Bob McCarty Writes

While the KXAN television news video below paints a graphic portrait of the damage wrought by wildfires in the Texas Hill Country east of Austin during the past two weeks, it makes no mention of three blameworthy factors that might have played pivotal roles in reducing the size and scope of this red-hot disaster. The [...]

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On the morning of Aug. 24, federal agents raided Gibson Guitar Corporation factories in Nashville and Memphis on the premise that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal.  But that’s not all!  Even more disturbing facts have surfaced about the raid since then, leading many to conclude [...]

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I hope you enjoy reading between the lines.  I tweeted most of the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate tonight on MSNBC and share those tweets from the @BloggingMachine in order below, newest to oldest: It’s over! Conspiracy theory of the night: If you flip Herman Cain’s 999 plan, it becomes a 666 plan. Ooohhhh!!!! Herman Cain [...]

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Yesterday, an online friend of mine, Tom Birkenmeier, published a post under the very long headline, An Idea Whose Time Is Long Overdue! How Modern Medical Science Can Help Us Select Better Senators, Congressional Representatives, Federal Judges And Supreme Court Justices.  Here’s a snippet: I hear a lot of people, me included, saying things like: [...]

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Jake Tapper seems to have had enough with Jay Carney.  Yesterday, the ABC News White House correspondent let the president’s spokesman know it during a discussion about the apparent double-standard that exists when it comes to the use of harsh language about political opponents. Mentioned during the Tapper-Carney “debate” above was a February 2008 campaign [...]

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The U.S. Postal Service is drowning in debt and on the verge of going under.  With the quasi-governmental agency on the verge of reporting losses of $10 billion for the fiscal year that will end Sept. 30, I share a useful political lesson in the form of an interview I conducted almost two years ago [...]

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Can’t remember what Barack Obama said when he spoke in Tuscon, Ariz., at the Jan. 12 campaign rally disguised as a memorial service to honor the people killed in Tucson four days earlier?  You’re not alone.  After hearing AFL-CIO Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa call for war on the Tea Party Monday, the president seemed as [...]

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