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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I will fight to keep our military out of unconstitutional foreign missions such as Somalia and Bosnia, plus outlaw U.N. control over U.S. troops...
Like a growing number of hunters, Fritchman has joined cause with animal-rights activists like the Humane Society to reform hunting practices. He heads the Idaho Coalition United for Bears (I-CUB), which is pushing a November ballot initiative to outlaw baiting and hounding bears as well as stalking them in the spring, when sows emerge from their dens with newborn cubs. This fall, hunting- and wildlife-related measures are on the ballot in several states (see chart). Those determined to reform hunting practices have resorted to popular referendums because the legislative committees and regulatory commissions that oversee hunting...
...three-fourths of Americans approve of hunting, 62% believe that many hunters violate hunting laws or engage in unsafe or unethical practices, a three-year study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found. In fact, a majority of hunters oppose the very practices that reformers are seeking to outlaw, according to a 1992 study by Idaho's fish and game department. Says Jim Posewitz, founder of the Orion Institute, a hunters' group promoting reform: "Unless we address some of these practices that work to erode the concept of fair play, they will be addressed...
Long ago in China, Knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been order outlaw knot-maker...
...started having some doubts. Maybe that wasn't Elizabeth Dole. Maybe I'd fallen asleep while watching the Tonight Show and dreamed that Elizabeth Dole, snapping under the strain of having remained that focused for that long, had donated 38 ladylike suits to Goodwill Industries and become an outlaw biker. Maybe I was suffering from what my mother used to call an overactive imagination...