Posted on 08/05/2009 9:45:50 AM PDT by neverdem
President Obama's choice to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs had Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, so upset that he blocked it - a move that puts only a temporary hold on the appointment. Now the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, a hunter advocacy group, says American sportsmen need to step in to make sure the block stays in place.
According to the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, Cass Sunstein supports animal rights. This is an important office that has the authority to block rules, including those that protect hunting and conservation. The pro-hunting organization says Sunstein has mentioned the possibility that hunting could be banned altogether if its sole purpose is human recreation.
There's no way of knowing how Maryland's senators, Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin, both Democrats and normally supportive of the president's appointees, will react to Sunstein's nomination. The same holds for Virginia's two senators, Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner, also Democrats. But it probably wouldn't hurt to let them and your house representatives know how you feel about having an animal rightist in a position to seriously affect hunting and massive conservation programs funded by recreational hunters.
Maryland optimistic on waterfowl - Breeding among the ducks in eastern Canada, the north-central United States and the prairie region of Canada was so good this year that the fall migration could be very busy. As a result, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is proposing a 60-day duck season with a six-bird bag limit for 2009-10. Because of tremendous increases in the canvasback and scaup population, hunters might include two scaup and one canvasback per day. The proposal has to be approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Nada. They have a decent column on the effects of the war on some drugs, but then they endorse Sonia Sotomayor in the next two commentaries.
Does this mean that animals needing $4,000 in surgery will also be elligible for socialized medicine?
Not in Canada, but they don't prohibit you from paying for it.
Obama is applying the Alinsky manual again.
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