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From the mid-1800s on, hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered for their ivory. Their valuable ivory tusks, some weighing as much as 200 pounds each, were collected and the rest of the elephant was left to rot in the sun or for scavengers to feast on. The ivory was used for many things such as piano keys, to ladies combs to various ornate pieces of carved artwork. In some areas of Africa, elephants were hunted to extinction prompting many countries to pass laws on the import and sale of ivory from elephants. In 1975, the Convention on the...

As the president gears up for the 2012 campaign, he may need to brush up on his stump speeches. Sure, he’s canned the teleprompters recently, but telling America we need to “build stuff and invent stuff” isn’t really the epitome of eloquence:

On today's Morning Joe, devoted Obamacan Mika Brzezinski did her best to diffuse the pickle Barack Obama is in over the extremist statements made by his personal spiritual advisor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. Over the course of the three-hour show, Mika variously and repeatedly: * mentioned that Obama has already distanced himself from Wright. * pointed out that the Clinton campaign has its own race-related problems, as with Bill in S.C. and the recent Ferraro flap. * implied that the Clinton campaign might be behind the recent emergence of the Wright tapes. And then there was my favorite....