Bob McCarty Writes

Illogical. That’s the only word that seems to apply to writer Steve Daly’s attempt in the latest edition of Newsweek to compare President Barack Obama to Mr. Spock, the half-Vulcan, half-human character who plays first officer to Capt. James T. Kirk, commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise, in the sci-fi television-film franchise known as “Star Trek.” [...]

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Barack Obama’s Left Me In A “First 100 Daze.” That’s the message I’ll be carrying when I join members of The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition and other radical right-wingers tomorrow protesting President Barack Obama — and what the New York Post described yesterday as 100 Days, 100 Mistakes — during his town hall meeting [...]

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“I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.” — President Barack Obama, Feb. 23, 2009. The words of President Obama, spoken only three days into his first — and, hopefully, only — term, ring [...]

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The chair of a national organization that educates the public and medical community about preventing infection shared some observations about the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that are especially poignant in light of today’s fears about Swine Flu. The SARS outbreak teaches that rigorous infection control in hospitals may be key to limiting [...]

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Front-page editors at USA TODAY International Edition must be wishing they had picked a different top-of-page teaser to appear on the front-page of their print edition published today.  Nowhere was there a mention of the Swine Flu outbreak that has raised concerns in the United States, Mexico and other countries in recent days. Instead, I [...]

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Speaking before an audience at the National Academy of Sciences Monday morning, President Barack Obama starred in yet another impromptu episode of the ongoing saga, “Teleprompters Gone Wild!” The technologically-challenged orator began to name members of his Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology despite the fact that, only a few minutes earlier in [...]

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This week, I’ll be writing follow-up pieces on two interesting subjects, both of which hinge on discovering who is telling the truth in pressure-packed situations: Later this morning, I’ll be interviewing Andrew Woods, a Huffington Post blogger and Harvard Law School graduate who is one of the attorneys for the Amazon Defense Coalition in its [...]

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