Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Just imagine for a moment that you are Barack Obama… I know it’s distasteful, but do it anyway… and assume that your number one goal, politically, is to make it possible for your party to win U.S. elections in perpetuity, with little or no chance of a strong challenge [...]

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When searching for pieces of union-friendly legislation not serving the best interests of all Americans, it seems one needs only look for bills upon which the name of U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, appears as a sponsor. In a June 3 article about the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (H.R. 413), writer Warner Todd Houston [...]

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Facebook is a great tool for sharing information and misinformation alike.  Want proof?  Ask U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri’s 8th Congressional District. In an entry on her Facebook page Monday, the lobbyist-turned congressman’s wife-turned congresswoman introduces a Bloomberg article about a $160 billion Fannie-Freddie Fix by writing, “This is the mother of all [...]

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The National Post is reporting that a prominent climate scientist and insider at the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on man-made global warming. The Canadian publication cites Mike Hulme as stating in a recent academic paper that the actual [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, I share the latest message from Scott and Vicki Behenna about their son, Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, a man who’s serving a 15-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth following his wrongful conviction, sentencing and imprisonment for killing a known Al-Qaeda operative in self-defense: To the thousands of Michael Behenna supporters: The [...]

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* * * There’s been a lot of criticism circulating throughout the web — and even throughout the conservative blogosphere (here and here) — about the apparent failure by Obama Administration officials to take advantage of warehouses in Maine that are reportedly full of boom manufactured by Packgen.  Though I’m the last person anyone would [...]

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In a statement this afternoon, officials at the American Petroleum Institute expressed disappointment with the Senate’s defeat of the Murkowski resolution: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should not move forward with regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.  The Clean Air Act was never intended, nor should it be used, to address climate change. It was designed [...]

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