On Tuesday, May 28, Michael Farris, Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, filed an appeal to the entire 15-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit to re-hear the Romeike case, in which a three-judge panel in Cincinnati denied the German homeschooling family asylum for being persecuted in their home country.

Today, at Exxon’s annual meeting, the corporation’s shareholders overwhelmingly voted down a resolution to add special protections for “sexual orientation” to its corporate policy. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released a statement commending the shareholders for rejecting the resolution by a 4 to 1 margin.

The State of South Dakota and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development are taking new steps to promote the oil and gas industry within the state. “With South Dakota’s proximity to the Bakken Shale and Williston Basin, we are really positioned well to accelerate activity in this industry,” said Hunter Roberts, State Energy Policy Director. “We are not only looking to bring new business in to South Dakota, but also to assist our existing companies that have the potential to serve this market.”

With as vast as the Bakken Field promises to be, it could be dwarfed in size by shale oil prospects in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado where initial estimates show that as much as 1.8 trillion barrels of oil potential at play in the Green River Formation. Unlike Bakken, development of this oil resource is largely dependent upon federal government approvals as much of the land has been claimed by the federal government over the years.

I heard audio excerpts from this video yesterday on the podcast of Wretched Radio, and I heard the London Muslim terrorist say things that weren’t played in the ITV except in the video here. While it was pretty clear from what ITV did air that the killer was carrying out jihad, what he says in this clip make it even more clear.