Bob McCarty Writes

What a discovery! Lloyd Marcus’ recently-recorded song, “American Tea Party,” deserves to go down in history as the anthem of the American Tea Party Movement. Just as I sat down to watch the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (a.k.a., “The Big Dance”) this evening, two posts written about the song arrived in my inbox as part [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Having spent more than three years as an Air Force officer living and working just a few miles down the road from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on the island of Okinawa, I have a lot of respect for Marines.  Combine that respect with my love of high-performance aircraft, and I simply had [...]

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Two earth-rattling events took place on opposite sides of Planet Earth this afternoon, leaving many to wonder (1) if they are somehow related and (2) which will cause the most damage. The first event took place just before one o’clock Eastern.  According to this report, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives acted “with lightning speed” [...]

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President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons! Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan: “The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse [...]

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There seems to be a lot of interest in a Missouri Information Analysis Center report described by one writer as offering “chilling instructions” about how to identify members of the “modern militia movement.” Issued recently to members of the Missouri law enforcement community, the report caught my attention and became the subject of a post [...]

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Two days after news surfaced about President Barack Obama’s plan to charge wounded war veterans for treatment, the White House on Wednesday backed off a controversial plan that would have dramatically altered the way the Department of Veterans Affairs handles insurance claims, after veterans groups staged an all-out fight against such a proposal. According to [...]

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As a public service, I offer the second in a series of posts intended to help readers of this blog distinguish between rhetoric and economic reality when it comes to matters impacting the nation’s energy future: RHETORIC: Taxes targeting the oil and natural gas industry are okay because they don’t affect consumers or other industries. [...]

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