to the blogging retirement of Arthur Chrenkoff (due to a change in his employment status), and his handoff to group blog "Good News From the Front".
Ronnie Earle - The Movie - Byron York notes over at NRO: "For the last two years, as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has given a film crew 'extraordinary access' to make a motion picture about his work on the case." Why is this good news? Because context is coming to light (albeit slowly). And context is a good thing.

BAD NEWS
First Polygamist Marriage in the Netherlands - Oh that will never happen. It's just a right wing strawman argument designed to deny people their basic rights. It has. Mrs. Maru's comment: filing their taxes is going to be pretty complicated.
Elian Gonzalez Calls Castro 'Father'; Repudiates Mother's Escape Attempt - This is beyond sad. "Gonzalez, 11, is a hero in Cuba after what happened to him when he was just 6 years old... Gonzalez gave a patriotic speech in front of Castro and cameras on the fifth anniversary of the day U.S. law enforcement officers raided his Miami relatives' house and removed him at gunpoint to be repatriated." The story will air on 60 Minutes Sunday night.
Cuba, Syria, Belarus Join IAEA Board, Boosting Iran - That would be the International Atomic Energy Agency. Yes, that Syria. Yes, that Cuba. Unbelievable. H/T: Babalu Blog.