Bob McCarty Writes

It should come as no surprise to anyone why the nation’s newspapers are rapidly losing their power and influence and why they’re struggling to remain afloat by cutting costs wherever possible. Put simply, newspapers are out of touch and dying, being replaced by citizen journalists. Evidence of this sad-but-true phenomenon can be found in the [...]

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The folks over at the Donklephant and Central Sanity blogs asked me to consider signing a letter that, if enough signatures are collected, will be forwarded to leaders of the Republican National Committee, to all GOP governors and members of the U.S. House and Senate. The body of the letter begins this way: We, the [...]

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Thanks go out to all loyal Bob McCarty Writes readers, blogger friends and members of the news media who’ve helped this blog surpass the 100,000-page views threshold minutes ago — a full three weeks ahead of its one-year anniversary! Here’s a recap of some of this blog’s most-popular posts: My Father’s War Stories from World [...]

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I’ve blogged a couple of times about the recent come-speak-to-us event for 2008 presidential candidates hosted by the National Rifle Association. Someone else — late night television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel — decided to have some fun with the phone-call-from-the-wife portion of Rudy Giuliani’s speech before members of the gun rights group. Take a [...]

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My five-minute appearance on The Mancow Show (a.k.a., “Mancow Morning Madness”) this morning was a blast! The graphic above is a mancow.com screenshot featuring the list of guests for today’s show. Among the notables who appear below me on the guest list are Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and Alan Alda, the [...]

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