Bob McCarty Writes

By Lloyd Marcus Guest Blogger Coming from the projects, the story of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is inspiring. Ironically, the success of Obama, a black, and Sotomayor, a Latina, epitomizes the availability of the American Dream to minorities as well as the greatness of America. And yet, both harbor resentments and [...]

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Actor Craig T. Nelson, the actor who starred in the ABC sitcom, “Coach,” from 1989-1997, said, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore” during a discussion of excessive taxation on Fox News Channel’s The Gleen Beck Show today. Though the phrase was borrowed from Eddie Chiles, the Texas oil man [...]

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The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will hit consumers of petroleum fuels especially hard by dramatically increasing the costs of goods and services as noted in the graphic at right, according to two groups closely following the legislation. In a three-page document (pdf) forwarded to me early this afternoon, American Petroleum Institute officials warn that people who [...]

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“We can’t rest on our laurels, because we’ve got a lot of work to do.” President Barack Obama was only half-right when, according to Reuters, he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California.  Why?  Because, as evidenced by the post-stimulus unemployment claims chart shown above, the laurels [...]

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Should Japan replace the “secret weapon” that has protected the East Asian nation for more than 60 years with nuclear weapons?  That’s the question many people are asking in the wake of North Korea detonating a nuclear weapon and firing missiles earlier this week. In the video above, Charles Krauthammer tells a Fox News Channel [...]

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Jerome Ersland, a 57-year-old Oklahoma City pharmacist, is in court today, facing first-degree murder charges for his role in the May 19 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker. The video above shows how things went down:  Parker and an accomplice entered Reliable Discount Pharmacy while brandishing handguns and wearing ski masks; Ersland reacted by using [...]

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The cartoon above captures perfectly the best nuclear weapons options available to Iran and North Korea as both seek to become nuclear powers. [Hat tip: David Donar at Political Graffiti]

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