Bob McCarty Writes

Associated Press was quick to give Barack Obama an out when it came to the possibility that he might have some involvement with the corruption scandal surrounding Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.).  On Tuesday, the news cartel published a brief under the headline, Obama: No contact with Blagojevich on Senate seat. I’m not so quick to [...]

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In a Politico.com post today, Ben Smith writes about censorship of citizens’ input in a new section launched today on Barack Obama’s Transition Team web site, Change.gov: President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another’s questions, bringing favored inquiries to [...]

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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) sent a letter to President George W. Bush late yesterday asking him to commute the sentences and issue pardons for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos. In October 2006, Ramos and Compean were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison after shooting an illegal immigrant who was [...]

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Forty-five days after publishing news about Odell Stukes Jr. being suspended for refusing to remove a Barack Obama cap while on the job, the Obama Cap Flap continues. According to a new Suburban Journals report, the St. Louis-area bus driver involved in the case has been unable to get the American Civil Liberties Union or [...]

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In Bristol, Charlotte, Daytona Beach and other places where NASCAR® is king, it makes sense for people to go around in circles — or, more accurately, ovals — en route to achieving success.  That kind of “circular logic,” however, isn’t likely to produce success in Detroit. Facing declining ad revenue and lower attendance, NASCAR® executives [...]

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