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Elephant population.
Nobody knows for sure, but there are at least 600,000 wild elephants in Africa. Some say that there are as many as 700,000, but it is difficult to estimate the population of wild animals, especially when they occur on an entire continent, and is constantly in motion.
Trophy hunting is regularly highlighted as one of the African elephants major threats, but it hardly to accept as true. Analyses that are just a few years old and published in 2009 by Professor Samuel Wesser, University of Washington shows that poachers each year kills 38,000 elephants in Africa. It is also a widely recognized fact that increasing agricultural production and the increasing African population is a threat to the entire continent's wildlife, and especially for the largest migratory species such as elephants.
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Hello Kenarry readers! I'm Ashlyn from Belle of the Kitchen and I'm back for our newest edition of Ideas for the Kitchen, a blog series where Carrie and I swap recipes once a month.
Since barbecue season is now in full swing, we decided to share some easy side dish recipes to accompany all of your outdoor meals this summer. Today I've brought a fresh and easy Cucumber Greek Salad Recipe. It's healthy and delicious on all of those hot summer days!
If you're looking for Carrie, you can find her over on my blog today where she's sharing her recipe for Classic Taco Salad. She'll be sharing it here on Kenarry in a couple of weeks, but if you want to go ahead and take a peek, you can visit Belle of the Kitchen to check it out!
With the 4th of July just a couple of days of away, I've been spending some time thinking about what to make for the big day. To me that usually means potato salad, burgers, hot dogs, lemonade, and some kind of red, white, and blue dessert.
Dessert is usually a lot of fun to make when celebrating the 4th, and I'll probably make these Mini Fruit Pizzas again like I did last year. They were a big hit and I know I'll probably devour more than my fair share this time around, too!
When there's lots of yummy desserts and other heavy dishes to chow down on at a barbecue, sometimes I like to prepare a healthier alternative. It's nice to have a fresh side dish to balance everything out, and this Greek Cucumber Salad definitely fits the bill!
This salad is so easy to throw together. The hardest part is chopping the veggies, and that really only takes about five minutes. Add in some spices, lemon juice, olive oil, and feta, and you are ready to go.
You can definitely make this in a quick pinch for any barbecue or get-together this summer, but if you let it marinate for a couple of hours, the flavors will develop even more.
I made ours with black olives because my hubby and son love them, but if it were just for me, I'd leave them out! I'm kinda anti-olives. If you prefer a different kind of olive, you can definitely use those instead, too.
So what kind of side dishes do you have planned for your 4th of July celebration? Share your ideas with us below! We'd love to hear them.
- 2 cucumbers, peeled and chopped into ¼ moons
- 4-6 Roma tomatoes, chopped
- ½ of a red onion, sliced
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1½ Tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- ½ cup crumbled feta cheese
- Salt and Pepper (to taste)
- Black olives, pitted and sliced (to taste)
- In a large bowl, combine cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions.
- In a smaller bowl, mix the olive oil, lemon juice, and dried oregano. Pour over the vegetables and mix well. Season salad with salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle feta cheese and olives over the top of salad and mix. Taste and adjust spices if need be. Refrigerate until ready to eat. Enjoy!
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Ashlyn is the recipe developer, writer, and photographer at Belle of the Kitchen. She's the mama of two precious babies, an army wife, and southern girl at heart. She and her family are currently stationed in Hawaii, so when she's not making a mess of the kitchen, she and her little ones are outside soaking up the sunshine. She loves to share a balance of healthy recipes, family friendly meals, and plenty of treats to satisfy your sweet tooth.
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Comic-Con 2013!
- Allison
What a whirlwind.
Read on for the full update on Madefire Comic-Con 2013! Imagine a gathering of Madefire enthusiasts and leading artists keenly discussing Motion Books with and amongst a flurry of Bronies (term for My Little Pony male fans), Game of Thrones devotees (fans at our booth for a George R.R. Martin and Gary Gianni signing), live press, dynamic publishers, and clever cosplayers ("Geek-speak" for Comic-Con participants who dress spectacularly in themed costume).
Now, picture a sleek, black Madefire booth decorated by a seven iPad x three iPad video wall of twenty-one iPads (Yes, twenty-one!). Our engineering team programmed these iPads to act as one giant screen, playing an epic video reel of Madefire Motion Book highlights on loop as the Madefire team showed off demos of its Motion Book collection to Comic-Con participants on the show floor.
Okay, time for the report!
Let's start at the beginning.
Just days before Comic-Con, we made big announcements regarding new third-party publisher partnerships. Madefire is proud to have announced partnerships with IDW, Top Cow, Boom! Studios, and ITV Studios America. The week of Comic-Con, Madefire kept the ball rolling, releasing an original, digital-first series The Trouble with Katie Rogers: Preview and first two episodes from ITV Studios America by Des Taylor. Madefire also released Treatment Detroit: Episode 1 by Dave Gibbons and Sherlock Holmes: The Greek Interpreter by Bill Sienkiewicz and Liam Sharp. We look forward to bringing the Madefire experience to such popular titles as Star Trek, My Little Pony, and Transformers from IDW, The Darkness from Top Cow, and Next Testament and 2 Guns from Boom! Studios.
On Thursday, Ben Wolstenholme, Dave Gibbons, and Liam Sharp spoke to a full room at deviantART's "How-To: Motion Books" Panel. (By the way, deviantART had an awesome Artist's Alley at their booth several steps away from us.) The Motion Book panel must have sparked quite some interest, because a number of aspiring and intrigued creators scouted out the Madefire booth in following days with high praise of what they had learned in the panel and a number of inquiries regarding tool sign-up and details.
Participants, creators, and readers joined the Madefire team in brandishing black and red Madefire pins on their Comic-Con lanyards. Dave Gibbons, Bill Sienkiewicz, Liam Sharp, Des Taylor, Gary Gianni, and Ben Wolstenholme participated in signings at the Madefire booth throughout the weekend, and everyone on the team had tons of fun hanging out with fans at the Madefire booth! Participants at Comic-Con were able to check out current Madefire store offerings, recent releases, and early previews of several upcoming Madefire store releases, including Star Trek and My Little Pony:
Ladies and Bronies alike read My Little Pony, wide-eyed, smiling, and quick to point out their favorite ponies. (Fun fact from a new five-year-old friend: "The nicer the ponies, the prettier they are! Duh!" Good to know!).
Trekkies and Transformers fanatics gave their stamp of approval.
