Bob McCarty Writes

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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EDITOR’S NOTE: On April 27, 2007, I published a post that loosely linked Mike Penner, a Los Angeles Times sportswriter who had announced he would undergo a sex-change operation, and the multi-faceted controversy surrounding global warming.  Today, I republish that post for two reasons:  (1) I learned that Penner died yesterday of an apparent suicide; [...]

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