Bob McCarty Writes

Today, the Republican Study Group released “Those Voices Don’t Speak for the Rest of Us,” a fantastic video advertisement below: Ace of Spades reports that he suggested Republicans produce a sequel to the ad that features the Ronald Reagan-style question, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”  Perhaps, we should modify [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Please file this under, “I couldn’t resist making pop singer Sheryl Crow the subject of my 4,000 career post!” Seven weeks ago, I reported on Crow taking a sWipe at the Tea Party Movement.  It marked the 17th occasion on which Crow’s name had been mentioned in a post on this blog.  The [...]

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By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger For years folks on the right side of the political spectrum have complained about what they perceive as a clear liberal bias in the mainstream media (MSM). The MSM has sloughed this all off as the ranting of Limbaugh “Ditto Heads”, brainwashed Fox News viewers and Tea Party racists. Recently, [...]

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If his most-recent memo to “All DOI Employees” is any indication, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar isn’t wasting any time when it comes to tackling the tough issues of the day. In recent months, Salazar sent messages to staff touting bureaucratic growth, promoting deviant sexual behavior and  bashing “Big Oil,” just to name a [...]

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Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released a report today titled, “Failure of Leadership: President Obama and the Flawed Federal Response to the BP Disaster.” The report concludes that “President Obama and Administration officials failed in several instances to remove regulatory and bureaucratic impediments and [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: During the past 15 months, I’ve written some three-dozen posts about a lawsuit being battled by Chevron Corp. in Ecuador.  Because I’m a little under the weather, I’m leaving the “heavy lifting” about the latest news to arise about the case to my friend Carter Wood at the National Association of Manufacturers.  With [...]

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Senate leaders took the right step to shelve a flawed spill bill, and we look forward to working with lawmakers to improve the bill so that American taxpayers, domestic jobs, the economy and our economic security are protected, according to a statement by American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard: “The decision today by [...]

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