Whale hunters and environmental terrorists clashed in the Southern Ocean earlier this year.

According to the New Tang Dynasty Television, "a high-speed environmental vessel, the Andy Gil, and a Japanese security vessel collided, in a culmination of weeks of tension over whale hunting."

Paul Begala, a Clinton strategist, reviews the memoir of Bush's guru, which provides a compelling personal narrative followed by 500 pages of dishonesty and deception.

The Daily Beast reports that, "in writing his memoirs, Kerl Rove faced a choice. He could reach for history: Fearlessly face the numerous failures of the Bush presidency, account for his role in the destruction of the American economy and a disastrous, dishonest war. Or he could play to his base: Deny everything, admit nothing, assert boldly that white is black."

The suburban Pennsylvania woman, known as Jihad Jane, had been plotting a string of terrorism attacks in the U.S. for the past few years. Yet, bloggers, not the C.I.A., had been closely-monitoring her every move for the past three years.

Without a vigilant investigation undertaken by bloggers, Jihad Jane could have helped to lead a network of suicide bombers walk into America by illegally crossing the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. But she may have done so already.

The economic recession and the bleak jobless recovery severely harmed the private work force last year, causing unemployment to soar, but government employees emerged essentially unscathed, as disclosed by data released Wednesday by the Labor Department.

"Meanwhile," the Washington Times reports that, "the compensation for state and local government employees continued to easily outdistance the wages and benefits for workers in private business, a seperate Labor Department showed."

President Barack Obama is pushing for tougher environmental regulations to conform with the United Nations' call for stringent regulations on greenhouse gase emissions. Obama's 'cap-and-trade' legislation could potentially shatter an already fragile economy in the United States of America.

Nevertheless, former Houston mayor, Bill White, the Democratic nominee for the 2010 Texas governor's race, contends that he opposes Obama's 'cap-and-trade' bill because the Environmental Protection Agency must be much tougher on regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

The turnover of stock exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region outstripped their counterparts in Europe, as the stock markets  recover from the credit crisis, as disclosed by the financial website P5w.net, citing foreign media.

The China Daily reports that, "the turnover of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzen Stock Exchange of China's A share market had recently exceeded that of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, making Cina the second-largest stock market next to the U.S., the report said."