Sunday, June 4, 2006 United States President George W. Bush used his weekly radio address to propose the country’s Constitution be amended to ban same-sex marriages. Mr. Bush formally defined marriage as a “union between a man and a woman” and said that an amendment was needed because the presence of “activist” courts left him with no alternative. He also stated that, “Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” Democrats have accused the government of using this as a smokescreen to divert attention from more…

Sunday, October 18, 2009 University of Alaska Anchorage campus police shot a bull moose on Thursday after it became entangled within fencing material. The animal was reportedly in an “agitated state” when it got its antlers stuck in a fence used to support young trees. Attempting to free itself, the moose struggled as it began moving towards the campus’s Fine Arts Building. Police blocked off the area and alerted the Alaska Department of Fish and Game before they shot the bull as it became an “imminent threat”. Police chief Dale Pittman said that the preferred method of taking down the animal was with tranquilizers, but the university’s police are not…