The California Department of Fish and Game has issued a new restoration plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The "Draft Ecosystem Restoration Program Conservation Strategy" will, according to state officials, guide future efforts to conserve wetlands habitat in the Delta region and improve water flow in the estuary.

Members of the Tea Party movement have been called a lot of nasty things before like: crazy, extremists, teabaggers, and racists, but in the final hours of the debt ceiling debate, just one month before the ten-year anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, many Democrats, including Vice President Joe Biden, have been calling Tea Party members the nastiest name yet: terrorists.