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http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2016/01/qa-donald-trump-on-guns-hunting-and-conservation?src=SOC&dom=tw "AL: I'd like to talk about public land. Seventy percent of hunters in the West hunt on public lands managed by the federal government. Right now, there's a lot of discussion about the federal government transferring those lands to states and the divesting of that land. Is that something you would support as President? " "DT: I don't like the idea because I want to keep the lands great, and you don't know what the state is going to do. I mean, are they going to sell if they get into a little bit of trouble? And I don't...

Obama has begun discreet talks with Iran, Syria by Sylvie Lanteaume – Sat Jan 31, 9:54 pm ET Featured Topics: Barack Obama Presidential Transition … WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP. ...

Hello, I'd like to welcome everyone to my new BLOG. It's mission is to: 1. Make sure the public is aware of the words and deeds of the most powerful Democrats in Washington. People like Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Charlie Rangel, and Alcee Hastings have long, long track records of lunacy that were buried prior to this last election. We need to take those words and deeds and make sure people are reminded of them. 2. Much as been made of the conservative leanings of the Democratic winners from this last election cycle. We are told that they are pro-life,...

Today's post concerns the recent Israeli retreat from Gaza. While this has been a hotly debated move by Sharon, it reflects, in my opinion, a positive view of Bush and the War on Terror. What I mean by that statement is that Sharon would never have pulled back from the Gaza if he did not think that the US was making progress in the WOT and if he did not trust Bush to support him if (and when) the Palestinian attempt to push the envelope. Tactically, this move has several near term implications. One, it moves the Israeli defense back...

Published August 17, 2005 Some distant day, when students curl up with their history books to learn about the U.S. invasion of Iraq, they will read about the moment when the tide of public opinion turned. That's the cliche the history book will use: "The tide of public opinion turned." And I'm guessing that the rest of the phrase will be "around August 2005." It's hard to detect a turning tide, even a tide that laps at your shoes. "Is the tide coming in or going out?" a friend said not long ago as we walked along an ocean. We...

by Austin Bay March 28, 2003 How long will the war last? Lieutenant-General William Wallace, US Army commander in the Persian Gulf, gave this assessment March 27: "The enemy we’re fighting is a bit different than the one we wargamed against, because of these (fedayeen) paramilitary forces." My translation: US war planners didn’t anticipate extensive death squad tactics. Military staffs use "game" techniques, experience, and current intelligence data to examine friendly and enemy combat options. They attempt to "see the battle as our enemy sees it and fight the battle his way, not our way." Goals include spurring creative thinking...

FRIDAY JUNE 15 2001 Europe vents its anger against Bush FROM MARTIN FLETCHER IN GOTHENBURG AND GILES WHITTELL IN MOSCOW PRESIDENT BUSH last night faced attacks from around the world over his policies on global warming and missile defence as he signally failed to win over European leaders on his maiden trip across the Atlantic. At a summit in the port city of Gothenburg he and European Union leaders failed to bridge their deep divisions over how to combat global warming, agreeing only to seek ways of resuming co-operation in that battle following America’s rejection of the 1997 Kyoto accords. ...

Here's what terrifies Chicago's political class, those hefty boys who feed out of City Hall and their equally hungry cousins in Springfield. What frightens them finally arrived Sunday. And here is what he told me: "I have no relatives in Chicago. No close friends. None. Zero." The words belong to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who was introduced at the Federal Building as the next U.S. attorney of the Northern District of Illinois. U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, of Illinois, recommended Fitzgerald, of New York, for the post of top prosecutor. They are not related. But the Fitzgeralds do have something in common. ...

Sting says Pinochet has chance to seek forgiveness MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - British rock star Sting, honored by Chile for defending human rights, said on Tuesday the legal process against Augusto Pinochet could allow the ex-dictator to ask Chileans to pardon him for state brutality. On Monday a judge in Chile issued a new house arrest order against Pinochet on charges of murder and kidnapping of leftists during his 1973-1990 dictatorship. ``I am very close to the mothers of the disappeared, and this process is going to give (Pinochet) the opportunity to tell what happened and ask forgiveness,'' Sting, 49, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Twelve Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee urged independent counsel Robert Ray in a letter Thursday to turn over his investigation of President Bill Clinton to the Justice Department. Ray has said he would announce shortly whether he will ask a sitting grand jury to indict the president in the Monica Lewinsky scandal after Clinton leaves office. Although Ray is thought to be leaning against an indictment, there is even less enthusiasm in the incoming Bush administration for a Clinton prosecution on the same grounds that brought the president's impeachment in late 1998 and ...