Game of Thrones groupies were excited to learn about us while they waited in line for a George R.R. Martin signature on their gorgeous Gary Gianni-illustrated calendar.
Des Taylor wooed the crowds with demonstrations of his Motion Book featuring the fashionable heroine Katie Rogers, a NYC publicist. Katie Rogers possesses gumption, class, and sex appeal to the max. (I think we know who to dress up as next year! ;) Cosplay, anyone?!).
Happily, the highly anticipated Sherlock Holmes: The Greek Interpreter art did not disappoint: fans admired each tap point, portrait, and page on the new release, as well as on the most recent Mono.
Interestingly, Madefire released Treatment Detroit: Episode 1 a day before the "real" city of Detroit declared bankruptcy. Apropos? Freaky timing? In my opinion, all part of the Comic-Con mystery and magic!
Now, if you follow our blog regularly, you may remember my previous post about the latest Mono episode, which released the week before Comic-Con. We promised the exhibition of a 3D Mono print—and prominently on our Comic-Con booth counter, he stood. We had two framed 3D prints with us: one painted dark and the other white… He looked awesome.
Several Comic-Con participants were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to see Ben Wolstenholme's six-foot-long panorama, or "pano," print from Mono: Episode 4! (The print was stored behind the booth for most of the weekend, with the intention of keeping it safe from spills and damage; however, it was frequently unfurled for those interested.) Admirers of the Mono print, demo, and pano "oohed" and "ahh'd" on the show floor as members of the Madefire team explained how the Madefire Motion Book Tool capably converts such a 2D print into a 3D effect masterpiece pano.
At 5 PM PST Sunday, Comic-Con ended, and we closed up our booth… until next time.
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The best auto parts store will sell you the parts you need to keep your car running like new. Even if your car is new, you'll eventually have to replace a part in it and you'll have to buy that part from somewhere.
You can buy auto parts online these days to save time and money. But not all auto parts websites are the same, here are my top picks for the best online auto parts stores.
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Auto Parts Stores: Our Top Picks
Advanced Auto Parts Review
- Pros
- Established and respected company
- Large selection of products
- Many stores nationwide
- Easy to use website
- Daily deals section
- Cons
- Not as competitively priced
Advanced Auto Parts was founded in 1932 and is one of the oldest auto parts dealers in the United States. Today, they are a well-established, respected brand and the largest automotive parts retailer in the nation.
As you may expect from such a large store, Advanced Auto Parts has a huge selection of a wide variety of parts including batteries, engine parts, brakes, automotive tools, accessories, and more.
They have a comprehensive and easy to use website with a helpful search tool. You can also find daily deals and specials that will help you save money. The site has a variety of learning tools in their DIY Garage blog, video, and resources sections, which is really helpful if you want to learn more about automotive repairs. The resources can guide you through the DIY auto repair process.
Advanced Auto Parts offers free shipping for orders over $75. You also have the option of picking up your order at one of their thousands of nationwide storefronts to avoid a shipping charge. Orders are generally ready for pickup in store within one hour of placing your order.
Although the retailer offers a variety of great features and conveniences, they aren't as competitively priced as some other stores for certain products. The site's educational section and resources are worth checking out, even if you don't make a purchase from the company.
Auto Parts Warehouse Review
- Pros
- Competitively priced
- Excellent website
- Helpful search tools
- Warehouses all over the country for convenient delivery
- Free shipping on orders $50 or more
- Cons
- 20% restocking fee
Unlike some other auto parts stores, Auto Parts Warehouse operates solely by shipping products that are ordered by phone or online. Ordering straight from the warehouse and not from a retailer has some perks.
Because the products don't have to go through middlemen at storefronts and retail shops, you can get parts at a wholesale price, which is usually considerably lower than the retail price.
Auto Parts Warehouse has a wide variety of products to choose from and the easy-to-use website and helpful search tools can help you find exactly what you are looking for. You can use the simple search bar to enter a keyword or the model number.
You can also use their other search tool to find a part by entering the make and model of your car. This is great when you are looking for a part that was specially made for your vehicle.
Standard shipping takes 2 to 7 business days. But bulk orders can take up to 20 days to ship. Other companies ship it in less time, but that is rare. However, they do have a policy to include free shipping on orders $50 and over.
One major drawback of Auto Part Warehouse is the restocking fee. If you need to return something, the auto parts store charges you a 20% fee to take it back.
Stocking fee aside, Auto Part Warehouse is competitively priced and is one of the most helpful websites in the industry. Think carefully before you order to reduce the chance that you'll need to return your parts and pay the fee.
AutoZone Review
- Pros
- Established and respected company
- Excellent website
- Helpful search tools
- Find a mechanic search tool
- Great deals and saving
- Cons
- May not be able to return used or installed items
AutoZone has been in the industry since 1979 and has over 5,000 retail store locations in the United States, Mexico and Brazil. It is a well-established company with a large catalog of available parts to choose from. The site is designed well and has a very easy to use format. There are simple category tabs with dropdown menus for when you want to browse the site to see what they offer. You can also use the search tool by typing in keywords, vehicle models, or a specific parts identification number. AutoZone has stores all over the nation, which allows you the option to have orders delivered or you can pick up orders in the store that is near you. If you decide to pick up your order, you can pick it up on the same day that it is placed.
AutoZone also has a helpful tool that helps you find a repair shop in your area. You can even refine your search to include shops that caters to a certain language, service certain vehicles, or offers specific services. AutoZone offers some interesting ways to save. The online auto parts store offers an incentive for signing up for its email list, for example. It also runs specials from time to time, particularly around the holidays. AutoZone is a good site to choose and has plenty of helpful resources. Also, the interesting deals and promotional savings make it worth considering.
Key Considerations When Looking for an Online Auto Parts Store
If you do want to look for your own auto parts online, you can see all of your pricing options and a large selection of parts. In the past, you would have to go to a store or two to see what they have in stock. Today, you can see a huge selection of parts on a variety of websites all within a short time frame.
Finding the right part for the right price, however, may depend on the sites and stores you visit. There are a variety of good car supply stores selling auto parts online; here are a few things you should consider when you are looking for one:
- What sort of parts do they have available? Make sure the store you are looking at has a wide selection of the parts you are looking for.
- What is their return policy? Not everyone is a mechanical genius and there is a chance that you might make a mistake and buy the wrong part. If so, you should be able to get your money back or exchange it for the correct part.
