Talk about teaching children the facts-of-life, a daycare in Waco, Tx. Faces a state investigation over accusations that it took a group of 6-year-olds on a field trip to watch an R-rated film.

According to Fox News Radio, “Patrick Crimmins, a spokesperson for the Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services, confirmed to Fox News Radio that Young Expressions Child Care in Waco is under investigation. He said the allegations are serious.”

The International Energy Agency provides plenty of evidence that the era of cheap oil is over, forever.

Salon reports that, “the first sentence of the executive summary of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) influential ‘Medium Term Oil Market Report,’ released (Monday), states the broad outline of the problem baldly: ‘Despite four years of high oil prices, this report sees increasing market tightness beyond 2010, with OPEC spare capacity declining to minimal levels by 2012.”

When a public figure calls a press conference, the official always answers questions from reporters. Yet, Dallas County Constable Beth Villarreal wanted to rebel against tradition. On the day she was sworn into office, she refused to answer questions at her press conference, had her supporters shout down the media, and then fled by rushing to a pick-up truck and driving hurriedly away.

Constable Villareal apologized the next day for her offensive behavior. Nonetheless, her unwillingness to answer questions from journalists is causing some people to think that the newly sworn-in constable is hiding ‘skeletons in her closet.’ One could only wonder what she’s hiding and how long it will take before those particular issues come to light.

President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Ca.) are the two most powerful liberal Democrats in the United States of America. To determine who runs further to the left would be too difficult to conclude. Apparently, Obama and Pelosi struggle to work together in partnership to promote a leftist agenda.

On Tuesday night, Coppell Mayor Jane Peters and her 19-year-old daughter were found dead. Cops are investigating as a possible murder-suicide.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “Peters, 55, and her daughter, Corrine Peters, had both apparently been shot in the head, a city official said. There was no sign of forced entry at their home in the 700 block of Greenway Drive.”

The Russian spy cutie, Anna Chapman, has been stripped of her British passport after she was deported to Russia.

According to the Guardian UK, “it may be a long time before Anna Chapman sees Weybridge again. The spy whose attractive photographs and marriage to a British trainee psychologist from Bournemoth propelled he onto the front pages when she was arrested by the FBI last month in the U.S., has had her British passport revoked.”

Government debt woes and defaults are now sweeping into the Asia-Pacific region. The mayor of Seongnam, South Korea just announced that his municipal government can’t afford to repay debts. His revelations may cause a domino effect of other South Korean cities declaring a moratorium on repayment of debts, which could ignite another global financial crisis. The South Korean credit rating on government debt could be headed towards chaos.

If Bill White is elected governor of Texas, will he order the U.S. Border Patrol to leave the state? Will he hand over the state of Texas to the government of Mexico? Yes, these questions sound outrageous, but it’s also outrageous that Mr. White is courting an endorsement from the National Council of La Raza.

La Raza coordinates community activism with other racist Hispanic groups that support an ‘Open Doors’ immigration policy and other dubious political causes. The Dallas Morning News disclosed that Bill White, the Democratic nominee in the 2010 Texas governor’s race, gave a speech to La Raza on Monday in San Antonio to outline his “5-point education program.”

Do Houstonians take pleasure in the smell of rotting flesh? Thousands upon thousands of visitors have rushed to a Houston museum hoping to catch a whiff of a corpse flower that is in rare bloom.

The Houston Chronicle reports that, “the Houston Museum of Natural Science decided Monday to stay open 24 hours a day until Lois, the corpse flower, emits the siren stench of well, a corpse. (Update, the flower had not bloomed early Tuesday morning.)”

The Dallas Blog recently reported that the Taliban is actively recruiting and training monkeys to fight battles in Afghanistan against the U.S. Marines’ Corp. Yet considering that monkeys are not shy about showing a ‘rebellious streak,’ can they really be trusted to shoot at the expected targets?

The Daily Telegraph of London reported last year that, “a troop of performing monkeys instructed in the martial art of Taekwondo has taken revenge on their trainer.”