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Shares have increased by 95% in the last year and are up more than 70% already in 2013. That makes Cabela’s stock the best-performing in the firearms industry and one of the top-performing stocks in the U.S. in the last year. The company’s two biggest shareholders, founders Richard and James Cabela, have seen the value of their combined 25% stake jump to $1.2 billion from $750 million at the start of 2013. About one-third of Cabela’s $3.1 billion in sales last year came from firearms, ammunition and accessories, and a substantial amount of its all-important sales growth came from its...

The City of Miami says it plans to give $150,000 to a civilian patrol group known as the Peacemakers, to be run by the Progressive Land Development International, an organization that shares a mailing address with the Nation of Islam in Miami. ... While the Peacemakers say they are not officially affiliated with the Nation of Islam, the group is headed by Rasul Muhammad, a prominent Nation of Islam member and the son of former leader Elijah Muhammad, and its corporate offices are at the group's Miami mosque

On March 12, 1975, Democrat Rep. (now Senator and Presidential candidate) Chris Dodd from Connecticut stated on the floor of the U.S. House: “The greatest gift our country can give the Cambodian people is not guns but peace. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now.” The American Congress cut off all military aid to Cambodia and South Vietnam. This is what happened one month and five days later as a result of Chris Dodd’s and other Democrats’ “gift of peace”: On April 17th, 1975 the Khmer Rouge, a communist guerrilla group led by...

TORONTO, Canada (The Catholic Register) – Quaker and Christian Peacemaker Teams leader Tom Fox was remembered by Christians and Muslims together at a Mass in a Baghdad Roman Catholic parish March 12, the Sunday after his body was found. *snip* "We observed the human-rights abuses of the American armed forces and the chaos that the people were living through. And this time, with the kidnapping and the ultimate death of Tom Fox, I started to realize that we had shifted from being observers to being actual participants, victims, whatever you like."

In the days of Saddam Hussein, the Church of England's representative in the Middle East used to make the 12-hour trip every few weeks. Iraq was, he thought at the time, as bad as could be: stunted and cowed by tyranny...... What have we done? This week, Colin Powell's former chief of staff accused Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld et al of "daydreaming", and perhaps he is right. It is easy to say, looking back, that the principle was good but the practice was bungled......

5/19/2005 - FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFPN) -- Five numbers painted on the tail of a local parade’s float will pass by thousands of people, and they may not see what is between them. A string of numbers can represent anything from how much money someone has in his or her bank account, to phone numbers or even ZIP codes. 71424 represents the life and love of a father. Capt. Richard Doughty originally flew B-36 Peacemakers before becoming a navigator on KC-135 Stratotankers at Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas, in the late 1960s. In May 1966 he had many...

At Christmas, our thoughts turn toward the Prince of Peace. Christ was born in the Middle East, a place that has known little peace. Today our brave men and women are working with our Allies to achieve real peace in the World, a peace that can only come with the defeat of evil people of bad will. Achieving peace with one’s neighbor, when they are of good will, is one thing. Achieving peace with evil people is an entirely different situation. We should learn from the fact that Christ did not try to appease Satan nor waste time fretting about...

UNITED NATIONS - The United States and three peacemaking partners called Tuesday for "responsible and accountable" Palestinian leaders who would crack down on terrorists and welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s proposal to withdraw from Gaza. The statement, issued after a 2 1/2-hour meeting at the United Nations (news - web sites) hosted by Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), drew Palestinian criticism and Israeli praise. The Palestinians' U.N. observer, Nasser Al-Kidwa, said the United States dominated the deliberations, which issued a statement that amounted to nothing more than "mumbling that could mean anything." By...

ROME - A top Vatican (news - web sites) official sought Wednesday to downplay the Vatican's opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq (news - web sites), saying it only objected to the means of disarming Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), not the ends.   French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican foreign minister during the war, stressed the Vatican did indeed oppose the conflict and thought U.N. weapons inspections should have been allowed to continue. But he said Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II shared Washington's ultimate aims in Iraq. "The Holy See is not pacifist," he...

