Bob McCarty Writes

During the past week, I published 10 articles about John and Judy Dollarhite, the Nixa, Mo., couple handed a $90,643 fine by the USDA for selling more than $500 worth of rabbits in a single calendar year.  Four of my articles were cross-posted at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and one was linked by The Daily Caller, [...]

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Having spent much of the past five days “Chasing Rabbits,” I was excited to see a headline related to my work appear on the Drudge Report just after midnight (i.e., early early early Thursday morning): USDA fines Missouri family $90k for selling rabbits without license… “My rabbit story made Drudge!” I thought to myself upon [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: During the past several days, I’ve been reporting about “Chasing Rabbits,” the name I’ve given to the case of the USDA assessing John and Judy Dollarhite a fine of $90,643 because the Nixa, Mo., couple sold more than $500 worth of rabbits in a calendar year.  Along the way, I came across second-hand [...]

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I think I can say with a high degree of confidence that the USDA appears to be caving when it comes to the matter of “Chasing Rabbits,” the name I’ve given to the case of the USDA assessing John and Judy Dollarhite a fine of $90,643 because the Nixa, Mo., couple sold more than $500 [...]

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Paying a USDA fine of $90,643 by close of business Monday would have allowed John and Judy Dollarhite on Nixa, Mo., to put their “crime” of selling too many rabbits in a single calendar year in their proverbial “rear-view mirror.”  Instead of paying an exorbitant fine for violating an obscure USDA regulation (not a law), [...]

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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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