Palin doesn't hunt wolves from Airplanes.

Airborne wolf management is just that, a tool to control the population of wolves in certain areas.

It is not a perfect system, but it is better than letting nature take its course. Perhaps we should let nature take its course in other areas as well. For example, why do they control the flow of the Mississippi River with dikes and levees? Why do people hire pest controllers to get rid of bats, rats, and mice?

The Alaska Constitution specifically mandates that government manage the fish and game species on a maximum sustained yield basis. People would rather eat moose and caribou than wolves so they control the population of wolves. They do not exterminate the wolves, they just keep the population down so that the moose and caribou can utilize the habitat.

Wolves can only otherwise be controlled by starvation...that is letting nature take it's cours which results in fewer wolves and fewer moose and caribou.

Alaska would be overjoyed if PETA et al took it upon themselves to live trap the wolves in certain areas and released them in other states. Put them in central park for example, you would certainly control your population of feral cats that way.

We like our wolves, we never want to be without them, but when they reach the levels where the eat over 80% of the moose calves before they are one month old, they need to be controlled.

I enjoy reading about people espousing animal rights.

Where do you draw the line? What rights do animals have and which animals have those rights? For example, an insect is an animal, does a mosquito have certain rights? What about a mosquito that carries malaria? Does it have more or less rights than dung beetle?

Perhaps mosquitos don't have rights, maybe only mammals have rights. If so why?

Does a chimp have more rights than cow? Or do they have the same rights?

And even plants have life. For example, a redwood tree should have some rights if any plant does. What kind of rights does it have that perhaps a potato plant does not have?

It sure brings up a lot of questions in my mind when we start to talk about animal rights.

I would suppose that wolves, dolphins,and elephants would definitely have rights. But does a mouse in your house have rights? How about the cockroaches under your stove?

That line will sell well to the secular urban elites...but will bring more of Middle America into McCains camp.

He has been a long time liberal activist who interprets the bible in a way to suit his political views.

This is nothing new for the people who live here. Bess is well known to clash on purpose with anyone of a conservative bent.

He would say we should fear the election of anyone to the right of Obama who is known by his fellow democrats as the most liberal person in the US Senate.

So if you are a "progressive", he is your pastor and this is your church...if you want to attend one.