In picking Ryan, Romney may have hoped to deflect concern from jobs to Ryan's hobby horse of the deficit.
Rhymney Brewery has signed a licensing agreement with a Melbourne-based company to brew and distribute its Hobby Horse ale for the Pacific region.
Steve Evans, who revived brewing in Dowlais after a gap of more than 25 years, said the company's Hobby Horse beer would be the only Welsh ale on sale in Australia.
The result has been an open process, when the Backbench Business Committee could very easily have turned into a mechanism for allowing debates on the hobby horse subjects of its members.
Which leads me on to the larger point and one that is something of a personal hobby horse of mine: the way we tend to look at the economics of recycling.
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Al Gore's hobby horse is also breathing new life into the ultimate Transie project: the imposition of international taxation ("globotaxes") to finance the various causes and institutions favored by transnational progressives.
It is indeed a hobby horse of mine and has been for some time: when we include the collection costs there really are some things where recycling wastes resources, not saves them.
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William Rehnquist, the chief justice, has fought a long and often lonely battle to roll back what he sees as the overextension of federal power, a subject which is also a hobby horse of many Republican politicians.
Is a venture (say, horse breeding) a real business or a hobby, for which losses aren't deductible?
If you report a profit in three years out of five--or two out of seven in the case of some horse ventures--the presumption is that your business wasn't a hobby, and it's up to the IRS to prove otherwise.
He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.
Horse breeding is a favorite target of the IRS, when it comes to the hobby loss rules.
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