Bob McCarty Writes

Who’s missing from the caricature above?  It appears the right answer might be Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general picked yesterday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. I base this assessment upon the content of a National Legal and Policy Center report published over 5 years ago [...]

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Typical of a slimy politician, it took only three weeks for Chicago’s Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) to do a “180″ and reverse himself on the matter of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D-Ill.) appointing Barack Obama’s replacement in the U.S. Senate. On Dec. 9, the day FBI agents arrested Governor Blagojevich on corruption charges, the Chicago Sun-Times [...]

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Seeing this holiday season as the perfect time to give their small community of 13,000 residents a “gift” that keeps on giving, city officials in St. Ann, Mo., had red-light cameras installed at two intersections adjacent St. Louis’ Lambert International Airport. This morning, I happened to notice the cameras — which were not there five [...]

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When I served as an Air Force public affairs officer years ago, I had the privilege of working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on several crowd-pleasing occasions.  Therefore, when I saw the team — formally known as the “U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron” — had released the schedule for its 56th season, I [...]

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It appears I blew it when it came to predicting the outcomes of the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played last night in San Diego. In my second annual college football bowl game predictions post, I had picked #13 Oklahoma State to defeat #17 Oregon, 29-20.  Unfortunately, the Ducks had other plans for the Cowboys of [...]

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The Israeli Defense Force Channel launched on YouTube yesterday, enabling IDF officials to share with the world unfiltered examples of, among other things, their precision air strike capabilities. The video below serves as an example of how they can strike Hamas targets deep within Gaza while minimizing damage and injury to civilians:

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Though mostly negative, there’s no shortage of online and offline buzz about the economy.  In the cartoon above, David Donar at Political Graffiti puts a humorous spin on the topic.  I simply say, “Happy New Year!”

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