- Compare a store's prices with other competing stores. Don't just buy from the first site or store that you visit.
- Shipping speed. Free shipping is great, but if your car needs to be repaired immediately, you need to get that part ASAP. The best auto parts store is going to offer speedy shipping options as well as basic ground shipping.
- Customer service availability and quality. You're not a mechanic, but you do have questions about your order. The best car parts websites have reps standing by to answer your questions and help you through the ordering process.
- Best prices. "You get what you pay for" isn't the case when it comes to ordering auto parts. You want the right part, for the lowest price possible.
How to Get the Best Deal
Ordering auto parts online is only really worth it if you're getting the best price for those parts. Here are a few tactics I've found that helbringsng down the total cost of repairing my car.
1. Find a Discount Code
Trust me, you don't want to do any online shopping without a promo or coupon code. Discount codes are a dime a dozen these days. It's rare for a store not to be offering some sort of promotion or discount.
Often, the website will let you know about the promotion the minute it loads. If that's the case--great, just make sure you put the promo code in before you order.
Ordering auto parts online is only really worth it if you're getting the best price for those parts.
Some sites make it a little more challenging to get a discount. You might need to sign up for their email list, for example. Or you might need to visit a third-party site to find a list of currently active promos. Keep in mind that those sites occasionally list expired coupons. If you find one that doesn't work, rate it on the site so that other shoppers know.
2. Ask About Price Matching
A number of online auto parts stores try to stand out from the competition by matching the prices offered by other stores. If you have a favorite store but you find the part you need, offered by a different store for a better price, contact your preferred store and ask about their price matching policy.
3. Get Free Shipping
Shipping costs can make or break an online purchase. According to research from Pitney Bowes, about half of online shoppers surveyed have walked away from a purchase because the shipping fees turned out to be too great.
One way to save money on auto parts is to choose stores that offer free shipping. Some will offer free shipping on all orders, others expect you to make a minimum purchase. Depending on how much you buy, shipping costs can be what leads you to choose one retailer over another.
4. Order the Right Part, the First Time
It sounds like a no-brainer, but ordering the right part, the first time you order can save you a lot of money, time and stress. While most online auto parts websites will take back unused parts in new condition and in unopened packaging, quite a few charge a restocking fee for returns.
That fee can be between 15 and 20 percent of the cost of your order. If you mess up and order the wrong part, you'll need to pay for the mistake, which is pretty much a waste of money. Do yourself and your wallet a favor and only order if you're absolutely sure you're getting the right part.
Online Auto Parts Store vs. the Car Dealer
If you can easily bring your car to the dealership for repairs, why would you bother going the DIY route, ordering the part you need from an auto parts website?
Well, for one thing, car dealers are known for jacking up the price of the parts they sell you. I'm not talking a small 50 or 100% markup here. According to Road and Track, dealers have been known to charge a 5,000% premium on the parts they sell to customers. A simple $5 part can end up costing you thousands of dollars at a dealership.
Dealers have been known to charge a 5,000% premium on the parts they sell to customers. A simple $5 part can end up costing you thousands of dollars at a dealership.
A few years ago, the guys behind Car Talk, the radio call-in show where people ask questions about their vehicles, did a study to see how much more the dealers charged compared to independent mechanics.
Depending on the make and model of the car, the cost of repairs at a dealership was between 12 and 18 percent higher than the cost of the same repairs at an independent mechanic's shop. The hourly labor rate charged by dealerships was nearly double that charged by independent shops.
Another reason to avoid the dealership is the practice of upselling. That's when you bring your car in for an oil change and end up also getting the windows tinted, the tires rotated and a new coat of paint. Maybe you did actually need to have your tires rotated, but it's likely that you were pressured into the new coat of paint and the window tinting by a pushy salesperson.
One way to avoid upselling is to install the parts yourself. If that's out of the question, it's worth it to get a second opinion, from an independent mechanic. Independent mechanic shops often have more at stake than dealerships, so they are more likely to tell you straight whether you really need to have additional parts or services installed.
Getting a second opinion lets you know for sure whether you need a particular repair or service or not. It also gives you some leverage for haggling. You can get quotes from a number of different repair shops, then use those quotes to negotiate with the company you actually want to work with.
Plus, if you work with a smaller repair part shop, they are more likely to let you bring in your own parts. The shop will only charge you labor fees, which can help you save a considerable amount of money.
How to Find your Parts
One of the most important things to know before you buy anything at an online auto parts store is the exact part you need. For the most part, car parts aren't interchangeable.
Each make, model, and year of the car will need a specific part. When you visit an auto parts shop in person, most have huge books that contain a list of all the different types of cars out there and the parts that work with them.
When you shop for cheap auto parts online, you don't get to consult that book. But the best auto parts stores do let you input your car's make, model, and year and will pull up a list of all the parts that work with it, which reduces the chance of you ordering the wrong part.
Even if the website you're using does offer that feature, it doesn't hurt to call the car dealer to verify the specific make and model of the part you need. They might be a little annoyed that you're not bringing your car into them for service, but they will most likely tell you which part is right for your car. If the dealer won't cooperate, you can locate the part you need online.
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It pays to shop around when you need a part for your car. Visit multiple auto part sites before you buy and make sure you are getting the best deal and the exact part you need. Take advantage of the price matching policies offered by several companies to make sure you're getting the best price possible, no matter what part you need to buy.
Of course, there are times when your car needs more than a new part. If it's time to trade in your old clunker for a new model, check out my review of the best auto loan companies to find financing that works for you.
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It's just plain wrong. Where in the bible does it say its ok to lie. Nowhere. Exactly! It is also shown in the 10 commandments to not lie to our parents and elders. Jesus also taught us to be truthful to ourselves. When Peter betrayed Jesus, in lying where does it lead him to. It leads him to repenting his sin of lying.
It's just plain wrong. Where in the bible does it say its ok to lie. Nowhere. Exactly! It is also shown in the 10 commandments to not lie to our parents and elders. Jesus also taught us to be truthful to ourselves. When Peter betrayed Jesus, in lying where does it lead him to. It leads him to repenting his sin of lying.
I am studying philosophy and based on what I know ideas and topics are universal which means they have to uphold no matter what. So if a murder comes to your house to kill your friend you should tell him your friend is there ,but you should not let him die. So you can uphold the universal standard that should be met.
