Here's a potential body blow to our reliance on oil that comes from an unlikely place: Two California entrepreneurs are developing a machine for home use that allows you to create ethanol from sugar for as little as a dollar a gallon.

Finally, we have an answer to what Fox News actually means when they say they're fair and balanced!

What's the most effective way to get more animals off of endangered species status? It seems that according to the Bush administration, it's by making it harder to get on in the first place. If you'd think this would lead to more species nearing the brink of extinction or being lost altogether, the article seems to indicate you'd be right.

Well, no wonder foreign policy is hard. I suppose I'd be pretty grouchy at the Bush administration too if I'd been a friendly nation that they tried to browbeat into supporting U.N. resolutions that were against my interests, and then "rejected, mocked, and even punished" me when I didn't. Don't we know that bullies never win?

More problems are arising for the Bush administration's ill-advised border security implementation, as the "virtual fence" project is being scaled back after the pilot project in Arizona ran into technical difficulties.

We mentioned earlier John McCain's run-in with the Federal Election Commission regarding whether he can opt out of public funding against FEC rules. Well, that problem seems to be about to get a good deal worse for him. The Democratic National Committee is filing an official complaint against McCain with the FEC.

Clinton's Fort Worth event was canceled, and is being rescheduled. A police officer in Clinton's motorcade had an accident and passed away as Clinton traveled from Dallas to Fort Worth. More details as we get them.

Colorado Republicans have gone for Romney, and Democrats for Obama. Obama also picked up Utah, Romney Minnesota, and Huckabee looks imminent in Tennessee.

California numbers are starting to come in, and Clinton and McCain are looking strong.

The networks are hesitating, but our statistics have us calling Idaho for Barack Obama. And MSNBC has just called Arizona for Clinton, and Georgia for Huckabee.

Obama seems to have locked up Alabama, but the Republicans don't have it so easy: CNN had it called for McCain, and ABC for Huckabee, and now both have retracted their predictions as it's looking like it may be a photo finish in the state.