Bob McCarty Writes

Pop star Sheryl Crow’s name has graced the pages of this blog 16 times since first making headlines by calling upon Americans to limit their toilet paper usage to “one square per visit”.  Earlier this month, the native of Kennett, Mo., native provided right-wingers an opportunity to share more of her “poop” when she answered [...]

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I just finished a 10-minute interview with Jeff Horwich, a reporter with American Public Media’s “Marketplace“, a program carried on more than 500 public radio stations across the country. Asked questions about the recently-released consumer confidence numbers and the relationship between those numbers being down and the news media’s reporting on the economy, I focused [...]

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President Barack Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, lied about the wording of a law that goes to the very heart of our ability to use the courts to combat Islamic terrorism. As Obama’s solicitor general, Kagan urged the Court to dismiss the suit that our 9/11 families have been pressing against the Saudi [...]

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Seven candidates for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Christopher “Kit” Bond were among the dozens of politicians who attended the “Freedom Fights” candidates forum sponsored by I Heard the People Say in St. Charles, Mo., June 27, 2010. One candidate, career politician Roy Blunt, failed to make an appearance at the event, perhaps [...]

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By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger How likely is it U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is lying about President Barack Obama’s statement that he did not want to seal the border because then Republicans would not be motivated to support immigration reform? Below is a short segment of Senator Kyl’s remarks at a recent town hall [...]

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The American Petroleum Institute today issued the following statement regarding the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman to lift President Barack Obama’s moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling: “We welcome Judge Feldman’s decision to lift the moratorium on deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico. “The administration acted appropriately in its immediate steps to [...]

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U.S. gasoline deliveries for May dipped 0.4 percent from last year to average 9.05 million barrels per day, the lowest May level since 2003, according to the American Petroleum Institute’s Monthly Statistical Report. “This downward movement compared with year-on-year increases for both March 2010 and April 2010 indicates that gasoline demand is more sensitive to [...]

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