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...lobbyist by slaughter proponents. "Somebody is putting money into this for a lobbyist to be on it," says Pickens. He warned Barton that people were getting worked up over the issue. "I told him when you get women like my wife and Paula Bacon involved, you give ?em an ax and they'll do some chopping." So Barton called a hearing Tuesday before a House of Representatives Energy & Commerce subcommittee. (A commerce subcommittee since proponents contend that banning horse slaughtering for food sales violates commerce laws.) The House Majority leader, John Boehner, has said the House will vote...
Farewell to FEMA? Another hit to the disaster agency The Senate voted last week to replace the Federal Emergency Management Agency with a new disaster-relief office. But the House wants to reform, not ax, FEMA--which means it may live to see another hurricane season...
Strong sales are the only measure of success that really matter for any of the new dishes that will soon appear on the menu. The lasagna got the ax, but the Bolognese sauce with white truffle oil will get a shot as a pasta entrée, along with a spinach, poached-chicken and bacon salad, a crab hash made with potatoes and onions and the pasta with four roasted tomato sauces--including puttanesca without anchovies. If they don't sell, they're gone, no matter how much Overton or any critic loves or loathes them...
...aggressive and prone to violence today, and at earlier ages, than they were back then. Rosemond isn't advising parents to break out the whip. He simply points out that existing research on spanking is unpersuasive. "There is no evidence gathered by anyone who doesn't have an ideological ax to grind that suggests spanking per se is psychologically harmful," he says...
...unusual incident," says Canadian Forces spokeswoman Captain Julie Roberge in Kandahar. A military investigation of the Shinkay attack has so far turned up no evidence of a planned ambush. All the same, the episode has rattled Canadian troops. Says Roberge: "As a soldier you expect gunfire, not an ax...