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Entries from March 2009

Speaker Pelosi’s Doube Standard Captured in Ink

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

In “Pelosi Attacks AIG (above),” My Personal Litmus offers a graphic depiction of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s insane approach to governance and congressional oversight.

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Three Ways Available to Support BMW

March 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Dear Reader: Whether you’re visiting Bob McCarty Writes for the first time or consider yourself a “regular,” I appreciate your patronage. For the first time in since this blog launched in October 2006, I’m issuing an URGENT APPEAL, asking readers like you to make a contribution to sustain this site.  Lucky for you, several support [...]

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Obama Budget: ‘Economic Suicide and Revolution’

March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama’s profligate spending programs, in aggregate totaling many trillions of dollars, translate to the act of printing money at a rate never seen in human history, writes Doug Ross in a post today.  Experts, from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to Democrat economists, believe that these plans put America on a glide-path to [...]

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British Court Rules: ‘It’s Baby’s Time to Die’

March 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Offering what might be a glimpse into the future of the nation’s health care system under President Barack Obama, the British Broadcasting Corporation published an article this morning about a court ruling that will likely result in doctors unplugging a nine-month-old boy (a.k.a., ‘baby OT”) from the life-sustaining equipment that is keeping him alive. Click [...]

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Soldier’s Heroism Receives Minimal Press Coverage (Updated)

March 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s the stuff about which too few movies are made and not enough books are written:  1st Lt Nicholas Eslinger’s willingness to give his own life in order to save the lives of his fellow soldiers earned the West Point graduate the Silver Star for gallantry in action on Oct. 1, 2008, while in support [...]

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‘Fashion Criminal’ AIG Exec Should ‘Just Ché No!’

March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Though I’ve taken stands against federal government bailouts to the “too big to fail” AIG and favored allowing the insurance giant to award retention bonuses to its best employees, everything* changed for me after I came across a photo (left) of Gerry Pasciucco wearing a t-shirt bearing the black-and-white image of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara.  The [...]

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Militia Movement Controversy Affords Baldwin Opportunity to Teach Important History Lesson

March 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This morning, I read an article by former Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin that brought to my mind the wise words attributed to Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana more than 100 years ago:  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Baldwin wrote the article after his name — as well [...]

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