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AP: Glitch identifies Amazon reviewers

February 14, 2004 The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Many sign their names. Many don't. They're the book reviewers on Amazon.com who use such words as "masterful," "page-turner" and "tear-jerker." But the ones who sign their critiques only as "a reader from (fill in the city)" lost their anonymity this week when their identities were revealed on Amazon.com's Canadian Web site. Among those named...

Port Clinton rapist prompts ''Safety Awareness Rally''

February 16, 2004 Port Clinton News Herald (click for the full story) PORT CLINTON -- Many women across the city are worried and fearful of the unidentified Port Clinton rapist, who has broken into homes and attacked victims twice over the past month. In response, organizers are planning a "Safety Awareness Rally" Tuesday night with local law enforcement officials to try to empower the public...

Sheriff's office looking at CHL list inaccuracies

IMPORTANT NOTE: The following parody was adapted from a recently-published Ohio news story about reports of significant errors in the Attorney General's new sex offender database (the original story may be accessed by clicking here ). Very few words were changed. Since some liberal newspaper editors are promising to publish the lists of law-abiding citizens who choose to bear arms for self-...

Tale of Two Cities: Toledo couple dead; Sacramento woman shoots intruder

February 11, 2004 Toledo Blade Man, wife found dead in home in N. Toledo Police probe deaths as possible slayings A man and his wife were found dead last night in their house at 1405 North Erie St. in North Toledo, and police were investigating their deaths as possible homicides. Police declined to release the names of the victims. However, neighbors identified them as Anthony and Tammy Griffin...

If Toby Hoover was Chief Executive Officer...

IMPORTANT NOTE: The following parody, by OFCC's Rick Jones, was adapted from a recently-published Ohio news story about a woman who says she is being discriminated against at work because of her religious beliefs (the original story may be accessed by clicking here ). Very few words were changed. Since some gun ban extremists like Toby Hoover are encouraging people not to "hire, socialize, or...

Gun owner: I, not cops, got bad guy

Jan. 22, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Three days after Christmas, someone broke into the DeMar family home in Wilmette through a dog door, stealing a television, an SUV and the keys to the home. The next night, Hale DeMar was prepared for a return visit. With his children upstairs, DeMar, 54, shot burglar Morio Billings, 31, in the shoulder and calf, police said. Billings was caught at a nearby...

Skeptic Gives Guns a Shot

The firearms issue looks a little different from behind the trigger. COMMENTARY By Diana Wagman Guns are bad. All my life, it's been that simple. At my son's preschool, if a child pointed a banana and said "bang," he was admonished to "use the banana in a happier way." As far as I was concerned, the 2nd Amendment gave us the right to protect ourselves against invading armies, not the right to buy...

Akron: Burglar suing officer who shot him

Jan. 16, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Convicted felon says he was surrendering when Akron officer fired gun Police union says suit has no merit A man shot during a break-in last January filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming the Akron police officer who opened fire had no reason to do so. In his suit in Summit County Common Pleas Court, Christopher Sample says he followed officer Jason Bailey's orders...

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