Bob McCarty Writes

Even Yellowstone National Park won’t be able to meet clean air standards in new EPA proposals. But that’s not all, according to folks in the energy industry.  The video below, from the Energy Tomorrow Blog, offers details worth sharing about clean air, ethanol in gasoline and more. CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., and [...]

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I’m not a health food nut, a vegan, a vegetarian or anything unusual, but I am an advocate of free enterprise.  From Howell County, Mo., to Ventura County, Calif., free enterprise is being threatened by agents of the “Nanny State” who seem to be on the war path, zealously striving to shut down elements of [...]

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I tend to be against funding of special projects that reek of favoritism and payback.  On the other hand, I tend to agree with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) when it comes to so-called “earmarks reform.” The senior senator from Oklahoma describes the push to eliminate earmarks as a phony issue. Fox News is reporting on [...]

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If you’re inclined to compare drilling for natural gas to using a straw to sip soda pop from a can, you’re sorely misguided.  In reality, extracting natural gas from Piceance Basin wells is more comparable to standing inside a freezer and trying to get frozen soda pop from a can that has no pop-top opening.  [...]

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The White House granted waivers allowing 111 organizations to escape the unfair, unConstitutional, job-killing aspects of President Barack Obama’s health care reform (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”).  The Fox News Channel video below explains. To read other BMW posts mentioning ObamaCare, click here.

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The U.S. Postal Service’s just-released 2009 Annual Report contains some hard-to-swallow numbers about the agency’s efficiency, effectiveness and long-term viability.  Most disturbing among them is the number reflecting net losses during fiscal year 2010:  $8.5 billion. The USPS only lost $3.8 billion the previous year despite, according to a Nov. 16, 2009, news release, implementing [...]

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On Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of Hiawatha, Iowa, will be awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama during ceremonies at the White House.  In the video below, Sergeant Giunta describes not only the mission which resulted in him being awarded the nation’s highest honor but he feels [...]

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