Bob McCarty Writes

In an article published late this afternoon, the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle is reporting that a two-week strike by civilian contractor employees at Vance Air Force Base is over and that the more than 700 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 898 will report back to work Tuesday. [...]

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Only a year after she was banned from a minor league ballpark, “One-Sheet” Sheryl Crow will be the official musical entertainer at the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Charity Concert in downtown St. Louis July 11, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today. Rumor has it that, as part of her contract, [...]

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Fifty-five years ago, an animated presentation, entitled “It’s Everybody’s Business,” was produced by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. That presentation appears in two parts below, offering everything President Barack Obama needs to know about capitalism before he destroys it and the American way of life. Please pass along this post to everyone who [...]

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Set for release this fall, “2012″ stands to become yet another in a long line of forgettable, CGI-intensive doomsday movies that might be worth renting at the video store in a couple of months, but is hardly worth the $50 price tag of a popcorn-and-drinks-included family outing at the local cinema.  For purposes of this [...]

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Almost half a century ago, then-private citizen Ronald Reagan spoke out against government-run health care (a.k.a., “socialized medicine”) as proposed by Democrats of the day.  Part of the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign, the voice of the man who went on to become the nation’s 40th president appeared on LPs sent out by the American [...]

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Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation is the same man who represented Stanford Financial Group and its now-indicted founder R. Allen Stanford between 2002 [...]

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In a post published June 18, 2007, I shared news of an ABC News story published under the headline, Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe. ABC News correspondent Brian Ross reported that large teams of newly-trained suicide bombers were being sent to the United States and Europe. According to evidence contained in a [...]

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