Students at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island have to watch environmentalist propaganda to graduate, Cybercast News Service reports. One science class requirement forces students to take in the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth. Student Dana Peloso questioned the requirement in a letter to the school: "With the issue of global warming being such a highly politicized topic, with the scientific community unsure if global warming is man-induced or part of the natural cycle of the earth, do you think that it is intellectually honest to only show the alarmist viewpoint?" he asked. An administration official responded: "After an initial and heated debate, scientists no longer question whether the atmosphere is being warmed due to human activities and instead are increasingly impressed with the speed and impact of the process."

Planned Parenthood is threatening to sue a pro-life activist who taped an abortion clinic employee encouraging her to lie about her age in order to avoid being reported as a statutory rape victim. Lila Rose, an 18-year-old UCLA sophomore, entered a local Planned Parenthood clinic, pretending to be a 15-year-old impregnated by a 23-year-old boyfriend, Cybercast News Service reports. A hidden camera video showed the clinic employee telling Rose that she could "figure out a birth date that works" to avoid having the group notify police, which is required by California law. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California president Kathy Kneer said the on-camera sting was "manipulative," but acknowledged the worker was in the wrong. Lawyer David French of the Christian legal group Alliance Defense Fund, accused the group of "engaging in a campaign...to bully an 18-year-old to distract attention from the fact that their employees were engaging in unlawful behavior."

Animal rights extremists demand that the Los Angeles Dodgers stop serving hot dogs during Major League Baseball games, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Animal Legal Defense Fund urged team owner Frank McCourt to sever links with local meat processor, Farmer John, "and its cruelly produced pork products." The group is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the company and local supplier Corcpork. An activist spokeswoman said the makers of the Dodger Dog are cruel to pigs because workers keep them in "inhumane" small cages.

The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation accuses Greenpeace activists of imperiling cod fishermen in the North Sea by carrying out what it called "suicidal" direct action against trawlers, the Scotsman reports. One agitator interfered with fishing operations by clinging to a buoy with a sign marked "Stop battering cod," while another jumped into the water in the path of two ships, forcing them to retract their nets. Bertie Armstrong, head of the fishermen’s group, said protesters could cause marine workers to be killed. "The stupid part is this action is not required. We understand the problem with cod and we are working hard to find a solution," he said.

Leftist documentarian Michael Moore challenges former Senator Fred Thompson, a possible 2008 candidate for president, to a debate on health care issues. Moore sent a letter to the cigar-smoking actor accusing him of supporting "Fidel Castro and the Cuban regime by being a purveyor of fine Cuban exports despite the trade embargo," www.drudgereport.com reported May 15. Thompson, now a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., was dismissive. "The next time you’re down in Cuba visiting your buddy Castro, you might ask him about another documentary filmmaker. Name is Nicolás Guillén. He did something Castro didn’t like and they put him in a mental institution for several years, giving him devastating electro-shock treatments. Mental institution, Michael. It might be something you ought to think about," he said in a videotaped message available online at http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=611.