Bob McCarty Writes

Since the dawn of time, soldiers have returned home from foreign battlefields carrying souvenirs to serve as reminders of where they fought and many of their fellow soldiers died.  Most recently, some American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have returned home from deployments to the Middle East and Southwest Asia carrying Afghan “battle carpets.” Click [...]

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President Barack Obama has put America into the hands of “environmental radicals.” It is only a matter of time before “his vast popularity runs aground on his energy policies,” according to Jon Basil Utley, writing in a Reason magazine column. “In the name of saving the planet from global warming, [Obama] has delayed new oil [...]

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Is there really much difference between what the Taliban is doing in Pakistan and what President Barack Obama and leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress are doing in the United States?  Perhaps not. During an almost-two-year campaign to bring Pakistan’s Swat Valley under Islamic law, Taliban militants have beheaded local officials, burned schools and banned education [...]

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Less than 48 hours after I predicted that a White House meeting of “health care reform stakeholders” would produce a plan “by 5 o’clock,” my prediction came true.  Unfortunately, however, it appears to have taken Press Secretary Robert Gibbs a while to craft the message for dissemination to the public. President Barack Obama announced this [...]

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Total U.S. petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) fell 3.6 percent in April from a year ago, reflecting continuing weakness in the economy, according to the American Petroleum Institute’s Monthly Statistical Report released today.  While gasoline deliveries increased slightly in April against a year ago, all other product deliveries fell, led by a sharp drop [...]

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Winners of the 2009 CLIO Awards, one of the world’s most prestigious international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, were announced today.  They recognize print, direct mail, radio, poster and billboard mediums, as well as the new strategic communications/public relations medium.  Below are three of the winning entries I [...]

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It won’t surprise if, sooner than later, the “wheels” start to come off the bus under which President Barack Obama has been so quick to toss those who cross him or make mistakes than reflect negatively upon him.  For now, however, I must remain content with one-time supporters of the president “flying the coup,” disgusted [...]

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