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21 Feb 2024, 9:00 am
” The domestic use of troops has been a fact of life and a matter of controversy at least since President George Washington called out the militia to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:50 am
Similarly, a mechanical engineer may be able to explain the forces at play on a racehorse’s legs in running a race, but if the issue is what to do to avoid injury in running a race, a jockey qualified by years of practical experience in riding horses in races, can more credibly answer the question than the mechanical engineer. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 1:15 pm
Soring is a practice in which trainers deliberately inflict pain on the legs and hooves of horses to produce an exaggerated gait known as the “big lick” that is rewarded in show circuits for Tennessee Walking Horses and related breeds. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 7:18 am
Notes to Geldon: Washington is not the Great White Way; neither Geldon nor Sen. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 11:58 am
” “The Horse Protection Act of 1970 made the public exhibition, showing or sale of horses victimized by soring illegal, but since then a segment of the industry has flouted the law and continued the practice, exploiting loopholes in the underlying regulations,” said Gillian Lyons, director of regulatory affairs at the Humane Society Legislative Fund. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 11:55 am
., dashed Oreskes’ hopes of testifying as an historian, and told her not to bother coming to Washington for trial.[5] Naomi Oreskes is a “professor of the History of Science, in Harvard University. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 5:16 am
Whether the administration will succeed is questionable—the Frightful Five have a strong lobbying presence in Washington—but one thing is clear: The climate in D.C. around the tech sector has changed. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 8:05 am
National polling consistently shows that Americans overwhelmingly support ending horse slaughter, including a poll this year finding that 83% of Americans want to see it permanently banned. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am
Documents Show Big Foreign Government Spending at Trump Hotel MSN – Bernard Condon (Associated Press) | Published: 11/15/2022 The Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. took in more than $750,000 from six foreign governments at sensitive moments in their U.S. relations, with guests spending as much as $10,000 per room a night, according to documents released by a congressional committee. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 3:08 pm
Humane groups celebrate pivotal move in Congress to end cruelty of horse soring kblocher@hslf.org Mon, 11/14/2022 - 23:08 Humane groups celebrate pivotal move in Congress to end cruelty of horse soring WASHINGTON (November 14, 2022)—Today, the House of Representatives approved the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, H.R. 5441, by an overwhelming 304 to 111 bipartisan vote. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 7:00 am
Horses and carriages in front of funeral home of C.W. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 3:10 pm
” “The Horse Protection Act made the public exhibition, showing or sale of horses victimized by soring illegal upon its passage in 1970, but since then a segment of the industry has flouted the law and continued the practice, exploiting loopholes in the underlying regulations,” said Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 4:53 am
The bill would amend the federal Horse Protection Act to eliminate industry-self policing, ban soring devices and strengthen penalties for soring, in which unscrupulous trainers use painful techniques to induce an artificially high-stepping gait in some show horses. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 5:00 am
Here is the column: At the height of the Stalinist purges, Soviet internal affairs minister Lavrentiy Beria famously boasted: “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime. [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 12:39 am
The dispute related to the defendant’s interactive dining show, the “Only Fools The (Cushty) Dining Experience” in which actors would play the various Only Fools and Horses characters in a different context (an interactive pub quiz) from the original OFAH series. [read post]
24 May 2022, 3:31 pm
” “American horses don’t belong on foreign dinner plates or painfully sored for a blue ribbon in a show ring. [read post]
16 May 2022, 7:24 am
The showing was a great loss of face for the military and for Min Aung Hlaing. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 7:51 am
Native Law Group is currently seeking candidates for its Summer 2022 Clerkships in both of our office locations: Louisville, Colorado and Washington, D.C. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 3:00 am
” A federal filing shows Freedom Works paid Whitaker $400,000 last year in unspecified “consulting” fees. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 12:22 am
This bipartisan bill targets the wanton cruelty of horse soring, which is perpetuated by the “Big Lick” faction of the Tennessee walking horse show industry. [read post]
