Bob McCarty Writes

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf published a post on his blog yesterday under the headline, Federal Debt and the Risk of a Financial Crisis.  It began with the following two paragraphs and featured the catchy graphic shown below right: In fiscal crises in a number of countries around the world, investors have lost confidence [...]

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During a 45-minute conference call with journalists this morning, Jack Gerard shared some startling predictions about the future health of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry if the Obama Administration gets its way in adding more regulation and increasing taxes on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  The biggest one of all is [...]

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Recently, Republican Jo Ann Emerson received received a boost in her bid for re-election in Missouri’s 8th Congressional District.  That boost came in the form of a highly-coveted endorsement of Missouri Right to Life, and it came despite the fact the seven-term incumbent had cast votes against life on at least two occasions during the [...]

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Curious to learn the basis for Missouri Right to Life‘s highly-coveted endorsement of State Rep. Cynthia Davis over incumbent State Sen. Scott Rupp in the heated Republican primary race for Missouri’s 2nd Senatorial District seat, I caught up with Pam Fichter, president of the pro-life group, Saturday in O’Fallon. In the video below, Fichter explains [...]

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When I interviewed Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) eight months ago, the Missouri Health Care Freedom Act was just an idea about to be introduced in the Missouri Senate.  Today, the measure (a.k.a., “Proposition C”) is only days away — Aug. 3 — from going before voters in a first-in-the-nation citizens’ referendum on ObamaCare.  [...]

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With the primary election for the Missouri U.S. Senate race barely a week away, I received news today that members of three influential Tea Party groups have NOT endorsed Roy Blunt! The groups members hail from Blunt’s “backyard” cities of Branson and Springfield as well as from St. Charles County. The first message, in the [...]

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Thanks in part to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the Obama Administration’s unrelenting attacks, the nation’s oil and gas has been the focus of a lot of media attention in recent months.  On Thursday, the American Petroleum Institute hosted a blogger conference call and made several industry experts available to address a variety of topics [...]

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