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Corey Cogdell is a two time U.S. Olympian. She shoots trap--and she is one of the best in the world. She is also a big game hunter. And she has been pretty successful at that as well. But when it was publicized as a part of her Olympic bio that she is a hunter, hunting opponents showed their true nature in a series of vile and violent tweets. Here are just a few: "I hope that someone someday shoot your whole familly just practicing." "please go shoot yourself in the knees. YOU ANIMAL MURDERER!! you're a disgusting human being." "kill...

Some virtues are by accidents of history associated with utopianism, hostility to private property, anti-clericalism, and other core beliefs of the Left. I can scandalize a yoga instructor anywhere in the world by declaring myself an avid admirer of Margaret Thatcher, though I challenge you to read the yoga sutras and conclude from them that devotees must favor an overregulated financial sector. Concern for the welfare and dignity of animals is such an issue, associated with nihilist leftists such as Peter Singer and local totalitarians who seek to regulate pets out of existence. But one need not believe that animals...

SCARBOROUGH — The Maine Police and Fire store will remain closed for several days while Scarborough police try to determine who entered the Route 1 store and ransacked it. Police said the inside walls and doors had been spray painted with messages about killing animals. Merchandise was also spray painted. A television was smashed and glass display cases were shattered. Blue paint was poured over several guns and cross bows, boxes of ammunition were dumped on the floor, and desks were overturned. The store, which sells police and fire equipment, sustained between $60,000 and $75,000 in damages.

RALEIGH North Carolina's meat industries are battling a bill the Humane Society of the United States and its vegan president say is meant to protect puppies, warning instead that it is the first step toward ending meat eating as we know it. The Humane Society has made North Carolina a top priority in the fight for tougher animal welfare laws, for the first time deploying a lobbyist to work a full session of the state legislature. Agribusiness groups predict a repeat of the tighter farm animal laws that California approved last year in a Humane Society-backed voter referendum. That measure...

Tell the NFL to Suspend Michael Vick! NFL star Michael Vick, of the Atlanta Falcons, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony dogfighting charges. Vick is charged with violating federal laws against competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting, and conducting the enterprise across state lines. In a raid conducted on April 25 and 26, local and state law enforcement officials found 70 dogs—including at least 60 pit bulls and many dogs who reportedly were neglected, scarred, and malnourished—on quarterback Vick's rural Surry County, Virginia, property. Some of the animals evidently bear scars and injuries,...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Workers at Turkish Airlines celebrated a job well done by sacrificing a camel at Istanbul airport and their boss has now been suspended. The national flag-carrier said on Wednesday maintenance staff killed the camel at Turkey's busiest airport after sending a batch of aircraft back to the supplier ahead of schedule. Turkish Airlines has suspended the head of plane maintenance pending an investigation, the company said in a statement. Turkish newspapers carried pictures of the camel, two rugs thrown over his hump, ahead of Tuesday's sacrifice. They also showed pictures of the beast chopped up into chunks...

Animal rights activists have targeted the parents of Britain's first known human victim of "rabbit flu", with telephone callers telling them his death was a "rabbit's revenge". John Freeman, 29, died after becoming infected with the bacteria pasteurella multocida after picking up a rabbit on his farm. He fell ill the next day with a fever and died three days later.

I just returned home from shopping at Wal-mart Salem NH. with my son. I couldn`t believe my eyes. The hunting department was gone. Fishing supplies where still there, however the gun racks where empty. I inquired with one of the store clerks as to what was going on , and was informed that it was a corporate decision to phase out hunting at this store. At that point i informed her that i would not shop at walmart again. I immeadiatley went home and banged out an e-mail , snail-mail, and phone call to the corporate offices of walmart. I...

Please sign the online petition to stop the killing of pets in New Orleans. Conflicting reports abound, regarding whether orders have been given to shoot abandoned pets. But just in case it is or becomes true, please sign the online petitions below to STOP the killing: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/366281507?ltl=1126417990 And the following petition adds the words "and their pets" to the order to evacuate people from New Orleans. Please sign it also: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/840979272?ltl=1126071044

FORT WORTH - When the skinned carcass of an animal was found last year in downtown, the Humane Society asked police and the public to help find whoever committed such a seemingly cruel crime. Rewards were offered and a necropsy was conducted on the animal, thought to be a dog. It turned out to be a coyote, and it had been shot to death before being skinned. The body was found Feb. 7, 2004, at the Bank One reconstruction site. As police and animal-rights groups worked the case, a surprising revelation surfaced. "One of the construction workers at the site...