Why mislead someone and live with that. No regrets live free and deal with life as it passes. Someone that lies will be found out eventually. People that lie teach thier children to lie by example. Yes we do lie to each other so we dont hurt someone, but that does not make it right
Lying is wrong because through the withholding information from another person you are not allowing them to make their own decisions. You are taking control of another persons decision making process because you have decided that you deserve a more complete version of the truth than they do. Have you ever found out that you were lied to and felt happy about it?
Lying is bad because if you lie there's a point in life which you will end up like a complete dumb ass. Why do you think god created us was it to lie or to tell the truth.Dont lie because when it comes to the day of judgement theres only one thing I can tell you. Good luck with what ever lie you have don't be a fool because you were spoiled don't be stupid because you don't know how to simply use youre brain .So stop the lying and stand up for the truth
I think that lying is a bad practice and morally wrong but I also believe it to be one that can be alright in certain situations. I think that the world exists and runs on "little lies" and that is really not a big deal. Many people lie to keep the peace.
Although there might be some cases where lying is justified, in general it is morally wrong to conceal or misrepresent the truth. Lying is wrong because it seeks to deceive and take advantage of others. This is why most religions and moral codes of the world consider lying to be wrong.
Sometimes it is said that it is better to lie than to tell the truth in some cases, but the truth is what will set you free. Lying is a poor trait to have, and lying to another person, even if you think it's for their own good, should not be your decision to make. Everybody deserves honesty.
Lying is wrong no matter what if the intention behind the lie is selfish and malicious. However if the lie is to save life and limb, or if it has to do with military service, keeping secrets safe, such as the positions of your unit and army and all of the like, then it is not wrong.
I do not think lying is morally wrong by itself. If you lie in order to directly harm another individual then yes you can make the case that is morally wrong. However lying itself could often be beneficial and help more than it hurts. Lying in general is not morally wrong.
Lying is not morally wrong. There are certain situations in which we must lie and it should not be wrong. We lie to our children about Santa Claus at Christmas so everyone must lie at some point in their life. I think it is okay to lie as long as it does not harm anyone.
There are times that lying is better than telling the truth. When the truth can hurt somebody, a lie will make them feel good, and the overall outcome of either isn't of consequence, a lie can help. For instance, if somebody tried hard to give you a good present and you don't like it, is it really morally superior to say "this sucks" instead of "thank you, I love it?" In both cases you have the gift, in both cases they gave it to you, one they're happy, one they aren't. Smile!
Lying is not inherently wrong, any more than any other form of communication is wrong. Lying is inherently coercive and deceitful, and in a majority of cases deliberately giving false information is found to be morally wrong. The act itself, however, may be done for an enormous variety of reasons, and indeed human society could not function without at least some aspect of lying. Telling your best friend her baby looks adorable, instead of saying it looks like a chubby little rat, is still lying, but considering the intent(to not cause emotional harm) and the effect(not upsetting friend), most people would agree that this 'white' lie is morally permissible.
It all depends on your intentions. If the gestapo knocked on your door and asked if you were hiding any Jews it would then be morally acceptable to lie, because of your intentions. Now if you stole a cookie and blamed it on your brother, that would not be morally acceptable, because your unjustly harming someone. It all depends on the scenario, but because the question was not very thorough I will have to say no because it can sometimes be morally alright.
I will agree sometimes lying is a very bad thing to do, BUT not all the time. Sometimes lying can end up being a good thing, maybe your lie can save some innocent persons life. A good example would be during WWII. During the Holocaust many Jews were persecuted and were murdered violently, but there were some good people there that hid the Jews away so they can be safe and if a Nazi would come to their house and search the place then ask you if you have seen any Jews, of course your response will be "No". That was lying but for good intentions so sometimes lying is a good thing.
While lying may be problematic and result in less trust between individuals, it is not objectively wrong in all cases. There are certainly times when it is moral and preferable to lie to someone, whether it is an attempt to make your lover feel better about herself or to tell that killer that you have not seen the person he is looking for. In the first instance, one need not lie (though it would be understandable and acceptable); one could simple make gentle, constructive criticisms, either at the time or later (after lying). Needlessly hurting someone is what would be morally wrong in these situations.
There is no such thing as morally right or wrong, in a universal sense. Your morals may be different from my morals may be different from their morals. The tricky thing with morals is that they are subjective to the individual. Lying has its place and its purpose but is always a gamble between the gains should it succeed and the penalty of being caught.
I truly believe that lying isn't wrong. I feel no guilt or shame or wrongness when i do lie. Mind you most of my lies are for the bettering of my life or getting out of trouble (considering I'm in high school) and being a class clown i have become increasingly proficient in lying to the point where i could consider it an art. I believe that lying is not wrong.
If a lie gets our butt out of trouble, you have the right to say it. In this day and age, we need more confidence. To be able to appeal to our own desires, especially if they don't hurt anyone else, and benefit ourselves (most importantly), we should be obliged to say what makes ourselves look good. Be it social standing, others' opinions of you, or even your occupation, you need to help yourself in the end. You need to live. We have the right to prioritize ourselves before others; it is human nature to out-compete all of the others. The Australopithecus in the caves had few things on their mind; all linked to their own well being. Tap into this mindset yourself, and become happier. However, we mustn't think that we are superior to others; believe that we are all equal, but we need to do anything we can to win the race of life- especially lying.


