Bob McCarty Writes

Much to my surprise, I learned today that my March 9 post, Heroic Name Given to Photo of President Obama, had earned a spot among Blogrunner’s “most influential” writings on the subject of stem cells. In case you’re not familiar with it, Blogrunner is a service owned by The New York Times that automatically monitors [...]

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Lunacy on steroids. That’s how I might describe the United Nations “climate change” plan that is the subject of a recent Fox News article that caught my attention yesterday. After reading the article by George Russell, executive editor at Fox News, I’m forced to conclude that the global warming alarmists may have finally reached the [...]

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While checking out Google Trends just after Noon Central today, I noticed “True mom confessions” was the top search term and decided to check out the “volcanic” interest in the site.  Once there, I discovered what I think was the cause of so much interest (i.e., a confession, shown in the graphic above, that appears [...]

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s tour of Missouri’s “fusion center” on March 11 was her first visit to a state fusion center since joining President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Governor Jay Nixon briefed Napolitano on the workings of the fusion center, known as the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC). The words above, which appeared as [...]

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Uproar over a document (pdf) linking various right-wing organizations with the modern militia movement prompted the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Wednesday to cease distribution of the report prepared by its agency, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, according to an article published in the Southeast Missourian today.  If, however, you think the controversy is over, [...]

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While reporting on President Barack Obama’s use of the word, “Uhh,” once every 9 seconds during an hour-long news conference Tuesday, I barely mentioned his shift away from the use of a traditional teleprompter to a large-screen monitor placed at the back of the room full of reporters. Others, however, paid more attention to the [...]

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Ben Bernanke earned the nickname “Helicopter Ben” for comments he made in a November 2002 speech, Deflation: Making Sure “It” Doesn’t Happen Here, delivered at the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C.  More than six years later, some are wont to apply a new nickname, “Banana Ben,” to the Federal Reserve chairman. He has earned [...]

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