Bob McCarty Writes

After suffering the loss of his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, in Iraq, Albert Snyder of York, Pa., tried to bury his son in peace.  That’s when Fred Phelps and a group from Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest and disrupt the funeral.  The elder Snyder sued them for their actions and, [...]

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In recent days, liberal Democrats have spent a lot of time leveling allegations of violence against tea partiers in the nation’s capitol and elsewhere.  Take a look at how supporters of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) treated Andrew Breitbart and other Tea Party Express visitors this weekend in the majority leader’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev.  [...]

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Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t recall ever seeing a president exiting Air Force One through one of the doors in the belly of the aircraft.  In the official White House photo above by Pete Souza, President Barack Obama is shown exiting the aircraft after arriving yesterday at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.  Unusual [...]

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If you relied upon CNN for your news about Saturday’s Tea Party Express III rally in Searchlight, Nev., you heard only that there were “Hundreds of People, At Least Dozens” in attendance.  In reality, as shown in the photo above, the turnout ranged from 9,000 to 30,000 at the event staged in the hometown of [...]

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A writer for BusinessWeek once suggested Foster Friess “may be the longest-surviving successful growth-stock picker, having navigated markets for 36 years, in his own firm since 1974.”  I consider the Wyoming billionaire a staunch advocate for private-sector solutions and a great source for sound advice that comes from a Christian world view. [Note: I used [...]

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Early this afternoon, I asked individuals at the weekly anti-socialism rally in O’Fallon, Mo., to share their greatest fears now that President Barack Obama has signed government-run health care (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) into law. In response, they shared concerns about rationing of health care and the possibility of receiving no health care at all. They shared [...]

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Two long-time friends of mine sent the photo above of a sign outside an El Arroyo Restaurant location in Austin. It appears the owner of the Mexican restaurant has, using tongue-in-cheek language, put President Barack Obama’s wealth redistribution thinking on the menu.  The sign reads, “TRY OUR OBAMA ESPECIAL.  ORDER ANYTHING AND THE NEXT TABLE [...]

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