Bob McCarty Writes

It appears the United States Mint is trying to compete with the popularity of a new Barack Obama-inspired coin set by launching the first redesigned Lincoln One-Cent Coin in 50 years at Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and on the 200th anniversary of President Lincoln’s birth. Below are three new penny designs that will be released this [...]

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If President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months, he will be tempted to describe himself as an emancipator in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.  Unfortunately, as shown in the My Personal Litmus cartoon above, the terror suspects who will inevitably be released from “GITMO” as a result of [...]

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Albeit late and in a far-too-abbreviated manner, at least one member of the mainstream news media has finally admitted that he and his brethren in the Fourth Estate failed to properly vet President-elect Barack Obama when he was a mere candidate for the highest office in the land. In an otherwise left-leaning commentary published Thanksgiving [...]

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In my ‘Tuesday Evening Quarterback’ post yesterday, I shared my belief that American conservatives, perhaps, would have preferred someone more like Ronald Reagan to be their team’s starting quarterback (i.e., presidential nominee) and mentioned Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) as a worthwhile choice.  Today, Senator Coburn released the following statement regarding last night’s election results [...]

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Todd Lohenry opens a post today at The Right Side of Wisconsin by claiming that, if elected, Barack Obama will be the nation’s first Arab-American president and bases his claim upon a single word reportedly printed on the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s father’s birth certificate.* Lohenry contends the following: Barack Hussein Obama is not half [...]

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On this date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War, announcing that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by Jan. 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free. Two months earlier, President Lincoln read his “preliminary [...]

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According to the postscript of an article making the rounds at sites like Human Events and Newt.org, “Ambassador Eckert is leading an effort to have President Ronald Reagan’s image added to Mount Rushmore alongside Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.” The article’s writer, Newt Gingrich, concludes with this plea: “I urge you [...]

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