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South Dakota HB 1004 Would Declare Open Season on Cougars

Cougar News

January 31, 2008

South Dakota House Bill 1004 would come close to declaring open season on cougars in South Dakota, especially outside the Black Hills National Forest.

It would allow landowners to kill any cougar they perceive, or allegedly perceive, to be a threat to humans or livestock. They would not need a license, and they would be allowed to keep the carcass. They could claim they perceived a threat but really wanted a trophy.

FEMA wants millions in hurricane aid returned

msnbc.msn.com

February 6, 2007

In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.

Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region. The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 Louisiana households improperly received $309.1 million in grants, and officials acknowledge those numbers are likely to grow.

More Deadbeat Granddads Failing To Make Birthday Payments

The Onion (Satire)

September 12, 2006

ATHENS, GA - With truant payments on the rise, millions of American grandchildren are being left seriously undergifted, officials say.

At 7:34 p.m. on Monday, two Athens County deputy sheriffs forcibly entered Room 3B of the Sunwood Assisted Living complex, and, after waking him up, took Georgia's No. 1 deadbeat granddad into custody - 79-year-old Roy Ehrengruber, who owes over $480 in grandchild birthday-card money.

Christians to battle Feds on 'million-dollar' tracts

World Net Daily

June 3, 2006

WASHINGTON - If and when the Secret Service visits the offices of Living Waters Ministry in Southern California to collect more "counterfeiting evidence" in the form of gospel tracts disguised as $1 million bills, agents better be armed with a warrant.

Ray Comfort, the world-renowned evangelist and head of the ministry, says he is not inclined to turn over any more copies of one of his most effective tools for witnessing his faith just because some Treasury agents demand them.

The allure of Google's data ...

San Francisco Chronicle (CA)

January 20, 2006

In an effort to revive a 1998 pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago, the Bush administration filed papers with a San Jose judge Thursday asking the popular search engine to hand over millions of records.

The data, it contends, will help the government "understand the behavior of Web users" and prove that the law is more effective in protecting minors from pornography than filtering software. While it may seem like a noble cause, there is the issue of privacy -- especially on the heels of the administration's ventures into eavesdropping.

Drug Policy Alliance: Action Alert: Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims

Drug Policy Alliance (DC)

October 27, 2005

Nearly three million people have been displaced from their homes because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Many have lost everything.

Yet federal laws prohibit these victims from receiving welfare, food stamps, public housing, student loans and other benefits if they have a drug law conviction. People who have lost everything should not be denied public assistance just because they were convicted of a drug offense sometime in their past.

U.S. prison population soars in 2003, '04

USA Today

October 3, 2005

While the U.S. crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released, the government reports.

The population of the nation's prisons and jails has grown by about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, according to figures released Sunday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. By last June 30 the system held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents.

House votes for oil drilling in Alaskan refuge

MSNBC

April 21, 2005

Stage set for clash with Senate; Bush wants energy bill by summer

The House voted late Wednesday to allow oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge. The bill's sponsors said oil from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as much as a million barrels a day, will be needed to help curtail the country's growing dependence on oil imports.

Bush White House's Christ-less Christmas

World Net Daily

December 21, 2004

WASHINGTON - What's virtually missing from the White House commemoration of Christmas this year? -- Jesus.

The little baby in the manger. The reason for the season. While President Bush was re-elected last month in an election victory many attributed to an outpouring of support by evangelical Christians impressed with his candid outspokenness about his faith, some Americans notice the White House website lacks even a single mention of Jesus, whose birth is celebrated by hundreds of millions worldwide Dec. 25.

Drug Policy Alliance: Heroin is Purest in the U.S., Again

Drug Policy

December 17, 2004

As the federal government continues to pour countless billions into the "war on drugs" the Drug Enforcement Administration has a problem.

"You can't buy any better heroin in the world than you can buy in New Jersey," says Michael Pasterchick, special agent in charge of the Newark DEA office.

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