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Cincinnati's Xavier University has graduate competing on U.S. Olympic shooting team

3:00pm Thursday, July 05, 2012
by Chad D. Baus The Cincinnati Enquirer reported recently that Jason Parker, a 1996 Xavier graduate, has earned a spot on his fourth U.S. Olympic shooting team and will compete in the 50-meter Rifle Three Position event Aug.6 at the Royal Artillery Barracks in London. The seven-time All-American is hoping to medal for the first time.

Travel Channel Features Scioto Co. Machine Gun Shoot

7:00am Tuesday, July 03, 2012
WOUB, Ohio University's public broadcasting station, reported recently that "a rather unconventional event" in southeast Ohio is the focus of the season finale of a show on the Travel Channel that aired late last month. From the article : The "Sand Masters" spent three days building their sand sculptures in Scioto County, only to have them blown up in five seconds. Ralph Scott owns the firing...

Denny's restaurants run pro-Second Amendment ad in run-up to Independence Day

3:00pm Monday, July 02, 2012
WorldNetDaily.com writer Drew Zahn recently published an article highlighting a new commercial from Denny's restaurants, a diner chain famous for being open every hour of every day. While many retail businesses around the country have taken up the trend of plastering "no guns allowed" signs on their front doors, one national restaurant chain has boldly declared the right to bear arms key to what...

Hoplophobia Kills: No justice for Erik Scott – gunned down for legally carrying a gun

7:00am Monday, July 02, 2012
by Jeff Knox Erik Scott was a West Point graduate with an MBA from Duke. He served honorably in the Army and establish a lucrative career in real estate and as a sales rep for a medical device company. He was 38 years old when he was gunned down in the portico of a Las Vegas area Costco store by officers from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. While it was seven bullets from the only people...

Dueling editorials on HB495 expose difference between logic and emotion, facts and fallacy

7:00am Friday, June 29, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Two northern Ohio newspapers have recently published editorials on House Bill 495, which was passed out of the Ohio House on June 13 by a 59 - 28 margin. The contrast between editorials by The Lima News and The Cleveland Plain Dealer addressing passage of the bill, which seeks to reform Ohio concealed carry law to protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and continue a trend...

FLASH: Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress

3:18pm Thursday, June 28, 2012
by Chad D. Baus President Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, has been found to be in contempt of Congress as a result of his refusal to comply with a subpoena requiring him to release documents related to the BATFE's gun-walking operation known as Fast & Furious. Seventeen Democrats joined the Republican majority in voting for the resolution to find Holder in contempt of Congress...

Op-Ed: America Needs to Get Furious...FAST

7:00am Wednesday, June 27, 2012
By Chris W. Cox The Daily Caller Attorney General Eric Holder's continued refusal to turn over "Fast and Furious" documents to House investigators - even in the face of being held in contempt by Congress - is another symptom of the disease of lawlessness that has been rotting our republic ever since President Barack Obama took office. Moreover, Obama's decision to invoke "executive privilege" to...

FLASH: House to vote Thursday to hold AG Holder in contempt of Congress

4:22pm Tuesday, June 26, 2012
CNN is reporting that the United States House of Representatives will vote Thursday to cite U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress. The vote would be the first time in history such action has been taken. From the article: The House Oversight Committee recommended the vote against Attorney General Eric Holder last week after he refused to hand over all of the requested...

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