Lily pressed herself right next to glass, crying, letting the tears run down her face, not even trying to stop them. She watched as the colt was loaded into machine, and started to try and call out to him.
"NO!" she yelled, running to the door and wrenching it open, "STOP!!STOP!!" She immediately wished she hadn't opened the door. As she did, the man there smiled unpleasantly at her, and hit the flip.
She heard the colt cry out, and whinny anxiously to her. Tears streamed down her face as she ran to switch and tried to turn it off.
Nothing worked, and the horrible shredded came down. "AHHH!!!"...

With all the other problems piling up — soaring energy costs, the war in Iraq, tens of millions of Americans with no health-care insurance, skyrocketing federal debt — Republicans were bound to get a kick in the rear when the only bill they considered this week on the House floor was one to look out for the welfare of horses. Democrats stampeded to complain. "I'm concerned about horses, but I'm much much more concerned about the American people," snapped House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Others threatened to vote "neigh" just to get in a pun.
But hold your horses. (And that is this story's...

Yep. That's right. If the BLM keeps rounding up wild horses at this pace, there won't be any mustangs to speak of in a decade or two.

Mustangs in America used to be plentiful. Millions of them ran all across the country. Yes. Across the WHOLE country. But, over the years, mustangs have tragically lost their homes, and the mustang population dropped dramatically.

It may seem weird to us, to picture mustangs all across the country, from New York, to Virginia, to Wisconsin, to the west where they live today. But that's becuase for as long as we can remember, they were only in the west. And it's...