Horses

Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Factory Farming, John Campbell, Chris Shays, Horses, Tom Lantos, Canada, America's Next Top Model, Prop 2, Animals, Farm Animals, Seal Hunt, Bob Filner, California, Susan Collins, Proposition 2, Nigel Barker, Carl Levin, Horse Slaughter, Elton Gallegly, Animal Cruelty, Seals, Atlantic Coast, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.

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Quit Horsing Around on Slaughter and Transport

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Congress, Judiciary Committee, Livestock, Dan Burton, Agriculture, Horse, Horses, Animals, House Judiciary Committee, Legislation, Transportation, Mark Kirk, Horse Slaughter, Illinois, Oregon, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Eleven lucky horses got a new lease on life yesterday. Authorities still don't know who discarded the malnourished horses. The owner might not come forward since he/she could face criminal charges.

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South African Wildfire: An Allegory for Journalists

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Reporting, Journalists, Politics, World's Worst Disasters, Horses, Fire, Animals, South Africa, Truth, Barack Obama, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

Journalists have an important moral responsibility to find the path of integrity through moral minefields that have opened old political wounds and ignited a firestorm of misunderstanding about small town America.

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Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rough Riders, Wisdom, Coast Guard Commencement, Gamechangers, Dick Cheney, Bush, Reagan, Beltway Bandits, Humility, Honesty, Lbj, Beauty, Hat, Valor, Cowboy, Horses, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

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