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text: From his office in the James Madison Building at tree-shrouded Liberty Park, a citadel of gunfire and tax exemption in Bellevue, the Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb surveys an America under siege, not by the 90 million gun owners who possess 300 million firearms, but by the laws against them. At 62, armed and affable, he has spent 37 years battling gun haters, as he calls his opposition, growing his once-tiny Second Amendment Foundation into a 650,000-member crusade and transforming himself, an ex-con, into a multi-millionaire, often by demonizing gun-controlling liberals and cashing in on the backlash. When a gunman reportedly used an assault rifle to ambush Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, 39, in a Halloween night drive-by two weeks ago, for example, and gun opponents raised concerns about the easy availability of such weapons, Gottlieb dashed out a press release accusing them of "dancing in Officer Brenton's blood" to "advance a political agenda." Now he's going for a landmark victory, asking the United States Supreme Court to rule that President Barack Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago is preventing homeowners from arming themselves. With pro-gun money pouring in, his group is financing a legal hit squad intent on not only bringing down U.S. gun bans but dramatically changing constitutional law."We've had a very well-plotted-out legal strategy for years, leading up to this," Gottlieb says of his organization's lawsuit. Chicago, because of Obama, is also a prized symbolic target. "[Obama] supports the ban, always has," Gottlieb claims.Balding, bespectacled, and mustachioed behind a neatly-kept desk, Gottlieb clicks the keys of his laptop, checking for contributions, media requests, and hate mail. "Considering the millions of letters and e-mails I mail out and all the TV and radio I do each month, the three or four hate letters a week that I get are very minimal," he says, sitting beneath a "No Whining" sign. He's in demand by radio and cable-news interviewers daily, where he often repeats the line: "Barack Obama is the most polarizing president we've ever had."A bow-tied conservative with rapid-fire delivery, Gottlieb boasts that he's already helped revoke the prevailing gun law of Obama's new home, Washington, D.C. The Supremes last year threw out the capital city's ban on gun ownership, in a lawsuit organized and financed by Robert Levy, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute, and backed by friend-of-the-court briefs from SAF and others. But the ruling's effect was limited to the District, a federal enclave.Gottlieb's Chicago lawsuit, filed only hours after the court decided the D.C. case, could extend that ruling to any U.S. locale with a similar gun ban.Among dozens of major lawsuits filed by SAF over the years, the Chicago case is Gottlieb's legal pinnacle, backed also by the four-million-member National Rifle Association and 34 state attorneys general. 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"Our office has yet to support any measures placing fewer restrictions against guns," says Guthrie.Conversely, Gottlieb sees gun control as a civil-rights issue—and as a living, getting better every hour that Obama is president. Like the NRA, SAF is experiencing growth in membership and contributions, reflected in corresponding increases of gun and ammunition purchases nationwide. Merchants report a steady climb in sales, which spiked immediately after Obama's November victory. (The week of his election, the FBI says it received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers, nearly a 50 percent jump over the same period in 2007, and the Washington Post reported last week thatnearly 12 billion rounds of ammunition were soldin the past year, an increase of more than two billion).Though the White House says Obama has never promised to push for a gun-sale ban, Gottlieb claims that's Obama's intention, and that it has led to a hardening of the American gun debate. "The middle just gets smaller and smaller," says Gottlieb. As a result, he expects his annual budget could grow to $6 million this year, considerably more than the $3.6 million that SAF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, took in last year, according to the group's 2008 IRS filings.Gottlieb's major opponents, in his view, are Democrats who want to strip America down to its last water pistol. "With Obama in the White House and anti-gunners in control of key committees in Congress, the gun grabbers are out for blood," he says in one fund-raising pitch. At the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in St. Louis last month, sponsored in part bySAF (they raised money by selling racy calendars featuring the "Locked and Loaded Ladies,"), he launched into a sermon about Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the "anti-gun bigots" in the Senate who have "us and our gun rights in their crosshairs." Likewise, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre urged the 700 attendees to become "gun-rights activists" and raise a stink over Obama's possible revival of the assault-weapons ban, which George W. Bush allowed to expire in 2004.Gottlieb beats the pro-gun drums in fear that opponents are gaining a new foothold. One of Gottlieb's recent targets is Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who has proposed a ban on gun possession by anyone on the FBI's terrorist watch list. [This story has been changed since it was first posted. It originally gave an innacurate description of how Gottlieb "refers to" Lautenberg.] Yet gun-control hysteria clearly softened after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Washington CeaseFire president Ralph Fascitelli, who calls Gottlieb a "scoundrel," concedes gun control "on the federal level is stymied," though he says his Seattle-based group remains active. "Actually, the Supreme Court's [D.C.] ruling last year was one of the best things to happen to the gun-control movement," he says. "That slippery-slope argument, that any new gun law is just another step towards taking all guns away, is dead."Ex–Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper says much of the debate now is just hyperbole, noting that "with few exceptions, politicians, for all their bluster, are timid, calculating souls. As with the drug war, the people are generally out ahead of their elected officials on gun control." Obama, he adds, has "too much on his plate, and too little political capital, to try to separate Americans from their guns."Peter Hamm, Communications Director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, says that, if anything, Obama has failed to meet his group's expectations. "We're not seeing the same thing [Gottlieb] and his friends are," Hamm says. "It's propaganda of the most ludicrous and misleading sort. They wanted to gin up their supporters before the election, and couldn't do it, so now ever since the guy got elected he's the Antichrist of guns. Yet Obama's done nothing." (Actually, he's done something—inking a bill that overturned a national-parks gun ban.)But Gottlieb's tactics may be winning out. An October Gallup Poll concluded that 55 percent of gun owners believe Obama will attempt to ban gun sales. Another October poll by Rasmussen Reports found that just 39 percent of respondents think the country needs stricter gun laws, down from 43 percent six months earlier. Americans, say Gottlieb, "have had it with utopian gun bans that leave them defenseless against merciless thugs."He's talking about firearms possessed by violent criminals, who take advantage of the mostly unchecked flow of legal and illegal handguns and assault weapons. He's not talking about armed white-collar felons, such as himself.Gun control pulls everyone's trigger, and Gottlieb is usually happy to be the media bull's-eye. But he wasn't so fond of that role in the 1980s, when some of his own employees turned on him. In a lawsuit, they claimed he was wrongly using SAF funds for his personal benefit, and tried to wrest control of the nonprofit. (The disagreement even came to blows in 1984, when police were called to break up a scuffle between Gottlieb family members—his wife is also an SAF employee—and