Midland Ministers to the World By George Neumayr Published 12/8/2003 12:07:07 AM The city of Midland—once the mid-point between El Paso and Fort Worth on the Texas & Pacific Railroad—sits on the oil-rich plains of West Texas. The terrain, mostly sand and shrubbery, is flat and empty save for oil pumps, derricks, wind mills, and homes as horizontal as the ground. Geologists describe the Midland region as a dead sea. Over millions of years the sea receded and became a desert. The vast oil deposits in Midland's Permian Basin—the second largest oil reservoir in America after Alaska's Prudhoe Bay—come from...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 30, 2003Release Number: 03-12-74 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE “ALL-AMERICAN” UNCOVERS WEAPONS AR RAMADI, Iraq – The 82nd Airborne Division and its subordinate units, also known as Task Force “All American,” continued missions yesterday to stop violence and provide security for residents of the Al Anbar province. During the last 24 hours, the 82nd Airborne Division and subordinate elements conducted 193 patrols, 33 of which were joint patrols with Iraqis, and carried out two offensive operations. These operations resulted...

CJTF-7 Public AffairsBAGHDAD, IraqRelease #031228i Soldiers adopt village with educational results MOSUL, Iraq – The children and schools of one northern Iraqi village have benefited by being adopted by soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). The soldiers of Crusader Battery, 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment, attached to the 101st, adopted the small Assyrian-Christian village of Karmless and began Operation Provide Classroom Comfort when they saw the deplorable conditions in the village’s schools. “Classrooms were in a state of disaster and by any American building code standard would have been condemned,” said Capt. Mark Sherkey, company commander. The condition...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 29, 2003Release Number: 03-12-73 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE “ALL-AMERICAN” SOLDIERS CAPTURE SUSPECTED IED MAKER, CONFISCATE WEAPONS AR RAMADI, Iraq – The 82nd Airborne Division and its subordinate units continued missions over the last day to bring peace and prosperity to the residents of the Al Anbar province. During the last 24 hours, the 82nd Airborne Division and subordinate elements conducted 192 patrols, 35 of which were joint patrols with Iraqis, and carried out three offensive operations. These...

Just two weeks ago, Utahn James Mayfield was conducting a focus group in Basra, Iraq, trying to determine how people there felt about the U.S. plan to end the occupation of their country next year as an Iraqi government takes control. James Mayfield has just returned home from Iraq, where he taught democracy classes run by the United States. Scott G. Winterton, Deseret Morning News However, the work being done by Mayfield — a University of Utah emeritus professor recruited by the United States to introduce south-central Iraq to democracy — was interrupted when news reached the Basra streets that...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 29, 2003Release Number: 03-12-72 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 101ST BATTLES SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN NORTHERN IRAQ MOSUL, Iraq – Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) fought suspected members of the Ansar Al Islam terrorist group Dec. 28 in the city of Mosul during a cordon and knock operation.When the soldiers attempted to enter the home the suspects engaged them with small arms fire and one grenade. The unit returned fire, then entered and cleared the...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 29, 2003Release Number: 03-12-71 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FIVE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTY ROCKETS CONFISCATED TIKRIT, Iraq – An Iraqi citizen provided information to U.S. Air Force airmen concerning a large weapons cache that he said consisted of close to six hundred rockets. The Air Force in turn asked the U.S. Army for assistance. Air Force personnel and a patrol from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment went to the identified site in the evening of Dec. 27 to investigate. The intelligence acquired suggested...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   December 28, 2003Release Number: 03-12-70 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FIRST AMERICAN AIRCRAFT LANDS IN KERMAN, IRAN COMBINED AIR OPERATIONS CENTER, QATAR: Just after midnight local time, the first American aircraft landed in Kerman, Iran, with 20 pallets of humanitarian aid destined for the earthquake-stricken residents of Bam. Five pallets laden with such medical supplies as intravenous fluids, bandages, gauze, and surgical equipment, plus food and purified water comprised the first load of American relief support. American airmen and Iranian soldiers...

Dec 28, 7:30 AM ESTBaghdad Blast Kills U.S. Soldier, 2 KidsBy JIM KRANEAssociated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and two children in Baghdad on Sunday, a day after a coordinated guerrilla onslaught in the southern city of Karbala left 13 dead and almost 200 injured.The Baghdad blast also injured five U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter as well as eight members of the Iraqi civil defense corps, said U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Compton of the Army's 1st Armored Division.All the U.S. casualties were from the Army's 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which were...

Thailand Vows to Keep Its Forces in Iraq

Dec 27, 2:47 PM ESTBounty Offered for 12 Iraq Fugitives By JIM KRANEAssociated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's U.S.-led administration is putting bounties of $1 million each on the heads of 12 remaining fugitives from the coalition's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis, officials said Saturday.Administrators already are offering $10 million for information leading to the capture or death of the 13th remaining fugitive - Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a senior official in the former regime and a Saddam Hussein confidant who now is the most wanted man in the country.The 55 most-wanted Iraqis were emblazoned on a deck...