Bob McCarty Writes

I came away from a media conference call Thursday afternoon with a pretty good idea about who is to blame for the cleanup of oil in the Gulf of Mexico taking so long:  BUMBLING BUREAUCRATS. The call, arranged by the Deepwater Horizon Response Team, took place at 3:30 p.m. Central Thursday and began with Dr. [...]

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Earlier this week, President Barack Obama was roundly criticized — especially by those on the right, including yours truly — for relying upon a teleprompter while speaking at an elementary school.  That’s why no one was surprised to see he didn’t use a teleprompter while addressing members of the House Republican Caucus in Baltimore late [...]

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One week ago today, as shown in the video above, President Barack Obama used teleprompters as he addressed sixth-grade students at Graham Road Elementary in Falls Church, Va.  But who knew?  A Google News search today showed the mainstream news media certainly didn’t mention it in any of their reports — unless, that is, you [...]

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Several times each day, I find in my inbox one of those “must-forward” e-mails from some well-intentioned person upset with someone or something.  Usually, I delete them quickly.  Today, however, I felt compelled to share excerpts (below) from one such message that uses rhetorical questions to slam the media bias apparent when one compares coverage [...]

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Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right? 1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government. 2.  Obama said [...]

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