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Entries from December 2011

Happy New Year Offered in Post #4578

December 31st, 2011 · No Comments

I’m using this 4,578th post to wish you a Happy New Year and all the best as 2011 draws to a close at BobMcCarty.com. Thanks to people like you sharing news of this site with friends and acquaintances, nearly 3 million visitors — two-thirds of them unique — have visited since I began tracking them [...]

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If Obama Was Honest Like the Folks at Twitter…

December 31st, 2011 · No Comments

If Barack Obama was as honest as the folks at Twitter were on the final day of 2011 when their system was intermittently “Over Capacity” or having something go “Technically Wrong,” visitors to the White House website would encounter the image below each and every time they tried to visit. The big difference between the [...]

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Barack Obama, Communist or Socialist?

December 28th, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Dr. Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, a school that ranks with Hillsdale College in Michigan as one of the nation’s finest, but least known, liberal arts colleges.  Kengor is the author of The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of [...]

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Enjoy Some Christmas Videos From the Trailer Park

December 24th, 2011 · No Comments

Over the years, I’ve shared a lot of great videos from my friend, Joel Berry at SweetTeaFilms.com.  Today, I offer two of his funniest Christmas videos starring “Tavin Dillard,” his character who lives in a trailer park with his grandmother, “Meemaw.” In the first video (above), Tavin recounts how he got roped into playing the [...]

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Setting Record Straight on Democrats and Racism

December 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Rev. Wayne Perryman, of Seattle, a recovering Democrat, has pursued lawsuits against the Democratic Party on three occasions, seeking to win an apology for centuries of oppression, murder, mayhem, and bigotry directed against blacks.  And although he and most of his fellow plaintiffs, and those who filed amicus briefs, [...]

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Top News Stories of 2011 Covered Here

December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

A number of stories qualify as “top news” during 2011, and Bob McCarty Writes was on top of most of them. THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ On Jan. 26, I blew it when I published a post speculating about anti-government protests in the Middle East were signs of the Tea Party Movement going global.   Then, during the [...]

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Positive Book Review Pulls No Punches

December 21st, 2011 · No Comments

The first few words of its headline, Army destroys much-decorated Green Beret, could have stood on their own, but they weren’t the end of the decidedly-positive review of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice.  Below is an excerpt of that pulls-no-punches review, published today at [...]

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