By Tim Inwood

During the Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama told gun owners we had nothing to fear from him. Most of us did not believe him. Now that he is President, his actions have shown we were right to doubt him.

Since February, the true intent of the Obama administration has become very clear. They intend to ban self-loading firearms and high capacity magazines. Within a month of taking the Presidential oath of office, and swearing (but not on the Bible) he would defend the Constitution of the United States, his Attorney General, Eric Holder, has waged a new war against the Second Amendment.

Holder has been demanding Congress bring back the Clinton semiautomatic firearms ban, purportedly to stop the drug-related violence in Mexico. The premise behind this demand is a piece of fiction, as a recent story published by FOXNews.com proves.

By Chad D. Baus

As Buckeye Firearms Association reported recently, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. Instead, since 1998, PETA has opted to "put down" 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

As the CCF points out, PETA's hypocrisy isn't difficult to understand: Killing adoptable cats and dogs – and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated – requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted.

And it now appears we know what they've been saving their money for: filling potholes in the City of Cleveland.