Bob McCarty Writes

Amidst a complete overhaul driven by bankruptcy, General Motors is reinventing itself.  The exclusive video above offers a glimpse into the future of GM, its leadership and its workers.  You won’t see this on television.

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Seven days ago in the post, Forget Guns and Ammo, It’s Time to Hoard Ink Pens, I shared news about how the Consumer Product Safety Commission was expected to issue a ruling regarding whether or not 95 percent of all ink pens sold for use in schools or by children under the age of 12 [...]

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American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard issued back-to-back statements today related to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. About the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate on the measure, Gerard said the following: “The study confirms the bill discriminates against ordinary Americans who depend on cars, trucks, trains and airplanes and will be [...]

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Lightning strikes are unpredictable.  Labor union strikes…not so much.  Both, however, can be damaging. When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a normal part of life, especially in the spring.  Labor strikes, on the other hand, happened only on very rare occasions.  Why?  Because the [...]

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In his weekly installment of “Uncle Jay Explains the News,” Uncle Jay discusses, the economy, the switch to digital television, out-of-control spending and more.

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Similarities exist between the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the July 17, 1996, disaster involving TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island.  In each case, government officials discredited and/or ignored the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses and talented investigative reporters reached near-identical conclusions (i.e., [...]

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Frustrated officials in the Singaporean government, hoping to raise young adults’ interest in making babies instead of just money, have lost their collective mind and ordered pole dancing to be taught in its elite schools, according to a recent post at the Former American Professor in China blog.  Read the entire story here. UPDATE: A [...]

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