Bob McCarty Writes

Hitwise.com, an outfit that tracks and measures web site traffic, kept tabs on site traffic at the websites of 2008 Republican presidential candidates last week. They found results that might surprise everyone except the candidates themselves. Most noteworthy among their findings was the fact that Mike Huckabee, a so-called second-tier candidate, finished more than five [...]

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An AFP article, Judge rules Gore climate film requires guidance notes, contains news that can only be characterized by Al Gore as “bad.” The article begins this way: A judge on Wednesday ruled that Al Gore’s award winning climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” should only be shown in schools with guidance notes to prevent [...]

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T-shirts bearing designs related to current events have received quite a bit of publicity in recent weeks. For instance: Last month, after University of Florida student Andrew Meyer gained much attention for uttering the phrase, “Don’t taze me, bro!”, this blogger became the first to launch a popular line of Don’t Taze Me, Bro! t-shirts [...]

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Yesterday, this blogger spent the day as a tourist in Chicago. But I didn’t play “tourist” the entire time. In fact, I played “lost tourist” for a couple of the 11 hours spent in the Windy City. As a result, I experienced aspects of life on the city’s south side few tourists see. And did [...]

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