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Jockey Club Must Do More to End Horse Abuse
Tweet Share on Facebook April 9, 2009 Comment (12)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
I blogged earlier this week about New York Times reports on allegations of animal cruelty against Thoroughbred breeder Ernie Paragallo. He's now in custody after a police raid on his farm yesterday:
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Clinton Has an Opportunity to End Taliban Oppression of Women in Afghanistan
Tweet Share on Facebook April 8, 2009 Comment (78)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The U.S. and other international groups interested in the fate of Afghan women should not stop with this success. They should keep on pressing and move Afghan's women's rights to the top of the country's agenda. Without vigilance, there will be retrogression, as the marital rape law's enactment shows.
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Women's Rights Law in Afghanistan Sent Back to Stone Age After Outcry
Tweet Share on Facebook April 8, 2009 Comment (5)Bravo to the human rights activists around the world who muscled up in unison to obliterate one of the most backward laws passed by any country in recent times. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai recently signed into law a bill that approved of marital rape, stipulated that the wife "is bound to preen for her husband as and when he desires," barred wives from "leaving the house without the permission of the husband" unless in a medical or other emergency, and approved child marriage with girls legally able to marry once they began to menstruate. The law, governing Afghanistan's Shiite population (one third of the country) forced women back to Taliban-era (read that, Stone Age) oppression. And that was just the beginning.
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Obama's Trip to Europe a Success, Public Opinion-wise
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2009 Comment (4)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
President Obama's European tour was a success at home, according to several new polls out today:
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The Latest Evidence for Global Warming: Disappearing Arctic Ice
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2009 Comment (6961)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
For those Americans who still cling to the hope that global warming is some liberal stunt and science has yet to prove that man has induced climate change, I have this news to share:
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On the Sad Prevalence of Abuse in the Horse Racing Industry
Tweet Share on Facebook April 6, 2009 Comment (13)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The New York Times has been issuing a steady stream of reports on:
Ernie Paragallo, the prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner whose horses were found emaciated and on their way to slaughter last month, [also] had horses rescued from his Center Brook Farm in 2007. They were starving and required more than a month in an equine hospital in Saratoga Springs.
The Times also wrote:
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The NRA Is Wrong: Guns Do Kill People, as the Pittsburgh Shootings Show
Tweet Share on Facebook April 6, 2009 Comment (84)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
We should all bow our heads in silence for three police officers slain over the weekend by a 23-year-old alleged gunman apparently gone mad by the name of Richard Poplawski:
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As Unemployment Goes, So Goes Commercial Real Estate
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2009 Comment (3)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
The unemployment rate was, while not unexpected, certainly the worst economic news to come out recently. At 8.5 percent, we're nearing the rates in developing nations. Maybe we'll BE a developing nation if companies keep shedding jobs.
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Michelle Obama More Popular (And Less Disliked) Than Barack—An Amazing Rise
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2009 Comment (6)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
President Obama's ability to draw and inspire large crowds has drawn comparisons to rock star status. But if he were a rock star, he might consider handing over the guitar to wife Michelle, if he wanted to sell even more records. This new Gallup poll shows the first lady is more popular with Americans than her husband.
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Rising Use of Food Stamps Shows Why Abortion, Birth Control Are Needed
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2009 Comment (25)By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Some sad but not unexpected government data out today show food stamp usage rising as the economy continues to lose steam:
