It is equally great news for the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which has been under legislative assault in Congress.

Friday, in a 47-minute address, the Prime Minister summed up the ideological aims of this legislative assault on Britain's 40-year tradition of welfarism.

If the current strategy of heavy-handed legal and legislative assaults becomes financially untenable, collective licensing might finally begin looking like a viable alternative to the content creation industries.

They should not be constantly subjected to the kind of verbal attacks and legislative assaults we have seen over the past couple of years.

Today, if we were faced with a full-blown legislative assault, we simply would not have the war chest.

By contrast, the Bush administration has been averse to any legislative assault on climate change.

The commission first proposed the new rules in a series of reports last year, and to blunt a legislative assault, European airlines have begun hammering out their own passenger-rights charter.

The fate of the grizzlies should remind us all how effective the Endangered Species Act really is and why it is worth safeguarding it from legislative assault.

A legislative assault on Oregon's ban withered last year.