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Wolves kill hunting dogs near Dent Bridge Mike Stockton, guide for Reggear Outfitters, was conducting a hunt Tuesday morning, Jan. 11, around 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the Cranberry Creek/Elk Creek area northeast of Dent Bridge when he says three of his hunting dogs were killed by wolves. A fourth is being treated at the vet for bite wounds to his hind quarters. According to Stockton, the vet documented the dog’s wounds as inflicted by an animal of at least one hundred pounds. Stockton and Travis Reggear (Outfitter owner) were on Baldy Road, on the other side of Dent Bridge, running bobcat....

ISSUE REPUBLICAN POSITION DEMOCRAT POSITION  War on Terror / Iraq  Root out and destroy terrorist groups wherever found! Nations that harbor or support terrorists "face the full wrath" of the United States. No “U.N. Permission Slip” required! “Global Test” will be required seeking permission from foreign governments before any pre-emptive action protecting America… thus “Iraq is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Role of Government:  Less government / less taxes  More government / more taxes  National Defense:  Increase USA defenses. Deploy Missile Defense System as soon as possible. Increase global cooperation. Decrease USA defenses....

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Turnabout: Michael Peroutka- We're as nutty as Tom Jefferson Peroutka, of Pasadena, Md., is the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party In a recent byline article in your paper, a Mr. Patrick McGann attacked former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore and me, who he called "nuttier" than Ralph Nader. One of the things Moore was criticized for is his having said that it is because God gave us our rights that we are all equal before God. I, too, was slammed because I have said: "The purpose of government, in an American understanding, is to protect God-given...

SACRAMENTO – Saying he made a mistake months ago that would have made it easier for shelters to kill stray dogs and cats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he has reinstated the state's six-day waiting period before lost animals could be killed. As part of his budget proposal that was first drafted in December, the governor had asked the Legislature to repeal a 1998 law that requires the shelters to hold animals up to six days before destroying them. The governor wanted to save money bu cutting the waiting period in half. But after a nationwide storm of protest, the...

"Christian voters decided the 2000 election. Christian voters will decide this year’s election. + + Facts about Election 2000 In 2000, the voting age population of the United States was 203 million. According to the Barna Group, 41% of adults in 2000 were born-again Christians (see note below on how Barna identifies "born-again" individuals). But since Christian voters were more likely to vote than non-Christian voters (59% to 46%), nearly half of all votes were cast by Christian Americans. According to Barna, in the 2000 presidential election there were slightly less than 50 million Christian voters, and slightly more than...

I was recently sent a campaign finance request. It was coupled with a lovely photo of the first couple, with thanks for my support beautifully embossed beneath in gold letters followed by a pitch for a few bucks. Now getting a campaign appeal is certainly no surprise in an election year. What did surprise me is how I, a registered and quite active Democrat who has never voted GOP in my life, ended up on the GOP friends list. It turns out that the Bush fund-raising team decided my politics based on my ministerial calling. Being a Christian minister apparently...

Some of you might be wondering how my billboard project is going? So far we have not made a final decision. What do you think of this for a billboard. My 17 year old son created it tonight. We have a few other ideas to work on before my final meeting Friday. My idea is to exhort people to vote prolife. One of the partners wants to appeal to pregnant women who are making a decision. I will give Mr. Silverback the credit for suggesting the wording to me.

I am looking for ideas to put on a pro-life billboard. It is my billboard but I have included others. I want it to send a bold message, but the others might be afraid of too much controversy. I would appreciate any suggestions, or ideas. The billboard is 12ft wide, and 8ft high. It is 26 ft in the air, and lighted.

Imagine you have just purchased a two-bedroom condo in New York City. You had saved money for ten years to buy it. It is conveniently located and has a beautiful view. You plan to turn one of the bedrooms into a home office for your consulting business. You paid $300,000 for the condo, but you are thrilled to have it. After signing the check for the down payment, you are about to move in your furniture, computer, and personal effects. You hear a knock at the door. Two armed agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) want to...

By Chuck Adams American Hunter Magazine (NRA – National Rifle Association member publication) Montana resident Geri Ball stood with her fists on her hips and a knot in the pit of her stomach. At her feet were the remains of her prize female llama, entrails and unborn baby scattered across the animal’s pen. This 850-pound pregnant pet had been eaten alive by wolves from northwestern Montana’s Nine-Mile Pack. The mother llama’s screams of pain and fear had sliced through the night…but too late to save the mortally wounded animal. Hunting outfitter Bill Hoppe glassed a sweeping vista just north of...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - Lifelong rancher Charlie Jaure has seen cattle lose parts of their tails to the cold on occasion. He'd never seen them bitten off by wolves. That is, until shortly after Christmas, when Jaure lost two of his cattle to wolves north of Wamsutter. Another two were hurt badly and up to a dozen lost their tails, he said. ''I thought maybe they froze their tails,'' Jaure said. ''I got to looking, and it was all at the top of the tail.'' His wife, Kathleen, said the bones were left crushed and mangled. ''We're messing with a...

-- Elk numbers continue to plummet in the northern Yellowstone elk herd, according to a report released late Tuesday. The herd is now the smallest it's been since the 1970s. A Dec. 18 flight by state and federal biologists found 8,355 elk despite "relatively good survey conditions," which means good weather and enough snow to make elk visible from the air. That's a drop of at least 880 elk, or 9.5 percent, from last year's count of 9,215, when conditions were poor and biologists said they probably missed a lot of elk. The herd has dropped by an average of...

It is better to ban one abortion procedure — i.e., partial-birth abortion — than to ban none at all. But the magnitude of this pro-life victory should be kept in perspective. It is natural for anyone who has labored tirelessly for years in the pro-life movement to feel a sense of satisfaction that Congress has finally shown an ounce of common sense, a pennyweight of compassion, and a gram of courage. The weary soldier welcomes any victory, however small. We are referring, of course, to the long-awaited 64-34 vote in the Senate to pass the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of...

85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers - all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households. This seems to indicate that the problems children encounter are not related to single-parent households, but are related specifically to single-mother-headed households. So, should we blame the mothers or the fathers? Perhaps, neither. There is no question that father-absence has reached epidemic proportions. According to Wade Horn of the National Fatherhood Initiative, we must reverse the trend in 7 -...

Just curious,for what principals are you voting for?

I found a bunch of old books on the floor of my sisters garage. One of them is a signed copy of "Personal Memoirs of U.S Grant" and another is "The Works of Washington Irving", the Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. Both are dated 1885. Does anyone have an idea of their value, or where would I go to idea?

POCATELLO — Daren Jensen doesn't understand how Utah authorities can call him a fugitive or a kidnapper. Michael Brandy, The Jensen family never "fled" Utah. They were in Idaho for a "last fling" family gathering at the time a juvenile court issued an order placing Parker Jensen, 12, in state custody, he told the Deseret Morning News on Saturday. "We were in Idaho and on our way for Parker's medical evaluation at the clinic we picked in Houston," Daren Jensen said by phone in his first media interview since the state filed kidnapping charges against him. "Then (my attorney) called...

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Studs Terkel believes that Americans suffer from “national Alzheimers disease.” The contemporary American historian has spent eight decades interviewing thousands of the “blue collar” people who seek, and live, the American Dream. He regrets that Americans ignore the lessons of history as though they did not exist. He wonders whether, in so doing, “Are we courting death?” His words are appropriate as we turn our thoughts to a great American founder, Benjamin Franklin. The lesson of history is that Franklin, and his revolutionary cohorts, created this nation because they believed that liberty could survive only where individual rights were paramount,...