Bob McCarty Writes

After President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, a confusing headline appeared above an article published on the front page of the Army web site:  President orders 12,000 Soldiers, Marines to Afghanistan. Appearing with a photo of soldiers in combat, the headline runs counter to the statements [...]

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An experience with Google this morning caused me to wonder whether or not the search giant is involved in helping President Barack Obama break his transparency pledge. Soon after reading an interesting piece, The Dying Art of the Crime Blotter, in The New York Times, the journalism-trained killer inside me wondered how journalism might be [...]

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Today’s headlines “weigh in” on the so-called “Economic Stimulus Package,” offer news about the unveiling a new professional sports team’s mascot and provide a glimpse of a piece of James Bond-style spy gadget that reminds me of a toy my boys played with when they were younger: Dave Foulk reveals that he had ran the [...]

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On Friday the 13th, I made my fourth appearance on The Curtis Sliwa Show, a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that airs weeknights on ABC Radio Network flagship station 77 WABC in New York City and is carried on stations in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, among others. Host Curtis Sliwa and I discussed the [...]

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This morning’s headlines offer a strange blend of news and advice. Falling into the “news” category, “Green Ammunition” is the order of the day for the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. In the “advice” category, I found two pearls of wisdom: First, never stop at Starbucks when you’re carrying $300,000 worth [...]

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Believe it or not, global warming alarmists appear to be excited about drilling.  Not just any drilling, mind you, but drilling into the ground!  Before you get too excited, however, you must know that the kind of drilling about which they are excited will do nothing to reduce this country’s dependence on foreign oil. According [...]

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I read a piece of news over the weekend about a blood pressure pill that might be able to erase bad memories.  According to findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the possibility exists for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems related to bad memories to simply take a pill to forget [...]

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