Bob McCarty Writes

By Bob McCarty Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty Writes.  All rights reserved.  To request reprint permission, send an e-mail to BobMcCartyWrites (at) gmail (dot) com. * * * A controversy with life-and-death implications has been brewing for 12 months over the Army’s decision to deploy the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held lie detector, [...]

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Photographer Julian Wolkenstein proved he can be successful while “horsing around.”  Evidence can be found in his recently-publicize photographs of horses with hair extensions. Shown at left in the photo above, a photo of a horse with chestnut-colored hair extensions accompanied an article about Wolkenstein’s work that appeared in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper yesterday.  It [...]

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From the “unbelievably-strange news” file comes news about a 10-year-old business, ConjugalHarmony.com, that connects female prison inmates with men from the outside. The antithesis of eHarmony.com, this business bills itself as “the oldest, most trusted name in conjugal dating” and banks on the slogan, “The nagging stops when the bars slam shut!” The company’s web [...]

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Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary offers several definitions of the word, “pack.”  When it comes to members of the mainstream media and their treatment of the subject of Americans without health insurance, blogger Doug Ross found that one definition is most applicable:  “A set of persons with a common interest.” Contrary to the stories linked to by [...]

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Simultaneous studies released this week show soaring costs of illegal immigration in Florida and demonstrate strong voter objections to the burdens placed on them by illegal immigration. A new Zogby International poll of 801 likely voters across the state found that, by an overwhelming margin, Floridians believe that illegal immigration is harming their state. Their [...]

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