Bob McCarty Writes

Remember back in May when I reported disturbing news about John and Judy Dollarhite facing $4 million in USDA fines for selling too many bunnies?   That news was followed by a dozen and a half posts about federal agents bullying the Nixa, Mo., couple as well as several others across the country — even magicians [...]

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The visual I found on the official website of U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) at 9:42 a.m. Central today seems an appropriate metaphor for the way the longtime congressman-turned freshman senator and members of his staff have rushed to the aide of Nixa, Mo., resident John Dollarhite. Two months ago, Dollarhite contacted Senator Blunt for [...]

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Facing a July 29 deadline, John and Judy Dollarhite of Nixa, Mo., responded Friday to officials at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service with a “Substitute Stipulation Agreement” that, hopefully, will allow the couple to avoid fines of up to $4 million in fines for selling too many bunnies. The substitute agreement, prepared [...]

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Humane Society Lawyers Fight Culture of Cruelty, Government Bureaucracy. Soon after reading the words above, which appeared as the headline of an article published in November 2007 on the University of Virginia School of Law website, I discovered something ironic about Sarah L. Conant. According to HumaneWatch, Conant is a 2006 graduate of the University [...]

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More than a month has passed since I published news about out-of-control agents from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service going after a couple in Nixa, Mo., for selling more than $500 worth of rabbits in a calendar year.  Today, I offer an update likely to upset those who’ve been following the case [...]

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Twenty-five days after breaking the story about John and Judy Dollarhite facing $4 million in fines for selling bunnies, the couple is expecting a visitor today at their home in tiny Nixa, Mo., 30 minutes south of Springfield. At 3 p.m. Central, one or more representatives of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [...]

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Be sure to LISTEN LIVE Friday at 10 a.m. Central as I make a guest appearance on Commonsense Coalition Talk Radio, a program hosted by Beth Schoeneberg that airs ONLINE and on 43 stations in 19 states. I’ll be talking with Schoeneberg about “Chasing Rabbits,” a series of nearly a dozen posts in which I [...]

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