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PETA can't afford to save pets, but offers to pay to fix Cleveland's potholes

12:05am Friday, April 10, 2009

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...

As Americans get to know the man they elected, guns & ammo grow scarce

12:10am Thursday, April 09, 2009

By Chad D. Baus When Governor Ted Strickland (then a Congressman) took John Kerry goose hunting during the 2004 Presidential campaign, we recognized it for what it was - an obligatory photo op by a popular pro-gun Democrat to help a fellow anti-gun Democrat look less dangerous. It didn't work because, well, we all remember Obama's "lipstick on a pig" reference about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin,...

Shooting range protection - The noisy wheel gets the shaft

12:05am Thursday, April 09, 2009

By Jeff Knox Range protection is a hot topic these days and it's becoming more important every day. Urban sprawl continues to envelope ranges and traditional shooting areas, pushing shooters farther and farther out to engage in their sport and training. Developers build houses closer and closer to established ranges and soon the new residents are complaining about the noise. While much of the...

City of Strongsville, OH bans gun sales in homes

12:10am Wednesday, April 08, 2009

By Jim Irvine The City of Strongsville, Ohio has recently passed a new ordinance that bans the selling of any firearms, or part of a firearm or ammunition, or manufacture of any of the above in areas that are zoned residential. The ordinance reads in part: 1252.36 Prohibited uses. Nothwithstanding (sic) anything in this Chapter 1252 to the contrary, the sale or manufacture for sale of a firearm,...

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Ohio hunter's weight-loss plan pays off with hefty wild boar

12:05am Wednesday, April 08, 2009

The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette has published an interesting article about an Ohio man's weight-loss plan that paid off with a recent successful hunt for wild boar in Hocking County. From the story : Goodfellow walked the hills of Zaleski State Forest looking for an opportunity to harvest the wild pigs - which have been called and are the same as feral swine, European wild boar, Russian wild boar and...

Media peddles the "You might be a potential crazy mass murderer if..." list while ignoring real clues

12:10am Tuesday, April 07, 2009

By Chad D. Baus I spent the weekend away from access to news media, so upon my return home, if anyone asked me what I had been up to, I would have said: "I spent the weekend at a shooting range with about 80 fellow Second Amendment supporters. We were attending a fundraiser for a political action committee (Buckeye Firearms Association) that seeks to defend our Constitutional right to keep and...

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

12:05am Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Hypocritical Animal Rights Group's 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339 WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) 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 years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills...

The gun banners' forgotten push for open carry in Ohio

12:10am Monday, April 06, 2009

By Chad D. Baus In a recent editorial entitled "Gun Lobby Working Overtime to Normalize Abnormal Behavior," the Joyce Foundation's anti-gun blog "GunGuys" asked if readers would be willing to "sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you?" But before they chide gun rights activists for advocating the practice of open carry,...