From todays Investors Business Daily an editorial on polar bears…
Regulation: The Interior Department ruled Wednesday that the polar bear will be protected as a threatened species. Why special treatment for an animal whose population has more than doubled over the last 50 years?
and the answer is…
The polar bear is more than just a cuddly looking beast that roams the Arctic region. It’s a wishbone in the fight between misanthropic activists determined to send the developed world back a few centuries and those who wish to see human development go forward.
Sad polar bear stranded on ice floe courtesy of AP. Get the picture?
These beautiful creatures have become pawns in the environmentalists’ campaign to block oil and gas exploration and drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and beyond.
