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Entries from May 2009

Caught on Video: Waterboarding a Cow!

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Never in the history of world has there existed videotape evidence of a cow being waterboarded.  There is, however, evidence  of a “Mancow” — as in Erich “Mancow” Muller, the nationally-syndicated radio talk show host — being waterboarded in Chicago.  It’s available in the video above. Having twice been a guest on The Mancow Show [...]

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Thoughts on Pravda, Izvestia and President Obama

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Jake Tapper’s Political Punch post, about a “newsgathering” effort (see video above) launched recently by the Obama Administration, reminded of something I learned during my brief tenure as a graduate student studying Russian language at Oklahoma State University almost 25 years ago. Under the tutelage of Dr. John Schillinger almost 25 years ago, I learned [...]

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Blogger Offers Behind-the-Scenes Access

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

For those who’ve longed for behind-the-scenes access to Bob McCarty Writes, I offer two photos. The photo above shows my one-year-old cat, Butters, asleep atop my desk next to my computer as I write this post.  A lot of help, he is.  The photo below shows him dreaming about the way things have changed in [...]

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Video: ‘My Father’s War Stories from World War II’

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

I just posted a new video on YouTube that promotes My Father’s War Stories from World War II, a post I published Tuesday as a way to honor this Memorial Day all of those who paid the ultimate price in service to their country. The stories were written by my father, a man who fought [...]

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Ultimate Entitlement Program: Legal Counterfeiting

May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Only on a rare occasion do I publish a post with the sole purpose of directing you to another site.  Today is one of those occasions. Harold Witkow’s piece, Time to Legalize Counterfeiting, published at American Thinker this morning, prompted me to do just that.  The crux of his effort appears in the final paragraph [...]

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Cap-and-Trade Proposal Carries Adverse Impact

May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued the following statement today regarding the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s approval of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade proposal in a 33-25 vote largely along party lines: “While the bill has laudable environmental and economic goals, its inequitable system of allocations remains intact and if enacted would have a disproportionate [...]

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Blogger Offers ‘Definitive Guide’ to Environmental Lawsuit on Eve of Chevron Shareholders Meeting

May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

If you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably heard little about an environmental lawsuit that has potential to produce the largest settlement in the history of the world.  In the space below, I offer for free information that might best be described as “The Definitive Guide to the Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit (hereinafter referred to as “The [...]

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