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<p>About 1,200 mink were released from cages at the M. DeMuth farm near Waverly over the weekend.</p> <p>The incident is being investigated by federal, state and county authorities as an act of possible terrorism by militant animal-rights activists.</p> <p>A Bremer County sheriff's spokesman said Sunday that the owner of the farm was trying to recover as many of the animals as possible.</p>

Failed Predictions: book review of 'Betrayal of Science and Reason' by Paul Ehrlich The Ehrlichs have a message--simplistic and wrong; the paranoid title of their book pretty much tells the story: They sense a conspiracy by "anti- environmentalists," who have "successfully sowed seeds of doubt among journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large about the reality and importance of such phenomena as overpopulation, global climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity." But there is no conspiracy out there; and if journalists are listening, it may just be that they find scientific facts persuasive. Paul Ehrlich is a professor of...

Calling All Convoy Freepers'Sawgrass Rebellion' launched "Private land owners are being forced off their land by a variety of coersive land-use policies, being imposed under the banner of Everglades Restoration," endangered species protection, open space, Heritage areas, and a host of other programs, all designed to displace people, or severely restrict the use of private property." Henry Lamb,  Executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization."We predict that approximately 25,000 people will be forced to leave their homes." Don E. Lester, The 15,000 Coalition Naples, Florida "WE'VE HAD ENOUGH!!" "We are taking back America and our rights as free...

Government biologists admitted faking a study monitoring the presence of Canada lynx in southern Washington state. (ABCNEWS.com) Missing Lynx Are Animals More Important Than People? CommentaryBy John Stossel Aug. 2 — "We need water! We need water!" That's the refrain from farmers up in Klamath Falls, Ore. Their fields have dried up, and some farmers have even lost their farms — all because of a fish known as the short-nosed sucker. There's a lake full of water in Klamath Falls, but last year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered the irrigation gates from the lake closed — meaning...