- The U.S. will join a U.N. declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide. When the Bush administration failed to sign on to the French proposal last year, it made the U.S. the only Western nation not to do so.
- For what its worth, the first poll for the Presidential election has Barack Obama beating Sarah Palin 55% to 35%.
- The GOP has listed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a keynote speaker at a fundraiser. The Governor’s office responded stating that she knew nothing about it.
- North Korea has opened its first pizzeria, now if only they can find food for it.
- A bill in the Oregon state House would allow bicycles to treat stop signs as yield signs.
- One in twenty young German men identify themselves as Nazis.
- Jackson County in Michigan wants the signs warning motorists not to pick up hitchhikers removed because its scaring away tourists who think the area is dangerous.
- The Obama administration is making the claim that the Fourth Amendment does not protect cell phone information from government search and seizure laws.
- Canada’s Science Minister won’t confirm if he believes in evolution.
- A Dallas judge is facing criticism for his racially charged remark that “black folks have been cleaning up white folks messes for hundreds of years.”
- County clerks in Pennsylvania are at odds with each other over proper marriage certificates and couples are being caught in the ruckus.
- An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to ban stem cell research in his state.
