Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Wall Street meltdowns?  Banking industry bailouts?  Hedge fund hanky-panky?  Multi-million-dollar Wall Street bonuses?  Collapse of the dollar?  National debt default?  Economic collapse?  Who can possibly make sense of it all?  How did it happen, and who’s to blame?  Did George W. Bush create the mess and leave it for [...]

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On Fox & Friends this morning, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain announced the release of a movie about his 9-9-9 tax plan.  Take a look. Of particular interest to me is a statement about exemptions for the poor which comes into play near the 4:30 mark of the six-minute video which, I think, has the [...]

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Recently, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder dropped out of the race for the Missouri governorship before ever formally announcing his Republican candidacy.  In the same breath as he said he would run for another term as the Show-Me State’s #2 official, he threw his support behind St. Louis businessman Dave Spence.  Was that a mistake?  Could [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Just when we think that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have reached the absolute pinnacle of outrageousness, we find that they have topped themselves.  Now we see Obama, in what must be the most cynical political pander of all time, traveling around the country on Air Force One, attempting to [...]

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A story that bears many similarities to the one involving Solyndra, the Fremont, Calif., “green energy” company that received $500 million in federal loan guarantees shortly before filing for bankruptcy, is taking place in tiny Moberly, Mo. Founded in 1866, Moberly is a town that, according to the city’s website, seemed to spring from the [...]

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Today, I was reminded of those awful days of gas lines and fuel shortages in the 1970s by a FuelFix.com article, Obama Administration Repeating Energy Mistakes of 1976, that includes the following paragraphs: All of this year’s stimulus-gone-sour stories represent another case of politicians refusing to learn from the past and, therefore, dooming us to [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Democrats complain endlessly that “millionaires and billionaires, big oil companies and corporate jet owners” are not paying their fair share.  It’s all political flim-flam, which is what Democrats do best, and it’s all beginning to wear a bit thin.  If nothing else, their propaganda writers need to take a [...]

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