Bob McCarty Writes

Below is a recap of all the posts published at BobMcCarty.com during the week of May 15, 2011: MONDAY, May 16 Wrongly-Convicted Soldier ‘Celebrates’ 28th Birthday Behind Bars at Fort Leavenworth — Michael Behenna will “celebrate” his 28th birthday behind bars. Michael’s parents use that word loosely, of course, because there are no cakes and [...]

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The story of John and Judy Dollarhite, the Nixa, Mo., couple facing up to $4 million in USDA fines for selling too many rabbits in a calendar year is gaining traction with several on- and offline news outlets. Since breaking Thursday, the story has been picked up by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, Fox News Channel’s Fox [...]

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John and Judy Dollarhite netted approximately $200 profit in 2009 from the sale of 440 rabbits raised on their three-acre property in tiny Nixa, Mo.  That, however, constituted a serious violation of the law, according to officials with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.  And everyone knows you can’t sell more than $500 [...]

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A real he-said-she-said battle is brewing over the matter of a family facing up to $4 million in fines for selling bunnies out of their home in Nixa, Mo. Recently, John and Judy Dollarhite received a “Certified Mail Return Receipt” letter (dated April 19, 2011) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health [...]

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Almost nine months after a Missouri dairy was ordered to stop selling cheese made from raw milk, I share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State:  John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must pay a fine exceeding $90,000.  If [...]

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If the volume of email and letters being exchanged is a good indicator, high gas prices are causing a “War of Words” to take place across this country. Yesterday, some dear friends of mine who, unlike yours truly, spend very little time engaged in politics forwarded to me a copy of an electronic “thank you” [...]

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Consider the scenario below presented by a caller from Indiana to conservative radio talker Dana Loesch, host of The Dana Show which airs in both St. Louis and Indianapolis: An armed intruder busts down the front door of your home in the middle of the night while you and members of your family are asleep [...]

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