In the last 60 days nearly 100,000 supporters of the Center for Biological Diversity have sent petitions to the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, urging him to save the polar bears, but the Obama admin. refuses! Legal battle will begin shortly.

The high court said it will rule on the case of a Virginia man who was convicted of selling videos of pit bulls fighting. He had advertised his videos in Sporting Dog Journal, an underground publication that reports on illegal dogfights.

Palin doesn't believe that women or girls should have birth control. She believes every raped female who gets pregnant should have to carry the child to term.

Because of Cheney's intervention, declaring that there was no threat to the fish. What followed was the largest fish kill the West had ever seen, with tens of thousands of salmon rotting on the banks of the Klamath River.

The U.N. Security Council authorized on Tuesday up to 26,000 troops and police for Darfur and approved the use of force to protect civilians in Sudan's arid western region.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin met to discuss details of a partnership between the cities that could see Phoenix "adopt" a devastated corner of the city. Officials hope the partnership could serve as a model for other cities.

DARPA has a wide ranging research program on "improving" soldiers. However, DARPA (and indeed DoD "vision" documents) rarely use the term "soldier." They prefer the term "warfighter."

Even as some federal agencies spend millions to protect wildlife, another federal agency spends millions more to kill wildlife in record numbers. The federal government destroyed 2.7 million wildlife in 2004 - one animal every 12 seconds -