Bob McCarty Writes

Concrete laborers working at the World Trade Center site in New York City agreed to a new pact after walking off the job for three days, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report, but 22,000 carpenters union members voted to authorize a strike.  Makes one wonder whether or not the carpenters — or other [...]

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Sure, it’s a preseason college football coaches poll, but — HEY! — it has the Oklahoma Sooners in the #1 spot and the Oklahoma State Cowboys at #8, so I simply had to share it in this space. BOOMER SOONER or GO POKES? Because I grew up a Sooners fan before graduating from Oklahoma State [...]

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On Oct. 6, 2007, I wrote and published my first post about the controversial memorial to be constructed at the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into the Western Pennsylvania countryside Sept. 11, 2001. On Feb. 26, 2009, I shared news of Beverly Burnett’s heartfelt letter in which she called for a full, transparent [...]

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After catching a glance at a Washington Times article about President Barack Obama taking his so-called “debt team” out for 1,700-calorie burgers today at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a cartoon by David Donar at Political Graffiti that appeared on this site more than two years ago [...]

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One week ago today, I was sitting in the terminal at Love Field in Dallas, waiting to catch a flight back to St. Louis, when I noticed something unusual on the television in the waiting area and took a photo.  Perhaps because I was in the middle of writing a post about my mom’s battle [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE:  Six days ago in my post, Appeals Court Upholds Army Officer’s Conviction, Ignores Evidence in Death of Al-Qaeda Operative, I shared news about Michael C. Behenna, the Army Ranger officer convicted of unpremeditated murder in the death of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad.  [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Historians tell us that, on July 1, 1776, John Adams wrote a letter to his wife, Abigail.  As a member of the Committee of Five selected to draft the Declaration of Independence, he was intimately aware of the power and significance of the document and was anticipating that he [...]

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