Bob McCarty Writes

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin announced this morning that he will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Missouri that’s coming up for election in 2012. During an 11 o’clock announcement event at the Drury Inn in Creve Coeur, Mo., the six-term Republican told a crowd of nearly 100 supporters, elected officials and [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Watching the Sunday morning news programs… NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” at 8, CBS’s “Face the Nation” at 9:30, “Fox News Sunday” at 10, and PBS’s “Washington Week” at 11… it is possible to see a wide variety of very successful and highly-paid [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad.  Seven months later, the leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division was convicted of [...]

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I’ve decided to use Saturday as a day to offer recaps of the posts published on this blog between Sunday and Friday each week.  Below is the laundry list of posts for the week of May 8: SUNDAY, May 8 Happy Mother’s Day! – In honor of Mother’s Day 2011, I share the photo above [...]

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Records show FBI practice of hiding evidence in secret databases. The words above appeared as the headline of Dennis Romboy’s article published Friday evening in the Deseret News, Utah’s largest daily newspaper.  When you read the article below the headline, however, you discover that the federal court case from which that ominous headline emerged is [...]

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Most members of the mainstream news media consider the investigation into the Oklahoma City Bombing closed and have, for the most part, stopped writing about it.  And then there are people like me and Wes Vernon, a Washington, D.C.-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist who writes for Renew America.  I think it’s safe to say, [...]

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Thanks to Adam Sharp, the University of Missouri-St. Louis — better known as “UMSL” in the big city on the West bank of the Mississippi River — might need to change it’s name to “University of Missouri for Socialism and Liberalism.” The school has been in the news a lot lately after Don Giljum, a [...]

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