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This excursion wasn't as exciting as other excursions had been, but it was okay. And it served its purpose; as mentioned elsewhere and everywhere else, when I was a little lad, I had been deeply impressed by an eastern European Yiddish folk-tale, in which it was shown that if one spends New Year's Eve under the roof of, and accepts the hospitality of, a poor man, God makes one rich in the coming year. Being single with no dependents, no responsibilities other than cats, no bills, no commitments, no hard-and-fast "office hours," I can do things like this.

Remington to Sever Sponsorship Ties with Jim Zumbo Madison, North Carolina – As a result of comments made by Mr. Jim Zumbo in recent postings on his blog site, Remington Arms Company, Inc., has severed all sponsorship ties with Mr. Zumbo effective immediately. While Mr. Zumbo is entitled to his opinions and has the constitutional right to freely express those opinions, these comments are solely his, and do not reflect the views of Remington. “Remington has spent tens of millions of dollars defending our Second Amendment rights to privately own and possess firearms and we will continue to vigorously fight...

The owner of The Dish Network said Thursday it pulled the Outdoor Life Network from its system after the cable channel failed to provide NHL games to the nation's second-largest satellite television provider. EchoStar Communications Corp. spokesman Marc Lumpkin said the network did not show games on Oct. 10-11 and on Monday and Tuesday as advertised. "We were not given advance notice that they would not show the programming," he said. Although best known for broadcasting the Tour de France and cyclist Lance Armstrong, OLN this fall took over broadcasting National Hockey League games on cable from ESPN, a unit...

Brit Hume just covered Kerry's quote in Outdoor Life magazine about owning a communist rifle to remind him of his M-16 that saved his life in Vietnam. Brit says that it turns out that the magazine never interviewed Kerry. Instead, they sent out a questionnaire. The Kerry campaign now says that Kerry did not answer the questions, but a campaign staffer answered for him. The staffer is to blame.

Does Sen. John F. Kerry really own a "Communist Chinese assault rifle," as he suggested in an interview in the latest edition of Outdoor Life magazine? ... it is legally registered, and how did he get it into the United States? ..."Senator Kerry's own words once again trip him up in an apparent hypocrisy," SAF (Second Amendment Foundation) Founder Alan Gottlieb said in a press release.

In the episode, "The Executive Pond", host Roland Martin joins President George W. Bush and Barney for a half hour of Bass fishing in Crawford, Texas, on the president's personally designed 10 acre pond. The episode will air on The Outdoor Life network on Friday, August 6th @ 8:00pm ET/PT.

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) skipped a scheduled fishing outing Saturday morning to deal with the Iraq (news - web sites) crisis, but his catch the day before was something to brag about. "He took the biggest one of the day," a bass nearly four pounds, said Roland Martin, host of the Outdoor Life Network program, "Fishing with Roland Martin."

CRAWFORD, Texas - Amid fresh violence in Iraq, President Bush discussed military operations Friday with national security aides and with three foreign leaders who have sent troops. Bush spoke by phone with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and Francisco Flores of El Salvador. Nearly 3,000 Italian troops and paramilitary police are serving in Iraq, 2,400 Polish and 380 Salvadoran. Seventeen Italians have died in Iraq and one soldier each from El Salvador and Poland. Bush discussed "the current situation in Iraq" with the men, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "All four leaders reaffirmed their...

Outdoor Life Network will carry coverage of the Running of the Bulls on tape delay each night in prime-time on cable and satellite:Running of the Bulls July 7 from 7-8pm ET, July 8-15 from 7:30-8pm ET, July 16 from 7-8pm ETIf you thought the action in the Peleton was fierce, it's nothing compared to the thunderous sounds of 1800-pound beasts chasing you for a half mile through the narrow streets of Pamplona. You won't want to miss coverage of the 2003 Running of the Bulls. OLN presents all of the exhilarating action from the Fiesta de San Fermin.