Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the UN to Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change, says a University of California authority on farming and greenhouse gasses.

An archaic law in the North Carolina Constitution is being challenged after some question newly-elected city council member's belief in "Almighty God".

I have been fascinated by the permanence and healing power of grassland for 15 years now. If we respect the great original wisdom of the prairies, I'm convinced we can heal the wounds inflicted on the American landscape by industrial agriculture.

With rooftop solar arrays and hand-painted murals, Common Vision's bio-powered buses and trucks carried 15 modern day Johnny Appleseeds to four schools and two community centers. Two hundred fruit trees were planted by students and community members.

Daniel decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So he gave up consumer culture altogether, and for the last 9 years, he's survived by living in a cave in Utah, and dumpster diving, foraging, fishing, and occasionally hunting for food.

Yesterday, we highlighted a Newsmax column by John L. Perry essentially advocating a military coup to resolve the "Obama problem" It's just the latest example of extreme right-wing rhetoric directed at of extreme right-wing rhetoric directed at Obama.

Smith, a 21-year-old junior at UNC Chapel Hill, was shot just before 5 a.m. Sunday after being stopped by police in Archdale, southwest of Greensboro on Interstate 85. A police report states that Smith was stopped after he called 911 and was suicidal.

As usual, Beck's hysterical rantings have no basis in reality or fact and as usual the same dedicated collection of wing-nuts and conspiracy theorists have picked up the story as gospel truth without even the slightest degree of skepticism or doubt.

An off-duty Sheriff's deputy tailing another driver in a traffic dispute told a 911 dispatcher he wanted her stopped by police so he could "show her how stupid she is when she finds out who I am." The officer later says he'll "pay her a visit" at her home

A local woman's accusation that an off-duty Sheriff's deputy threatened her in a case of road rage has sparked an internal affairs investigation. She has also sharply criticized the conduct of the Asheville Police Department, which responded to the call.