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Frustrated families wait in the rain for evacuation flights in Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport here on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

EDITORIAL: Celebrating tragedy

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sandy Lertzman, a 62-year-old animal rights activist who founded the Animal Rights Foundation, is seen here in an undated photo on the foundation's website. She and 31 young dogs were found dead in a car inside the garage of her Moreland Hills home on Nov. 4. (animalrightsfoundation.com)

Ohio animal rights activist kills herself, 31 rescue dogs

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A man walks home with his son Monday Nov. 11, 2013, following Friday's devastating typhoon that lashed Hernani township, in eastern Samar province, in the central Philippines. Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably huge recovery effort that had barely begun Monday, as bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Relief efforts mobilize in U.S. to assist typhoon victims

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs visited Capitol Hill to pitch her idea for independent species research. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Texas calls for aid from Congress to put science into the Endangered Species Act

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

NBA, NBPA donate $250,000 to Philippines efforts

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

ROTHBARD: Pressing ahead on climate salvation

By David Rothbard and Craig Rucker

A resident passes by toppled car outside an airport terminal after powerful Typhoon Haiyan slammed into Tacloban city, Leyte province central Philippines on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. Rescuers in the central Philippines counted at least 100 people dead and many more injured Saturday, a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region. AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Over 100 dead as one of the strongest typhoons on record slams Philippines

Associated Press

** FILE ** Apple employees line up iPad Airs to sale on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Stanford, Calif. Apple's iPad Air, a thinner, lighter and faster-running version of its previous large tablet computers, goes on sale with a starting price of $499. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

iPad explodes, setting Australian store customers fleeing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The new Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a Norway spruce about 80-feet tall, is loaded on to a trailer from the property of the Vargoshe family in Shelton, Conn., on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The tree-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 4. The tree will remain on display until Jan. 7. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Brian A. Pounds)

76-foot Connecticut Christmas tree heads to NYC’s Rockefeller Center

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A house is engulfed by the storm surge brought about by powerful typhoon Haiyan that hit Legazpi city, Albay province Friday Nov.8, 2013 about 520 kilometers ( 325 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines on Friday, setting off landslides, knocking out power in one entire province and cutting communications in the country's central region of island provinces. (AP Photo/Nelson Salting)

Philippines battered by typhoon: ‘We just have to pray’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, Joe Morette watches as his flock of turkeys drink beer from the trough in Henniker, N.H. Morette says that birds are just like humans and get beer bellies and insists it makes them fatter, more flavorful, and juicer. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

New Hampshire turkeys fed beer for flavor, size

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks at McGill University in Montreal on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)

Al Gore: NSA guilty of ‘crimes against the U.S. Constitution’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

"EPA seems to be going out of its way during its listening tour to avoid those states that rely on coal the most for electricity," said Rep. Ed Whitfield, of Kentucky. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

EPA’s ‘listening sessions’ on new rules held in cities, skirt coal towns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Actor Boris Karloff in 1931's "Frankenstein." (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Labeling scary food

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon pushes 680 green projects, despite money woes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Residents gather near the site of multiple explosions outside the provincial headquarters of China's ruling Communist Party in Taiyuan in the nation's Shanxi province on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. The provincial government and police said the blasts, which killed one and injured eight, struck at about 7:40 a.m. local time (6:40 p.m. EST Tuesday). (AP Photo)

China bombings near Communist Party buildings leave 1 dead, 8 hurt

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Shades of Solyndra: Team Obama mum as another green energy firm went bust

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Associated Press

Hunt is on for giant rat after it kills, eats 1-year-old Yemeni boy

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times