the rebelling workers.)In a drawn-out court fight, Gottlieb countersued and ultimately prevailed: A judge dismissed the employees' suit and stuck them with $30,000 in damages. Acontented Gottlieb said he used the money to buy himself a black Corvette.Adding to the spectacle, Gottlieb at the time had just finished serving a year-and-a-day prison term related to a tax-evasion investigation. He pled guilty to a federal charge of failing to pay a $29,396 tax debt (with penalties and interest) on his personal income five years earlier.As a convicted felon, the man who advocated unrestricted gun ownership couldn't own a gun. But as an ex-con (he did his time in a Spokane work-release facility), Gottlieb discovered a little-known program administered by the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It allowed him to regain his gun rights in 1985, after an ATF review concluded he was a worthy nonviolent offender. (The restoration law still exists, but Congress has barred ATF from funding the program since 1992, effectively killing it).In an ATF report obtained by the D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, which undertook a study of gun-reinstatement cases, Gottlieb told federal agents that it was "awkward for him not to handle firearms" when here he was the firearms nut. (Gottlieb's e-mail address, incidentally, is firstname.lastname@example.com.) In recommending restoration, Gottlieb's investigating officer sympathetically described him as a "very devoted gun person...into conservative Right Wing stuff." It wasn't as though he shot anybody. And he never has, he says. (One night in a parking lot, he did draw on a man with a knife intent on robbing him, Gottlieb says. The suspect "left quickly.")Gottlieb calls himself a responsible, if prolific, gun owner. At his Bellevue home he has at least 60 weapons, mostly collectors' firearms. He doesn't like to be photographed with his guns, and isn't demonstrative about them—he's no Stephen Colbert, fondling his "Sweetness." A black bag filled with the handguns Gottlieb takes to a nearby shooting range sits among the organized clutter of his office, which includes a portrait of a gunman shooting a bullet so large it requires a second portrait to capture it.Personally, Gottlieb favors either a Detonics .45 or a Browning 9 mm. He doesn't always bear a weapon, he says, and hardly ever carries one around the office. "My employees [about a dozen] are armed enough to protect me," he notes with a smile. So when is Gottlieb most certain to be packing? "Whenever I go to Seattle," he says, still smiling.Gottlieb thinks Greg Nickels is wasting time and money on efforts to control guns in Seattle. Most recently, the mayor decreed that guns should not be allowed in most city parks. It's Nickels' belief, says his spokesperson Alex Fryer, that guns increase the risk of injury and death even when possessed for self-defense. The mayor cites a recent University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study concluding that people who carried guns for self-defense were 4.5 times more likely to be shot during an assault than those without guns.But the parks ban is unenforceable and unconstitutional, says Gottlieb, who two weeks ago filed suit challenging the ban in King County Superior Court. State law pre-empts the mayor's ban, he claims, and only the legislature can change that—an opinion shared by McKenna. Besides, the ban isn't supported by the public, says Gottlieb, citing 1,088 e-mail comments sent to City Hall, in which 1,044 opposed the ban.Mayoral spokesperson Fryer says only 35 percent of that tally came from Seattleites, and other responses were prompted by an NRA Web site. "We remain convinced," says Fryer, that the ban "has the support of the majority of people here in Seattle, and is the right thing to do."Gottlieb and Nickels, himself a Chicagoan, were once likely on the same side. Gottlieb was born into a family of Los Angeles Democrats (who later moved to New York), but crossed over to conservatism during the era of violent Vietnam War protests. (Gottlieb says he received an honorable discharge from the National Guard.) Bearing a degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee, he came to Seattle in the early 1970s as a regional coordinator for Young Americans for Freedom, a still-active movement of college-age conservatives who think, according to their founding credo, "that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom"—and that Commies suck. He launched an early version of what in 1974 became SAF, which today stakes its claim as "the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group" with the intention of making America safe by pitting guns against guns.Officially, Gottlieb is SAF's vice president, but he takes a more active day-to-day role than president Joe Tartaro, who doubles as executive editor of SAF's Gun Week magazine. Gottlieb was paid $36,000 last year, according to the group's IRS filing, while Tartaro received $15,000. Gottlieb also earned $36,000 as chairman of the Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms, SAF's gun-lobbying arm, housed in the same building. The Citizens Committee brought in $2.8 million last year, spending $1.5 million on "education" and "grass-roots lobbying" against gun control.Gottlieb got a bigger payday through his side business, a for-profit enterprise called Merril Mail-Marketing Inc., also housed at Liberty Park. Merril (Gottlieb's middle name) earned $384,000 from SAF and $211,000 from the Citizens Committee in 2008 for mail and marketing services. Merril also sells the names and addresses of SAF and Citizens Committee members, Gun Week subscribers, and even NRA members to direct-mail clients seeking to target conservatives—and scare them into buying something.In his 1993 book, Trashing the Economy, which he co-authored with Ron Arnold, Gottlieb offered this advice to commerical solicitors: A "direct mail letter must appeal to three base emotions: Fear, Hate and Revenge..." It must also target a "bogeyman" because "if you are not frightened, you won't send money." These are things he still believes today. "Fear, hate, and revenge," he says, "are three very powerful motivating factors in not just political fundraising but in politics as a whole. That is why negative TV and radio ads work so well. We all hate them, but we do respond to them."Gottlieb has thusraised millions for his causes, including funds for the so-called "Wise Use" movement, dedicated to stripping the land of its trees, metals, and other natural resources, headed by the environmentalist-loathing Arnold. (What to do about those tree-huggers? "Kill the bastards," Arnold said once on TV). Gottlieb and Arnold continue to espouse Wise Use through yet another Liberty Park–based group, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), which maintains a lively Web site but raised just $20,000 in contributions and grants last year, compared to $300,000 annually in the 1990s."The CDFE is still alive, but has scaled down since the Clinton years," says Gottlieb, predicting Obama's politics will soon pump up the volume for that group too, perhaps doubling last year's income. "The health-care issue is what is driving the CDFE to grow at this time," with single-payer as the bogeyman.Of course, Gottlieb has been busy with other things. As Willie Sutton reputedly said of banks, guns are where the money is. And in a way, courts are too.In the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court last year held by a 5–4 vote that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to keep and bear arms. The NRA's LaPierre deemed the ruling "a great moment in American history." The court was not asked to decide if that right extended to all of America, but that's the potential impact of the pending SAF case, McDonald v. Chicago. It is named for one of the four plaintiffs, Otis McDonald, a retiree who has been working with police to rid his neighborhood of drug dealers, and who wants to keep a handgun at his home, contrary to current Chicago law."We have a very compelling case," says Alexandria, Va.