By Jeff Knox

The growing dissatisfaction of more and more citizens with the direction of our government and our nation presents a wonderful opportunity for rights activists to build and strengthen coalitions and grow the movement's base. The media, the administration, and Democrat leaders have broadly attempted to discredit and dismiss several large "right-wing" groups of dissatisfied and concerned citizens by lumping them all together with racist, anti-Semitic, and seditious groups and individuals.

Doing this is an unfair and inaccurate distortion which does do some damage in the short run, but it also serves to drive these mainstream activists together into a more unified front. There are always "kooks" and "undesirables" inserting themselves into any populist movement, whether "right-wing," "left-wing," or "centrist," but "lunatic fringe" aside, the core groups are discovering that they have much in common and they are beginning to coalesce into a broad-based, cooperative coalition which is becoming a powerful political force.

Bu Chad D. Baus

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that thieves stole nearly $30,000 worth of guns, knives and ammunition during a break-in Monday at the Black Wing Shooting Center in Delaware, and the county sheriff is asking for citizens' help to recover the stolen property.