Veterans groups are suing the Department of Veterans Affairs over how it treats returning soldiers at risk of suicide. They are charging a "systemwide breakdown" in the way that traumatized soldiers have been treated.

The Department of Energy is continuing to add to the nation's 700-million-barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a time when oil prices are at all-time highs. Taxpayers are footing the bill.

Drying clothes on the line isn’t just a chore — it’s a political movement. Communities across the nation have banned the air-drying method for their unsightliness, but now environmentalists are pushing back. The state of Colorado passed a law overturning the bans and the Ontario government is considering to do the same.

Even before the current worldwide food emergency, the United Nations had already planned to declare 2008 the "International Year of the Potato." It's a hearty crop that's not as vulnerable to the whims of the commodities market, it can be grown at almost any elevation or climate, and it requires very little water.