Finally - our government is acting to solve a crisis that, for too long, has festered like an open wound in our society. I'm talking about regulating magicians and the animals that appear - or disappear - in their acts. Via Ed Morrissey, we discover that the US Department of Agriculture is on the case. Washington Post: Marty Hahne, 54, does magic shows for kids in southern Missouri. For his big finale, he pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Or out of a picnic basket. Or out of a tiny library, if he's doing his routine about reading being magical. To do that, Hahne has an official U.S. government license. Not for the magic. For the rabbit. The Agriculture Department requires it, citing a decades-old law that was intended to regulate zoos and circuses. Today, the USDA also uses it to regulate much smaller "animal exhibitors," even the humble one-bunny magician. That was what the letter was about. The government had a new rule. To keep his rabbit license, Hahne needed to write a rabbit...(Read Full Post)