What's Better In The News With Pot, The Ukraine, And The Republicans

  What's better with pot is that if you are 18 years or older, you may legally grow six marijuana plants if you live in Uruguay. Additionally, private companies will be able to grow pot, and the government will sell it. Some 20 to 30 companies are poised to start pot farms in the warmer northern regions. Countries to the south of the United States are sickened by the drug wars the U.S. has financed in their countries. The only difference such wars has made is that the violence has become more brutal and widespread. The drugs remain. Mexico City legislators are looking at bills to legalize marijuana as are officials in Puerto Rico, Chile, Belize, Barbados, Trinidad, and Tobago. Many credited the initiatives in California and Colorado for inspiring them plus giving them models to consider for their own use.
  The Ukrainian government made a surprise push to eject the demonstrators from their camps by sending in the troops. Surprisingly, the troops were rebuffed by the demonstrators without violence. Unidentified sources in Yanukovych's administration had not expected this push to clear the camps and stated it was because the president has come under the influence of more hard-line advisors, including, ominously, Russians. We predict Yanukovych  will use violence if he continues his association with Russia. At the same time, Catherine Ashton, the European's foreign policy chief did meet with the president who repeated over two days of meetings that he would sign the EU pact. If this is true, it is good news, but along with using violence, the Russians also export lying.
  What's better for the Republicans is the many Democrat leaders who said along with Obama that you would be able to keep your insurance with ObamaCare, and it would be cheaper, are in trouble for being wrong, badly wrong. Republicans may have an issue they can ride to Congressional victories in '14 and a Presidential victory in '16. Certainly, many voters are getting weary of the mistakes of this administration and are ready for a change. As for the Republican leaders, it all comes back to character: Are there any leaders with strong enough personalities to say the obvious or will they too continue to admire the Emperor's clothes just as McCain and Romney did?
 These commentaries are based upon news from the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
  Peter Nickerson, Truth-Seeking Activist And Community Organizer