Bob McCarty Writes

Imagine what life in 1913 would have been like if the trial lawyer army that exists today was around back then.  For starters, newspaper advertisements like the one Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works ran (above) would have led to thousands — or, perhaps, millions — of product liability lawsuits.  That, however, was another day [...]

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First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines?  They focus on something far less important than the fact that the e-mails exchanged between researchers at the UK’s East Anglia [...]

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Asked whether he thinks the tables could be turned on climate change alarmists after e-mail evidence of manipulation of climate change data by UK researchers surfaced last week, Mike Carey isn’t ready to declare victory.  The president of the American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy does, however, see value in those e-mails coming into public [...]

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Having worked with journalists at NHK while living in Japan 20 years ago, I was excited to see a crew from the Japanese television network at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon.  My first thought:  “The local tea party movement had finally earned a spot on the world stage.”  But I was wrong. [...]

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The folks at Gateway Patriot came up with a twist of the now-popular Apple commercials that push the slogan, “There’s an app for that.”  The twist, in this case, makes fun of President Barack Obama’s penchant with having un-Constitutional czar’s in charge of every possible arena in which he wants to inject government control.  In [...]

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While covering the St. Louis Tea Party at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon, I ran into a fellow blogger.  Not your ordinary blogger, this guy is 12 years old and, perhaps, the youngest conservative blogger in Missouri.  His name:  David Bader. Asked to explain why he’s so interested in how his government [...]

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Among those who gathered in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon to rally against government-run health care, high taxes and rampant socialism was Dave McArthur, owner of McArthur’s Bakery, a family business that’s operated in the Gateway City since 1956. After sharing his heartfelt beliefs with the crowd estimated at 2,500 or more, many of whom [...]

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