Bob McCarty Writes

Facing a July 29 deadline, John and Judy Dollarhite of Nixa, Mo., responded Friday to officials at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service with a “Substitute Stipulation Agreement” that, hopefully, will allow the couple to avoid fines of up to $4 million in fines for selling too many bunnies. The substitute agreement, prepared [...]

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When I saw Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain come under fire over the weekend for comments he made about the construction of mosques in the United States, I couldn’t help but chuckle.  Why?  Because, in my not-too-distant past, I worked with churches nationwide as an audio-video design and installation consultant. From my office at Norman, [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger When Americans understand that the Russian word, “pravda,” translates to “truth” in English, and that the Russian word, “isvestia,” translates to “news,” they will understand and appreciate what Russian friends whispered to me in Moscow in the days before the Soviet Union disintegrated.  They would say, conspiratorially, “There is [...]

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Below are some interesting signs of the times in the form of photographic images shot by one of my sibling’s during a recent trip to London: In case you didn’t know:  My five siblings and I have always been world travelers. Between us, we’ve lived in 11 U.S. states and territories and in six foreign [...]

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Though I spent most of my week working on my upcoming nonfiction book about the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of former Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly Stewart, we still had a great week online.  Below is a recap of all the posts published at BobMcCarty.com — including one that went national — during [...]

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By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger Go ahead, close your eyes. Imagine a world where you get scoffed at and labeled a “polar bear killer” for driving a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon. And then imagine a France-like world where Americans work only 35 hours a week, or a Greece-like world where they [...]

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Today, I decided to share campaign videos from Republican presidential hopefuls about whom you probably haven’t heard very much. The list of lesser-known candidates includes Fred Karger, the first openly-gay presidential candidate. While I couldn’t find a campaign video, per se, I did find Karger’s website is laden with CNN iReport videos such as the [...]

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