Bob McCarty Writes

Two days after learning Michael E. Carter had lost his Democratic Party primary bid for Missouri’s lieutenant governor position, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the headline, Missouri Robo-Call Candidate Loses in Landslide. Today, however, my post-primary bliss turned to disappointment upon learning the “robo-call candidate” has reinvented himself and pulled “a Lieberman.” Remember Lieberman?  Sen. Joe [...]

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would do Americans a favor by learning more about the Perdido Regional Development Spar and discarding her misguided talking points about how it would take 10 years or more to reap benefits from new offshore drilling efforts Congress might approve. As the son of a now-retired petroleum geologist, I [...]

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Saying Russia’s attack on Georgia in 2008 must have consequences, one group is asking people worldwide to sign an online petition and demand that the 2014 Winter Olympics be moved from Sochi, Russia, to a new site. Though the folks behind the group are not identified on the petition site, others involved in the effort [...]

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“You might be a redneck soldier if you mount a high-energy laser weapon system on the back of your government-issued pickup truck.” I wouldn’t be surprised to hear comedian Jeff Foxworthy say this one day in the near future.  Until then, we’ll count on the folks at Boeing to put together the mobile laser weapon [...]

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Photos accompanying an article at the Gateway Pundit blog show that tickets for Barack Obama‘s nomination acceptance speech on the last day of the Democratic National Convention feature the American flag printed upside down — an international signal of distress — on both sides.  Is this a signal that the Barack Obama campaign is in [...]

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