Bob McCarty Writes

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger The idea of a government-run HMO proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrat leaders should scare us all.  Further cause for concern stems from $1 billion of taxpayer dollars shoehorned into the stimulus to fund research into the comparative effectiveness of medicine.  Referred to as “Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER),” Sally [...]

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In an article at BeliefNet.com yesterday, Steven Waldman wrote about Sonia Sotomayor’s entry in the 1976 Princeton University yearbook. Not surprisingly, President Barack Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter had — and, perhaps, still has — a “thing” for communist politicians. Before waxing poetic about her college experience, Sotomayor used her [...]

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I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on television, but it strikes me that leaders of the Amazon Defense Coalition may have violated terms of the Logan Act as they cozied up to leaders of the Ecuadoran government in zealous pursuit of a $27 billion judgment against Chevron Corporation. Not familiar with the [...]

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President Barack Obama will travel to Egypt next week. While there, he is expected to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, thus fulfilling a promise made during his presidential campaign. As he fulfills that promise, his choice of a venue and the content of his message could prove controversial. While a specific location [...]

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Did some of the 1,100 Chrysler dealers who’ve been told they have to close their dealerships receive “pink slips” as a result of their political affiliations or contributions made — or not made — to certain political campaigns?  That’s the question that a number of bloggers are researching this week. Two days ago, Doug Ross [...]

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“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less well-developed and then try to export those judgments to the United States,” said Charles A. James, executive vice [...]

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“This case is the ultimate embodiment of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” said Charles A. James, executive vice president and chief legal counsel at Chevron Corporation, speaking about the 16-year-old, $27 billion lawsuit filed by the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron in Ecuador. James shared the opinions above during a conference call with bloggers one [...]

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