Each February and March for the past six years, Caitlin Mills, 16, and Abigail Mills, 14, have put a card table in front of their home in Hazelwood, Mo., and sold Girl Scout cookies to drivers passing by. This year, however, the city of Hazelwood notified their mother, Carolyn Mills, that the girls’ cookie stand [...]
Entries from April 2011
St. Louis-Area Girls Told to Close Cookie Stand (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · 8 Comments
Tags: · abigail mills, andrew breitbart, big government, Bob McCarty, caitlin mills, carolyn mills, Constitution, cookie stand, Customer Service, dana loesch, dave roland, entrepreneurship, freedom center, girl scout cookies, girl scouts, hazelwoord, lemonade, mills, Missouri, money management, police power, property rights, public health, public safety, St. Louis-Area Girls Told to Close Cookie Stand, the dana show
Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · No Comments
With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]
Tags: · airlines, american indian, atf, Bob McCarty, bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms, bureau of indian affairs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, congressional research service, department of the interior, federal contractors, Health, last-minute budget deal, law enforcement, national institutes of health, national park service, nih, passports, public safety, Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown, superfund, tourist, Veterans, visas
Oklahoma City Bombing Videotapes Subject of Federal Court Hearing in Salt Lake City May 11
April 7th, 2011 · 12 Comments
More than 18 months after publishing a piece about the whereabouts of the unedited versions of the Oklahoma City Bombing surveillance tapes, I learned Wednesday that a federal court hearing concerning a Freedom of Information Act request for those videotapes is set to take place May 11 in Salt Lake City. The hearing will take [...]
Tags: · alfred p. murrah federal building, andrew breitbart, big government, Bob McCarty, bradford cooley, charles hanger, don browning, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal court, foia, Freedom of Information Act, jayna davis, jesse trentadue, judge clark waddoups, murrah building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City Bombing Videotapes Subject of Federal Court Hearing in Salt Lake City May 11, oklahoma highway patrol, ricardo ojeda, ryder rental truck, Salt Lake City, surveillance, surveillance tapes, timothy mcveigh, trentadue, utah
Newly-Discovered FBI Memo Supports Previous Claims of Iraqi Involvement in OKC Bombing
April 6th, 2011 · No Comments
A newly-discovered FBI memo appears to support claims of Iraqi involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing first made in 2004 by Jayna Davis, award-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author of “The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing.” The once-classified memo, according to an article published Tuesday by The Center for Public [...]
Tags: · afghani freedom fighters, Bob McCarty, center for public integrity, david p schippers, david schippers, FBI, hussain al-hussaini, Iraq, iraqi intelligence service, iraqi special services, jayna davis, jesse trentadue, john doe 2, middle east connection to the oklahoma city bombing, Newly-Discovered FBI Memo Supports Previous Claims of Iraqi Involvement in OKC Bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Bombing, Saudi Arabia, saudi arabian intelligence service, surveillance tapes, the new york times best seller, the third terrorist
‘Path to Prosperity’ Paved with Broken Promises
April 5th, 2011 · 1 Comment
With U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) leading the charge with a 3-minute video released Monday, House Republicans are pushing a “Path to Prosperity” Plan that includes cutting $6.2 trillion in federal spending over ten years. As much as I would like to embrace their plan, I can’t shake from my mind the saying, “The road [...]
Tags: · 'Path to Prosperity' Paved with Broken Promises, Bob McCarty, broken promise, house republicans, path to prosperity, paul ryan, pray, pray for our country, Republican, The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Holder Blames Congress Before Announcing Plan to Hold Military Tribunals for 9/11 Terror Suspects
April 4th, 2011 · No Comments
Only after claiming Congressional interference played a pivotal role in his decision, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today he will use military tribunals to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and several other alleged 9/11 terrorists. AG Holder’s decision comes barely two years after President Barack Obama’s Jan. 22, 2009, announcement that he would close the Guantanamo [...]
Tags: · 9/11, ag eric holder, attorney general eric holder, Bob McCarty, Congress, eric holder, free at last, GITMO, gitmo detainee reentry academy, Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, holder, Holder Blames Congress Before Announcing Plan to Hold Military Tribunals for 9/11 Terror Suspects, justice department, khalid sheik mohammed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, ksm, military tribunals, president barack obama, rasmussen reports, Sept. 11, September 11, Terror, Terror Suspects
Barack Obama Launches 2012 Campaign
April 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments
President Barack Obama made it official Sunday, using the YouTube video below to announce he will see a second term as the worst president in U.S. history. The video above — which is ripe for parody and sarcasm — appears just below data entry fields within which each visitor to BarackObama.com is asked to supply [...]
Tags: · 2012, are you in, are you in foreclosure, are you in more debt, are you in unemployment, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Launches 2012 Campaign, Bob McCarty, debt, foreclosure, President, Presidential Campaign, unemployment, worst president, worst president in us history, YouTube
