Bob McCarty Writes

Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a news release about a former State Department official being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and about his wife being handed an 81-month sentence , most members of the mainstream news media have opted against covering the story.  How [...]

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Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin today released his appeal of the Army’s version of a fitness report which disparages him unjustly. As it was originally drafted, the Officer Evaluation Report praised the lieutenant colonel as being among the top 10 percent of all Army medical department officers and recommended him both for promotion to full [...]

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First, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a new drilling moratorium.  Now, some in Congress want to increase federal revenue by repealing or modifying several long-standing, legitimate tax policies affecting the U.S. oil and natural gas industry.  The world is upside down, the people in the oil and natural gas industry are rightfully upset, and you [...]

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar continues to display ineptitude of the highest order on Day 85 of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Below is the text of an e-mail he sent to all Department of the Interior employees “mole” — as a “Secretary’s Priority Message” Wednesday afternoon.  More than anything else, it [...]

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Appearing last night on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, St. Louis radio talk show host and rising conservative voice Dana Loesch discussed issues related to the NAACP’s willingness to put politics over civil rights and the group’s national convention vote calling upon members of the Tea Party Movement to condemn the racist elements within [...]

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Hector Maldonado hasn’t gained much traction in his bid to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate race in Missouri.  Recently, however, he did earned national headlines when he told a campaign crowd in Branson that he’s thinking about filing a lawsuit against Robin “Coakley” Carnahan, the lone Democrat in a contest littered with Republicans [...]

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Oil and natural gas industry officials called for an early return to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico during testimony delivered in New Orleans today at the first meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Andy Radford, senior policy advisor for the American Petroleum Institute, told [...]

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