–based SAF attorney Alan Gura, "and I feel very good about our chances, considering the court's treatment of the Second Amendment in Heller." In that case, which Gura argued, he says, "The Supreme Court acted exactly according to constitutional design, enforcing a fundamental right against recalcitrant political forces. Not just conservatives, but all Americans, should rejoice in the decision."Besides McDonald, the other plaintiffs in the Chicago case are Adam Orlov, a former police officer, along with software engineer David Lawson and his wife, Colleen, a hypnotherapist, whose home has been targeted by burglars. Gottlieb's foundation, along with the Illinois Rifle Association, filed the Chicago lawsuit in June 2008, suing the city and Mayor Richard M. Daley in U.S. District Court.Chicago's 28-year-old law, Municipal Code § 8-20-040(a), bans handguns and automatic weapons. Long guns such as hunting rifles can be kept in the home, but must be annually re-registered at fees ranging from $20 to $35. A violation is punishable by a $300 to $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail. A re-offender faces a higher fine and up to six months in Cook County Jail.If the Chicago statute is struck down and the ruling extended nationwide, the high court must agree to a wider application of the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteeing due process and equal protection. Thoserights have been extendedpiecemeal over the years, under what is called the incorporation doctrine. The high courtapplied the Fourteenth's federal protections to the First Amendment and to the states, for example, when it said in 1925: "For present purposes we may and do assume that freedom of speech and of the press—which are protected by the 1st Amendment from abridgment by Congress—are among the fundamental personal rights and 'liberties' protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment from impairment by the states." Local laws thereafterhad to conform with constitutional speech rights.Some legal observers think the high court might take the opportunity of the SAF case—giving it even more historic meaning—by applying the Fourteenth to the entire Bill of Rights. The D.C.-based Constitutional Accountability Center is leading the charge, saying such an application would further strengthen a variety of civil protections, including gay and abortion rights. NAACP legal-defense fund president John Payton says these are rights Americans were supposed to have had from the start, and Arizona gun-book author and publisher Alan Korwin, on his blog, says of such an en masse application: "There's no way to adequately express in words how big that would be for your freedom."A narrow application of the Fourteenth to the Second Amendment has already been given by the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in the case Nordyke v. King, which concerns gun shows in Alameda County. (The ruling was later vacated in anticipation of a Supreme Court hearing on similar pending cases, including the SAF action.) The federal district judge in the SAF/Chicago case, meanwhile, "declined to rule" whether the Fourteenth applies, saying he'd also leave that up to the high court.In January, the SAF suit and a companion NRA case were combined and sent to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Judges there also passed the buck to the Supremes. The two gun organizations promptly filed separate briefs with the high court seeking review.In September, the court chose the SAF case over the NRA action to settle the issue, bringing a triumphant whoop from Gottlieb, realizing McDonald v. Chicago could become landmark law while the NRA's case goes unreviewed. The SAF case is to be argued before the court in February, and a decision is likely due by summertime. On that day, should he prevail, Gottlieb will be the toast of gun lovers everywhere.Still, a ruling in Gottlieb's favor would likely leave in place other "common sense" gun laws, such as licensing, simple registration, and background checks. "We certainly don't think it will have a major effect," says Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign, as long as the court stays within the parameters of its earlier D.C. decision. But Hamm is wary of the momentum such a ruling will give Gottlieb. "The Second Amendment Foundation," he says, "never met a proposal that would limit anyone's access to firearms that it didn't hate."Norm Stamper agrees. "The gun lobby has a lot to answer for," he says in an e-mail from Australia, where he's on a month-long tour speaking about drug-policy reform. "In its doctrinaire opposition to reasonable gun legislation—registering firearms, licensing owners, mandatory gun-safety courses—it has blocked laws that would make families and communities safer. And cop-killer bullets? Semi-automatic, or automatic, assault weapons? Gun shows? Please."Gottlieb glances at his watch as he chats. His rhetoric has made him one of the media's go-to guys; producers see his dramatic warnings of a White House gun-rights Armageddonas good theater. This day, he's minutes away from talking another radio call (WEUS in Orlando, Fla.), marking his 300th interview with U.S. stations this year, one of roughly 3,800 media appearances over more than a decade.He arranges some of these interviews himself, while others are handled by a booking agency. In a press release, the agency says Gottlieb "is recognized as a member of the working press, maintaining active membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America." More accurately, he's a working publisher: SAF produces Gun Week and several other periodicals, and Gottlieb, thanks to owning his own press, has authored or co-authored 17 books, mostly on guns.His 2007 self-defense book with Dave Workman, America Fights Back, is still a solid seller. Then there's the unauthorized bio of Hillary Clinton, She Took a Village (recently ranked 3,754,017 on Amazon), and the quirky Alan Gottlieb's Celebrity Address Book, in which the direct-mail maven has collected the names and addresses of almost 12,000 celebs—a "must for autograph collectors," writes one reviewer. Gottlieb's other duties include overseeing his organization's network of Northwest radio stations: KITZ in Port Orchard, KBNP in Portland, KGTK in Olympia, and KSBN in Spokane, on which he sometimes appears to discuss his gun advocacy. They are, for the most part, syndicated business-news stations by day, right-wing talk at night—a dash of Mike Siegel here, a glob of Lou Dobbs there.Dobbs recently returned the airtime favor. CNN's in-house populist had Gottlieb on his program in August to debate Brady Campaign president Paul Helmke. The topic was the AR-15 toted by a demonstrator outside an Obama appearance in Phoenix. [This sentence has been corrected since the story was first posted. It originally identified the gun as an AK-47.] Gottlieb surprised Helmke by agreeing that an open carry of a semi-automatic weapon to protest the president's health-care reform plan wasn't brilliant thinking—or at least "not politically smart," said Gottlieb, if you're trying to convince America that gun owners are responsible."I'm glad to hear that Alan has some common sense on this issue," replied Helmke, "because clearly there's a lot of people out there who don't." Not that Gottlieb was flattered. As they continued, Gottlieb barked, "You prefer nobody to have any guns anywhere, let's be honest about it!" (The Brady group, says spokesperson Hamm, "certainly is for tougher gun laws, but we don't blanket oppose any policy whatsoever.")That joust was followed by a performance on liberal MSNBC's Hardball, where Gottlieb grappled with Seattle-based Air America radio host and presidential son Ron Reagan Jr. over the same topic. A composed Gottlieb mostly agreed with Reagan, allowing that open carries at certain public events was no way to promote gun love. That Gottlieb would give any ground in the gun battle made host Chris Matthews suspicious. "I wish," Matthews said to Gottlieb, "I had you under Sodium Pentothal, sir." When Gottlieb made other fair points, Matthews opined that his guest was "getting loony."Says Gottlieb: "For many, I am the bogeyman." Still, he managed the last shot: When he got off the air, Gottlieb says, 60 new donations were waiting on the SAF's Web site.Stamper hasn't seen Gottlieb in some time. But at a Seattle CityClub forum in 1997, they came face-to-face in a debate over a trigger-lock and handgun-licensing