Bob McCarty Writes

When I read the results of a BBC World News America/Harris Poll released today that show more than half — 57 percent — of Americans believe Iraq is better off today than it was before the U.S. invasion seven years ago, I couldn’t help but recall what Barack Obama and Sen. Harry Reid had to [...]

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“The accused fox was cleared of all charges after none of the hens who had occupied the henhouse prior to the alleged incident appeared in court this morning to testify against the fox.  Reporting live from the criminal court building in London, this is Peter Johnson reporting for BBC News.” Of course, the paragraph above [...]

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First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines?  They focus on something far less important than the fact that the e-mails exchanged between researchers at the UK’s East Anglia [...]

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On the 20th anniversary of the bloodshed known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, there appears to have been little or no rain clouds at the site in Beijing where university students waged an anti-government protest.  There were, however, enough umbrella-toting government officials present to prevent members of the Western news media from reporting much news [...]

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The introduction reads as follows: Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and [...]

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Offering what might be a glimpse into the future of the nation’s health care system under President Barack Obama, the British Broadcasting Corporation published an article this morning about a court ruling that will likely result in doctors unplugging a nine-month-old boy (a.k.a., ‘baby OT”) from the life-sustaining equipment that is keeping him alive. Click [...]

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Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) drew criticism from liberals for saying he fears President-elect Barack Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.  I wonder, however, how those same liberals will react upon learning that representatives of the Taliban are comparing the president-elect to both the leaders [...]

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