A New York bill will create a new taxpayer funded office that will fight for the animal rights movement. Assembly Bill 4306, introduced by Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, will create an Office of Advocacy for Wildlife. The office will advise and assist almost every entity in the state including the governor, legislature, local governments, and state agencies on issues that pertain to wildlife conservation. One of the office’s objectives according to the bill will be to “study, develop, encourage, and provide assistance for non-lethal management of wildlife.” This objective is a covert move to introduce anti-hunting ideas into the...

Humane USA Endorses John Kerry for President President George W. Bush has gone out of his way to attack animal advocates on his presidential campaign website Can you believe it? President George W. Bush has gone out of his way to attack animal advocates on his presidential campaign website! That’s right, in their bid for reelection to the White House, the Bush-Cheney 2004 team posted a report for hunters titled “John Kerry on Hunting,” which attacked not only the Democratic nominee, but also the entire animal protection community! The Bush-Cheney website includes these direct quotes: • “John Kerry has the...

I got this email from a fellow hunter in Ireland. He and his fellow hunters need help: Hello, My name is Pat Bell I am a member of a shooting club in Dublin Ireland. At the club we obey a paper target / sils only law, but away from the club a few of us participate in the usual vermin control that farmers require. I am particularly Employed (for no payment) to a number of farmers in the Co Wicklow area, In order to control the abundance of fox that inhabits the land. My methods include Lamping / Night Vision...

[EXCERPT from Release}Black Bear A six-day, black bear, special permit hunting season is proposed for the area of New Jersey north of Interstate Route 78 and west of Interstate Route 287 for December 8-13, 2003 with a bag limit of one bear of either sex and any age. Hunting hours will be ½ hour before sunrise until ½ hour after sunset. Black bears may not be taken from dens or within 300 feet of a baited area. Black bears may be taken by stand hunting, still-hunting, or drive hunting with shotgun with rifled slugs or muzzleloader rifle.The Fish and Game...

Film of the Week: 'The Hunted' By Steve Sailer UPI National Correspondent From the Life & Mind Desk Published 3/13/2003 11:28 AM LOS ANGELES, March 13 (UPI) -- There's an article of faith among Republican pundits that everyone in Hollywood is a pacifist feminist wimp. Yet, you sure wouldn't guess that from going to the movies lately. For example, "The Hunted," starring Tommy Lee Jones, is the most primordial blood and guts action movie about an aging Special Operations warrior named "L.T." who must fight his way out of the woods since ... well, since last week's "Tears of...

Earlier this summer I was discussing with a pillar of county society the effects of a ban on hunting. We were at a county showground, and he pointed to the ring where hounds parade each year and are awarded prizes. ‘These ****s say they want to stop cruelty to animals. We will have no choice but to put the hounds down. They can’t be domesticated. All they know to do is hunt. So immediately after the ban, we bring 50 couple of them here, to this ring, and shoot them. How will the antis feel about it then?’ It was...

The names, addresses and phone numbers of more than a hundred British pro-hunting advocates have been published on the Internet by an anti-hunting group that says the hunters "deserve everything that's coming to them." The list included several prominent British pro-hunting activists, celebrities and members of the royal family. Access to the Urban Alliance webpage was blocked, however, after reports of the "hit list" surfaced earlier this week. Before the site went down, the Urban Alliance posted names of hunters and urged supporters to "hunt them down and give them a piece of their own medicine." "Excellent stuff. The only...

KITTERY — A controversial referendum to ban hunting in the 72-acre Town Farm Forest was soundly defeated Tuesday. The vote was 1,093 to 396. "I think we have made our point," said Town Councilor Mark Sousa, among those in favor of hunting in the forest. Residents had voted against changing the ordinance that governs the forest on two previous occasions. Nancy Bogenberger, a member of Kittery Wildlife Friends, was upset by the results. "Evil thrives when good men do nothing, and I think the people of Kittery did nothing," she said. Members of Kittery Wildlife Friends, led by Sue Johnson,...

Quacks on the Water Anti-hunters in Washington state attempted to disrupt the waterfowl season opener at the Crescent Lake Wildlife Area south of Monroe last October. They brought along a seven-foot-tall yellow duck decoy, clarinets and shotguns—which they fired in a steady barrage—to prevent legitimate hunters from taking any ducks. Did their plan work? Not exactly. Migrating ducks hadn’t shown yet because of the mild weather and neither had the duck hunters. The antis did, however, put on a magnificent display of unsafe gun handling by peppering a number of pheasant hunters in a nearby field with shot. As for...