initiative."The problem with this," Gottlieb told the former police chief, "is that it treats trigger locks like the answer to everything.""I know of no single instance," Stamper countered, "in which a child has been shot or killed with a gun with a trigger lock on it."That initiative, I-676, was then the center of the gun debate here. Late NRA leader and actor Charlton Heston was in town to back Gottlieb and support well-funded anti-initiative forces. Ex-Reagan press secretary James Brady, who was paralyzed in the 1981 presidential assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. and became an ambassador for gun control, was slated to appear but had been taken ill. (Today's prevailing Brady Law, requiring gun-buyer background checks and opposed by gun-rights activists, was signed in 1993 by President Clinton; 1.7 million questionable gun buyers have since been turned away.) [This sentence has also been changed. It originally said the Brady Law was signed by Clinton in 2003.] Leading the I-676 proponents was Tom Wales, then-president of Washington CeaseFire, whose group struggled to match the gun lobby's power and money. An assistant U.S. Attorney, Wales was sitting at the window in his Queen Anne home in 2001 when he was shot and killed by an assailant who has never been found. Gottlieb later told Seattle Weekly it was likely that "one of [Wales'] own" anti-gun campaigners killed Wales, intending to "martyr" their leader. To this day, CeaseFire president Fascitelli seethes over that comment, calling Gottlieb "a pathological right-wing extremist ex-felon who has lined his own pockets by perpetuating falsehoods and hysteria."Initiative 676 got 496,633 yes votes and 1,193,720 no votes, failing by 71 to 29 percent. It was the state's most recent major firearm battle, and both Gottlieb and Fascitelli agree the center shifted in favor of gun rights after Sept. 11, 2001.Stamper reflects on some of that from Down Under: "Australians express shock at the numbers of guns and gun homicides in the States. The entire country, 21 million-ish, has an annual homicide count—typically under 300—comparable to any single one of our biggest cities. Gun ownership is at five percent, and only 11 percent of 2007 murders were committed with a firearm. Aussies, in general, treat firearms and the damage they can do with great respect, and seem proud of their relatively new tradition of significant restrictions."I don't doubt [Gottlieb's] a True Believer," Stamper continues. "[But] it sounds like he's made a bundle promoting guns and bullets at the expense of public safety."As in their long-ago debate, Gottlieb sees it the other way around: More guns mean more safety. There's less crime in well-armed neighborhoods, and he has the studies to demonstrate it. The Supreme Court case is another step in that direction, he thinks, and he now spouts the virtues of a system that once put him in prison."We have a ballot box," he says, "and a jury box. We're going to beat Obama's gun ban that way."And fill the coin box in the email@example.com


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Eve Ensler is a playwright, performer and activist. She is the award-winning author of "The Vagina Monologues," which has been translated into 45 languages and performed in more than 120 countries. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting.
Ensler is also the founder and artistic director of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised more than $50 million. Active in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), V-Day and UNICEF, in partnership with Panzi Foundation, are planning to open the City Of Joy, a special facility for the survivors of sexual violence in Bukavu, DR Congo.


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Is Gov. Jim Thompson looking beyond 1986?
Now that Thompson is expected to win re-election to a fourth term, the Illinois Republican has been receiving frequent mention as a possibility for the 1988 GOP national ticket.
Is Gov. Jim Thompson looking beyond 1986?
Now that Thompson is expected to win re-election to a fourth term, the Illinois Republican has been receiving frequent mention as a possibility for the 1988 GOP national ticket.
Thompson insists that he`s taking nothing for granted about his November rematch with Adlai Stevenson. But Thompson is viewed as a clear favorite, in the wake of the LaRouchie victories in the March primary--victories that prompted Stevenson to announce plans to quit the Democratic ticket and run as an independent or third-party candidate.
In recent weeks, Thompson has stepped up his campaign and has been warning GOP audiences not to be complacent in the fall. And he cautions that early polls aren`t always accurate, a lesson he learned in 1982. Thompson expects the election to be closer than the polls now suggest.
But on issues ranging from noise pollution at O`Hare International Airport to school consolidation and his ``Build Illinois`` public-works initiative, Thompson has been setting the campaign`s agenda, while his opponent has been whining about the March primary. Stevenson`s bad luck continued last week when he suffered a back injury while horseback riding.
If Thompson wins big over Stevenson, he will become an instant contender for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a likely Democratic presidential candidate, and former White House political director Edward Rollins, who managed President Reagan`s 1984 campaign, have recently suggested that Thompson may emerge as a serious challenger for the White House.
Another reason some Republican strategists are making a case for Thompson as a 1988 presidential contender is that George Bush`s lead over the GOP field is considered shaky. Bush`s politically clumsy endorsement of higher oil prices on his recent visit to Saudi Arabia won`t help his prospects in the cold winter states of Iowa, Michigan and New Hampshire, which will hold the first presidential contests.
If Bush trips, Thompson has a reasonable chance of picking up the support of some moderates who now favor the vice president. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, former Sen. Howard Baker and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also will be competing for the GOP`s center.
On the right, U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp (R., N.Y.) is expecting competition from evangelist Pat Robertson and possibly from Senators Paul Laxalt and Jesse Helms. Although each is better known nationally than Thompson, only Robertson matches the Illinois governor`s skills on the political stump and the Protestant clergyman is a long shot at best. Thompson has the potential to surprise his rivals in Iowa and New Hampshire, where personal campaigning has major impact.
Thompson can enhance his Republican political stock by helping to elect some of his running mates in November. Because of the LaRouchie impact on the Democratic ticket, Thompson strategists are saying that Springfield Mayor Michael Houston, the GOP nominee for state treasurer, will be competitive with former State Treasurer Jerome Cosentino, and that State Sen. Adeline Geo-Karis (R., Zion) has an outside chance against popular State Comptroller Roland Burris.
Thompson also has a good chance of winning control of the state Senate. Even before the March primary, Republican prospects of eliminating the two-seat Democratic Senate majority had been considered strong. Thompson is planning a major effort in swing districts to elect a GOP majority.
And if he can help former Chicago Police Supt. James O`Grady, a recent convert to the GOP, upset Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod, it would further enhance his party credentials.
So would the election of Chicago`s first Republican mayor in 60 years. Thompson`s close friend Dan Webb, the former U.S. attorney, is interested in running against Mayor Harold Washington. Another possible Republican candidate is Chicago Park Supt. Edmund Kelly, a leading member of the Chicago Democratic organization, with whom Thompson has a friendly relationship.
In the meantime, Thompson is hoping to win re-election this fall by an impressive enough margin over Stevenson to gain national attention. And if he does, it`s off to Iowa.


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