Bob McCarty Writes

Did Secretary of Education Arne Duncan encourage the beating of students when he served as chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools?  Maybe not.  It appears, however, that he provided tacit endorsement of the practice via his failure to take action to stop it. Chicago television station CBS2 reported yesterday that hundreds of students [...]

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Yesterday, I noted the stark differences between President Barack Obama and the two candidates running for Israeli prime minister in today’s elections in my post, Israeli Elections Hang in the Balance.  By mid-afternoon today, exit polls should begin to show the results of the elections and provide the world a glimpse of the future of [...]

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Tragically, writes Betsy McCaughey in an opinion piece published by Bloomberg yesterday, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped into the so-called “economic stimulus package” without discussion. And that opinion piece by McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and current adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has the nation [...]

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Last night, President Barack Obama proved himself unskilled when it came to handling the following question — or, more accurately, set of related questions — asked by Fox News Channel’s Senior White House Correspondent Major Garrett: “Mr. President, at a speech Friday that many of us covered, Vice President Biden said the following thing about [...]

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UPDATE 2/10/09 at 11:55 a.m. Central: The U.S. Senate just passed the now-$838 billion “economic stimulus plan by a vote of 61-37. It now moves to a conference committee where members of both the House and Senate will iron out their differences over the bill before voting on it again and, presumably, forwarding it to [...]

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The New York Times appears to be at it again, publishing false information Sunday about gun crimes in the form of an article, The Virginia Tech Betrayal.  Fortunately, the folks at the National Rifle Association are able to correct the record and prove that the clowns at the “newspaper of record” are wrong. The first [...]

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It’s hard to believe two years have passed since then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama announced he would be seeking the Democrat Party nomination for president in 2008.  As much as things have changed, however, some things remain the same. On Feb. 10, 2007, I published a post, Candidate Barack’s Words Ring Hollow, in which I highlighted [...]

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