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Entries from June 2011

Weekly Recap: The Week of May 29, 2011

June 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Below is a recap of all the posts published at BobMcCarty.com during the week of May 29, 2011: MONDAY, May 30 Barack Obama for President – of Kenya! — Guest blogger Paul R. Hollrah suggests that Barack Obama may have his long-term future already planned, saying he will serve as president of Kenya. TUESDAY, May [...]

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Documents Reveal Cozy Relationship Between Obama Administration and General Motors

June 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

Documents released last week by the U.S. Treasury Department indicate that General Motors (a.k.a., “Government Motors”) and the Obama administration coordinated their public relations strategy regarding GM’s much-criticized 2010 ad campaign, in which the car maker misleadingly claimed to have repaid all its government loans, according to the folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This [...]

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Animal Trainer Caught in USDA ‘Legal Circus’ (Update)

June 2nd, 2011 · 11 Comments

“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” The first five words of that famous line from the movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” say a lot about what Doug Terranova does for a living.  The last two words, however, come closer to describing how Terranova reacted upon learning someone from the USDA Animal and Plant Health [...]

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Listen to Commonsense Coalition Radio Friday (Update)

June 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

Be sure to LISTEN LIVE Friday at 10 a.m. Central as I make a guest appearance on Commonsense Coalition Talk Radio, a program hosted by Beth Schoeneberg that airs ONLINE and on 43 stations in 19 states. I’ll be talking with Schoeneberg about “Chasing Rabbits,” a series of nearly a dozen posts in which I [...]

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Magician Provides Update on USDA ‘Rabbit Police’

June 2nd, 2011 · 4 Comments

I received an update Wednesday night from Marty Hawne, one of the magicians whose story about being busted by a USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service agent at a public library was highlighted May 25 in USDA ‘Rabbit Police’ Stalking Magicians, a post by South Carolina magician and guest blogger Tim Sonefelt. Though I could [...]

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Rabbit Stories Discussed on Rush Limbaugh Show!

June 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments

This blog has been on one heck of a ride during the past two weeks, thanks in large part to public interest in “Chasing Rabbits,” a series of nearly a dozen posts in which I highlighted the hare-raising plight of John and Judy Dollarhite, a Nixa, Mo., couple handed a $90,643 fine by the USDA [...]

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Director Admits He Withheld Key Evidence From Final Cut of Oscar-Nominated Documentary (Update)

June 1st, 2011 · 6 Comments

Josh Fox, the director of Gasland, an Oscar-nominated documentary, has admitted he withheld evidence that showed gas can occur in water naturally and is not a result of fracking, the natural gas drilling technique that enables recovery of natural gas from previously-untappable rock formations.  The video below captures Fox’s disclosure: In the documentary, Fox claims [...]

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