Bob McCarty Writes

Instead of boring Americans with the anti-Big Oil content of a joint news release issued today by the Departments of Energy and the Interior, I decided to have some fun with the people who like to say, “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” It’s The Ken Salazar Photo Caption Contest! Use the [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made a lot of good points during a Fox Business interview with Stuart Varney this morning. Most importantly, Senator Inhofe explained that the Kerry-Lieberman Global Warming Bill is basically another form of cap-and-trade legislation and that it’s dead before it hits the U.S. Senate. On offshore drilling in the wake of [...]

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“Once Nancy Pelosi was safely confined to liberal San Francisco, but Harry Reid and Barack Obama had other plans.” So begins the latest television ad from RightChange launched today.  The 30-second spot, “Attack of the 50-Foot Pelosi”, aims its message directly at voters in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District where the late Democrat John Murtha served [...]

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Only two weeks after the Supreme Court decided the Mojave Cross could remain on display near the Mojave National Preserve in California, vandals struck the site and removed the cross that has stood since 1934 as a memorial to veterans of World War I. I just learned of the vandalism via Fox News Channel. Developing… [...]

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Several people in Southeast Missouri have told me how much the late U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson was loved by his constituents. So I was surprised to learn that, despite a 35-year connection with the people of 8th Congressional District, his successor — and second wife — Jo Ann Emerson appears to lack that kind of [...]

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Trivia Question: In what northern Oklahoma community were many scenes in the 1996 movie, “Twister“, shot?  Answer: Wakita. And for good reason!  Last night, storm chasers shot video of a three-vortex tornado that developed near Wakita, a town less than an hour north of this blogger’s boyhood home of Enid.  Storms across the Sooner State [...]

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Make no mistake about it: U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) will win in November.  Her well-oiled fund-raising machine and unmatched name recognition combine to make the job of unseating her virtually impossible. What can one learn by studying the 8th Congressional District race in Southeast Missouri?  He can learn that a Republican In Name [...]

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