Bob McCarty Writes

The kind of bag Americans might soon need is different than the song-inspiring bag into which they packed all their troubles nearly a century ago — and it’s not a “kit” bag. In 1915, when George Asef and Felix Powell came up with the lyrics for the song, “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old [...]

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Bob Geldof announced today that, on July 13, he will stage the first of a series of 12 “LIVE RAID” concerts to benefit Somali pirates. In much the same way his 1985 “LIVE AID” concerts raised funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, Geldof said the “LIVE RAID” events will benefit the Muslim pirates who, in [...]

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Thanks to the ruthless and inept 30-year leadership of Robert Mugabe, the economic situation in Zimbabwe is so bad that an advertising agency created billboards, flyers and wallpaper out of near-worthless Zimbabwean currency.  Due to the similarly-inept leadership — or lack thereof — of Barack Obama, I’m afraid that the future of the U.S. dollar [...]

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Before I had a chance to raise my virtual voice in opposition to an opinion piece by the Guardian‘s Jonathan Freedland, Mike Bay had already taken the bull by the horns and straightened out the British writer. Freedland began his piece with the paragraph below (and it didn’t get any better): The feeling is familiar. [...]

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In a post eight months ago, I asked the question, Why is ‘Grandma Obama’ Still Living in a Hut? Yesterday, I published a post about the discovery of another Barack Obama relative — a half-brother — living in a hut in Africa.  Now, I’m wondering whether or not the most-recent Obama-related discovery was just a [...]

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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart used the phrase, “I know it when I see it,” in the opinion he wrote about a landmark 1964 case that decided whether a French film, The Lovers, was an example of pornography. Almost 44 years later, another scourge has surfaced and holds the potential to inflict great pain and [...]

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