Wednesday, May 7, 2014

RSN: Enough "Mistakes." Wildlife Services Should Put an End to Its Indiscriminate Killing, In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started, et al



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Andy Borowitz | In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started
Michael Barry, left, and Brett Granville, members of the Greece town board, participate in a moment of prayer at the start of a meeting in Greece, New York, on June 16, 2013. (photo: Heather Ainsworth/Bloomberg)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "By a five-to-four vote, the Court eliminated what grade-school children have traditionally been taught was one of the key rationales for founding the United States in the first place."
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Robert Redford | US Senate Shouldn't Circumvent the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Process
Robert Redford, Reader Supported News
Redford writes: "It is particularly painful to see some members of Congress once again trying to circumvent a legitimate process to push approval of Keystone XL - a pipeline that would take some of the world's dirtiest oil from Canada, through the heart of America, to the Gulf Coast and then off to overseas markets."
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Harvey Wasserman | The NYT's Unintentional "Epitaph" for Nuclear Power
Harvey Wasserman, Solartopia!
Wasserman writes: "In support of the dying nuclear power industry, the New York Times Editorial Board has penned an inadvertent epitaph. Appearing in the May 2 edition, The Right Lessons from Chernobyl twists and stumbles around the paper's own reporting. Though unintended, it finally delivers a 'prudent' message of essential abandonment."
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Joshua Holland | Don't Turn America Into a Shooting Gallery
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "At the vanguard of the gun rights movement is a small group of Americans who perceive themselves as being under siege by the modern world."
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45 Day Rape Sentence Put Texas Judge Under Scrutiny
Lisa Maria Garza, Reuters
Garza reports: "State District Judge Jeanine Howard has come under criticism for the sentence and for telling the Dallas Morning News last week the girl 'wasn't the victim she claimed to be.'"
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Another Armed Rebellion Brewing in Utah
Doug Peacock, The Daily Beast
Peacock writes: "Over in Nevada, the issue was defending deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy's illegal cattle grazing; now, in Utah, a county commissioner wants to build an illegal road down a protected federal canyon; he's planned an illegal ATV rally."
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Enough "Mistakes." Wildlife Services Should Put an End to Its Indiscriminate Killing
Zack Strong, The Wildlife News
Strong writes: "Each year Wildlife Services - a little known agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture - shoots, traps and poisons millions of animals, including about 100,000 native carnivores, ostensibly to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife. However, thousands of these animals are killed unintentionally, and many more are killed before any conflict has even occurred."
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