WASHINGTON — No partisans are more eager to derail the Bush nomination of John Ashcroft than high officials of the Clinton Justice Department. They much prefer someone who will not flip over the flat rock of the blocked prosecution of heavy Clinton contributors.

Spaniards file lawsuits against US tobacco giants BARCELONA: Cancer patients seeking funding for rehabilitation centres filed the first two of a series of 14 planned class-action suits on Wednesday against tobacco companies that include US giants R J Reynolds and Philip Morris. The suits were filed in Barcelona and the northern city of Leon by associations representing Spaniards who underwent laryngectomies, or surgical removal of the voice box, after years of smoking. In the case of Barcelona the plaintiffs are seeking a lump-sum payment of 500 million pesetas ($2.8 million) to move from an overcrowded facility they rent in Spain's ...

Bush Says Worried About Slowing U.S. Economy Reuters Photo AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - President-elect George W. Bush (news - web sites) said on Friday he was worried about a slowdown in the U.S. economy, adding that Vice President-elect Dick Cheney (news - web sites) had echoed his own concerns when talking earlier this month about the risk of a recession. ``People are concerned about the economy. I think there is concern about some of the manufacturing base,'' Bush told reporters in Austin, Texas, adding that high energy prices and weakening demand for automobiles were also warning signs about the future ...

The media is already starting the heavy spin that the SC has lost legitimacy, that the victory for Bush will be questioned, and that the public may not accept the court's decision - all the while they are tossing in the florida race question. Republicans have to be strong in getting the message out about the decision, making certain that people understand what was happening with these counts, and that the whole racial component of this state vote has been created and nurtured by the Democrats themselves.

Dear Mr. President-elect: Congratulations on having survived one of the longest counts in presidential history. You have a lot to do between now and Jan. 20, but don't let the press of time or the temptations of politics distract you from the only task that matters: getting as much as you can of the program you campaigned on through the Congress. Your first temptation will be to play politics with the dying embers of the Clinton administration. Don't do it. There are a lot of pardons coming, to the likes of Webb Hubbell, Susan McDougal, former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker ...

December 5, 2000 Rohatyn for Treasury Secretary! Memo To: George W. Bush From: Jude Wanniski Re: A Democrat at Treasury Send this memo to a friend. I saw in The New York Times that you and Dick Cheney are considering the possibility of naming a Democrat to serve as Treasury Secretary in a Bush administration. The report from Austin said you raised the idea with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Denny Hastert, and they said they did not like the idea at all. I didn’t either, but then it dawned on me that Felix Rohatyn, our current ...

Deli owners kick out pair over views November 11, 2000 BY ART GOLAB STAFF REPORTER The presidential shootout claimed Chicago casualties this week, when a deli in Rogers Park banned a couple of customers because of their supposedly strident Republican beliefs. Kim Blair said she went Thursday night to the Deluxe Deli at 1117 W. Granville to pick up sandwiches for dinner. Instead, one of the owners asked her to leave. The owners, Bil Wood and Larry Roney, say they have nothing against Republicans, but that Blair and her boyfriend have been particularly obnoxious in expressing Republican views. "With what's ...

Just to let people know, McLaughlin is discussing the Gore/Russia arms deal in detail. Finally, someone is talking about this!!!

Just got done watching the news tonight and being subjected to a nasty string of ads paid for by the Missouri Democratic Party talking about Social Security and using the now tired Al Gore path of telling us: 1. a trillion dollars taken out. 2. they show a young afluent looking woman and a poor older looking woman 3. Then tell us that only one of them will have the promise kept for them. It's definitely back to scare the seniors for Al Gore and the Dems. I'm in KC, and I haven't seen any Bush ads here. Is he ...