Bob McCarty Writes

After President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, a confusing headline appeared above an article published on the front page of the Army web site:  President orders 12,000 Soldiers, Marines to Afghanistan. Appearing with a photo of soldiers in combat, the headline runs counter to the statements [...]

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While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included. The missing detail in the piece by Laurie Kellman was the one that would have explained how and where former [...]

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The FDIC issued a news release Friday to let the world know the agency’s board had approved a letter of intent to sell IndyMac Bank to a thrift holding company controlled by IMB Management Holdings LP.  Though one of the men involved in purchasing the bank shares the same last name as Treasury Secretary Henry [...]

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Few Americans realize the number of people murdered in Chicago during 2008 was larger than the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq during the same period. In a Sept. 4 post, I noted an effort by Chicago’s CBS television affiliate to change that fact. CBS2Chicago broadcast a report that included an interesting stat — [...]

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NewsBusters was among the first to identify the tactic being employed by top Democratic Party leaders following their party’s election victory in November:  Lowering expectations of a Barack Obama presidency. In a piece published Dec. 14, NewsBusters’ Warner Todd Huston pointed out that an Associated Press article was, in essence, preparing the country for a [...]

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In an article published today, the folks at the Pew Research Center report today that the scandal surrounding Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich (a.k.a., “Blago-gate”) filled more than a quarter of the news hole from Dec. 8-14, as measured by the News Coverage Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Mark [...]

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In 1905, Spanish philosopher George Santayana made a famous observation:  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) displayed his appreciation for Santayana’s wisdom by telling Associated Press he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship: “It [...]

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