Horses

Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics


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.

Quit Horsing Around on Slaughter and Transport

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics


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.

South African Wildfire: An Allegory for Journalists

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.08.2008 | Home


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.

Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics


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.