Bob McCarty Writes

I receive a lot of e-mails every week.  They come from individuals and groups, including nonprofit organizations in the nation’s capitol.  One of the best e-mails I received this week came from Charles Huang at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and has to do with one of my pet-peeve subjects, climate change (a.k.a., GLOBULL WARMING).  It [...]

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Two weeks after an AARP health care town hall in Dallas went “South,” news outlets reported 60,000 membership cancellations.  Hoping to stem their losses, spokespersons for the organization — which purports to represent the interests of American seniors — were quoted during the days that followed as saying the group does not back “everything” in [...]

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In a post published June 18, 2007, I shared news of an ABC News story published under the headline, Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe. ABC News correspondent Brian Ross reported that large teams of newly-trained suicide bombers were being sent to the United States and Europe. According to evidence contained in a [...]

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Bob McCarty Writes is now featured daily on Alltop’s “Top Political News” page, a Top 10,000 web site. After nearly three years of operation, BMW now appears alongside stand-alone blogs like Hot Air, Instapundit and Townhall and next to the sites of major media outlets, including ABC News, Drudge Report, New York Times, Roll Call, Wall [...]

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Jake Tapper’s Political Punch post, about a “newsgathering” effort (see video above) launched recently by the Obama Administration, reminded of something I learned during my brief tenure as a graduate student studying Russian language at Oklahoma State University almost 25 years ago. Under the tutelage of Dr. John Schillinger almost 25 years ago, I learned [...]

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As evidenced in the comments below (and others), President Barack Obama and his underlings seem fixated upon blaming the current economic crisis on President George W. Bush’s efforts to deregulate industry: “But come on, we’re not — we are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that for the [...]

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On the homestretch of the 2008 presidential election season, ABC News technology writer Michael Malone expressed what so many Americans feel they already know in his article, Media’s Presidential Bias and Decline, published Friday.  It begins this way: The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution [...]

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