Bob McCarty Writes

A crowd estimated at 17,000 welcomed John McCain and Sarah Palin to Missouri. An estimated 17,000 supporters turned out this afternoon at T.R. Hughes Ballpark, home of the River City Rascals minor league baseball team in O’Fallon, Mo., to welcome Republican presidential nominee-to-be John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to the Show-Me State.  [...]

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FYI: I’ll be out of pocket for a while this afternoon as I attend the John McCain-Sarah Palin rally at T.R. Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon, Mo.  Hopefully, I’ll return chock-full of tidbit about which to write.  Until then… * * * UPDATE:  See Huge Crowd Welcomes McCain-Palin to Missouri

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Moments ago, officials in New Orleans issued a mandatory evacuation order in advance of the expected arrival of Hurricane Gustav, a Category 4 storm at the moment, as early as Monday morning. The information below appears on the City of New Orleans web site under the headline below: Click to see City of New Orleans [...]

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The shooter of the video below — shot with a video camera while aboard a commercial aircraft en route from Denver to Charlotte following the Democratic National Convention — wrote this in a post at RedState.com this afternoon: On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats’ convention, I found myself seated behind former [...]

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Bullying takes place on the school playground and in the political arena.  It also takes place in the world of big business. The video below shows Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters program, addressing the audience at the recent HOPE hackercon about the way the popular cable television network was bullied by representatives of [...]

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Saying Sarah Palin differs with John McCain on most public education issues, an official with the always-too-far-to-the-left National Education Association offered some surprisingly-gracious comments about the first woman to appear on a Republican presidential ticket. “The 3.2 million members of the National Education Association are pleasantly surprised by Senator John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor [...]

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If the non-liberal, non-Democrat accounts I’ve read about Sarah Palin today are accurate, the Alaska governor appears to be a no-holds-barred anti-corruption Republican who doesn’t mince words and is not afraid to take on a challenge.   That in mind, I wish we had more politicians like her in Missouri to take care of government excess like [...]

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