Bob McCarty Writes

The Bullwinkle cartoon character who hit Saturday morning television screens during the 1950s was famous for saying, “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat,” seconds before he would pull out a roaring lion’s head. The difference between Barack Obama and Bullwinkle is this: As a kid, I truly believed Bullwinkle would [...]

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Today, after visiting the American Minute and reading about the 205th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, I began to ponder how things might have turned out if today’s liberals had been in charge of Congress at the time. I came up with Five Ways Today’s Congressional Liberals Would Have Screwed Up the Louisiana Purchase: 1. [...]

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Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. More incredibly, the magazine reports, one blogger “saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper type of gun.” [...]

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Politics is everywhere, but have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a television game show full of political questions and answers that are politically incorrect? Bruce Chapman has, and the result is a humorous audio parody he calls, “The $25,000 Triangle.” To listen to it, click here and enjoy!

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Despite neighborhood association rules that require properties in my subdivision to be maintained in good shape, once in a while someone falls behind on mowing their grass. Last summer, one of my neighbors fell behind. As a practical joke, I left a message — “MOW” — in his yard while he was away. The “M” [...]

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I happened across a great article on the public education system today. It comes from South Carolina and begins this way: The State Newspaper ran an article on Monday with the heart-wrenching title: Teachers take 2nd jobs to help make ends meet. The story primarily focuses on one young teacher (she works at the restaurant [...]

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Efforts to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD — instead of Cinco De Mayo — continue despite a government public relations counter-effort that surfaced today in the form of a news release issued by the U.S. Census Bureau: Cinco de Mayo celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a [...]

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