Bob McCarty Writes

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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Few can argue about the need to improve the nation’s public education system.  Unfortunately, those in charge of making those improvements — notably, President Barack Obama and members of the Democrat-controlled Congress — believe the solution involves throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at the broken system.  And that’s simply not the case. To understand how [...]

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One year after I offered to save Ford Motor Company $27.5 million by accepting an annual salary of $2 million in exchange for serving as the company’s CEO, I realized I should have made the offer to serve as the boss at General Motors instead. New GM CEO Fritz Henderson is quoted in an autobloggreen [...]

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From Oklahoma comes disturbing news that the state senate has dismissed a controversial bill (HB1645) that would have prohibited Islamic head scarves, or hijabs, on driver’s licenses photographs and photo IDs. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization dubbed two years ago as an “unindicted co-conspirator” by federal prosecutors in a Hamas funding case, hailed [...]

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The P.U.M.A., a new Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility vehicle, reminds me of a wheelchair on steroids. Officials from Segway and General Motors appeared on NBC’s The Today Show this morning to tout the prototype of the vehicle described on Segway’s The Last Mile blog as follows: Built off of the proven reliable and safe [...]

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In an American Thinker opinion piece today, Cliff Thier expresses grave concern about the future of Israel and worries that President Barack Obama will use U.S. Air Force assets to prevent Israeli forces from taking out Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.  Among other things, he writes: Israel knows it must do take out the nuclear weapons [...]

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