hunting

This morning as I tried to draw up plays for the anemic Bengals offense — the worst since Coach Marvin Lewis offered a glimmer of hope when he took over six seasons ago — I was greeted with a press release from the hunting and fishing stalwart, Field & Stream, about its pivotal role this [...]

As Art Allen reported yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a proponent of a video game-style of hunting,  where hunters shoot animals, like wolves and bears, from the sky in a low-flying airplane.
This morning I found a disturbing new ad from Defender’s of Wildlife Actionfund in my inbox describing Palin’s enthusiasm for the activity.
According to [...]

This morning our science reporter Arthur Allen explored the bizarre world of aerial wolf hunting, an Alaskan activity supported and actually furthered by Gov. Sarah Palin. There’s a small facet I’d like to add to that story.
Alaska’s Board of Game is a seven-member body that meets throughout the year for purposes of “conservation and development [...]

Gov. Sarah Palin’s predator abatement program doesn’t give the wolves a fighting chance; she tried to strip power from their defenders, too.

At Economist’s View, Mark Thoma gives an eloquent explanation for why Democrats should think carefully about responding to the charge that they’re condescending toward small-town American values. Thoma, a University of Oregon economics professor, grew up in a small town in California.
To him, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is tapping into something [...]