Writer-slash-environmentalist Nick Jans gives us an Alaskan’s view of Sarah Palin and her run for the White House.
It’s a great piece - really, I could excerpt the whole damn thing - but this piece in particular is worth noting:
Palin pushed hard, along with sport hunting and guiding interests, to help defeat a ballot initiative that would have stopped the state’s current aerial wolf control program, which had been criticized by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council for flawed science. Now her administration has pointedly refused to respond to repeated public information requests (I’m one of the petitioners, and a potential litigant), regarding the apparently illegal killing of 14 wolf pups at their dens on the Alaska Peninsula this spring by state personnel, including two high-level Department of Fish and Game administrators. A biologist at the scene admitted to an independent wolf scientist that the 6-week-old pups were he...
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin implored Georgia Republicans to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his hotly contested Senate runoff, telling a cheering crowd Monday that the first step in rebuilding the GOP begins with the Southern state.... more
Palin rallies crowd at first of four rallies
Sarah Palin is on a barnstorming tour of the state of Georgia
today, campaigning for fellow Republican Saxby Chambliss. The
incumbant senator faces a runoff election tomorrow against
challenger Jim Martin, his Democrat challenger. With votes still
being recounted in the Minnesota senate contest between Al Franken
and Norm Coleman, the outcome of Tuesday’s Georgia runoff could
determine the size of the Democrats’ majority in... more
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin urged Georgia voters to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Tuesday’s runoff in an election eve appeal that underscored her popularity within the Republican Party and the GOP’s efforts to stave off erosion of its shrinking Senate numbers.... more
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Slaughtering wolves on the Alaska Peninsula appears to have had the desired effect - more caribou got a chance to live, according to biologists with the...... more
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DawnWatch: Please thank Oprah for her puppy mill and adoption show, 4/4/08
Many of you have written to me (thank you!) to make sure that we all know that Oprah is doing a show on puppy mills this Friday, April 4. Woohoo! Wayne Pacelle’s blog ( hsus.typepad.com/wayne/ ) says, “Oprah taped an entire hour-long program last week on puppy mills and the related issues of shelter adoptions, spay and neuter, and euthanasia.”
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There are also a few photos of Opie on Flickr , and on Farm Sanctuary’s website here . So sad, his passing is, but at least he only knew a few hours of human cruelty, followed by 18 years of bliss at Farm Sanctuary. Dog bless, sweet boy.
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American Freedom Campaign: Urge Congress to investigate the president’s abuse of executive power
Prosecutions may be appropriate. Impeachment should not be out of the question. But what is needed immediately is a thorough investigation into the Bush administration’s understanding of the extent of the president’s power as commander-in-chief.
American Rivers: Tell the EPA to Dump the Pumps Once and For All!
An EPA veto would put an end to the U.S. Army Corps of... more
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