Bob McCarty Writes

I suspect nearly every elected Democrat — and a good number of Republicans — in Washington, D.C., owns a device — a secret weapon of sorts — like the one shown in the photograph above.  Revealed to readers of this blog for the first time, the device shown above is used by misguided politicians as [...]

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According to news reports like this one, as many as 60,000 people have canceled their AARP memberships since a Dallas-area town hall meeting on health care reform Aug. 6 went terribly wrong. If the video below, from a town hall forum held yesterday in Brevard County, Fla., is any indication, things aren’t getting much better [...]

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Sanyo, the Japanese electronics giant, confirmed today that its electrolyzed water technology is at least 99 percent effective in suppressing infectivity for a clinical strain of the new H1N1 influenza virus (a.k.a., “Swine Flu”).  That’s right.  Electrolyzed water.  How long it will be until someone bottles that? Wanna know more?  Read more about it here.

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Uncle Jay begins this week’s installment of Uncle Jay Explains the News by expressing thankfulness that “none of us were terminated by a ‘Death Panel’ during the past week.” The word of the week, “decorum”, is looked at as it relates to health care town meetings, Dick Cheney’s soon-to-be-released book and Hillary Clinton’s long-standing grudge [...]

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One can only hope that life will imitate art — specifically, the Political Graffiti editorial cartoon above. If public protests over President Barack Obama’s so-called “health care reform” plan continue and more sections of the ghastly legislation are removed in the same manner as the “death panel” was removed last week, perhaps the rest of [...]

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In 1976, the U.S. government implored all Americans to be vaccinated as “protection” against Swine Flu — and 46 million Americans took the shot, according to a report by Mike Wallace of CBS’s “60 Minutes“.  Afterward, some 4,000 of those who took the shot filed claims for damages — up to and including paralysis and [...]

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Every once in a while, I have to ignore the dark side of life (i.e., politics) and focus instead on the arts.  That in mind, below are four drawings completed by my 13-year-old son using the online tools available at OneMotion.com.  Enjoy! At right, “Butters on TV” depicts a frequent occurrence in our family room [...]

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