http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/04/09/new...

Conservatives have it in for fruit flies. On Friday, Sarah Palin said fruit fly research in France had “little or nothing to do with the public interest.” Turns out a conservative fiscal watchdog group had highlighted the program, which is designed to study a pest that threatens California’s olive groves, as a pork-barrel waste of money.

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