Bob McCarty Writes

Almost five months after Billy Long won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in Missouri’s 7th Congressional District, some people are wondering whether the words used on the campaign trail by the auctioneer and real estate industry mogul-turned-politician were serious or just a World Poker Tour-style bluff for votes. First, some background. On Nov. [...]

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Conservative blogger Clay Bowler of Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom became the victim of a witch hunt this week after a complaint by recently-elected U.S. Rep. Billy Long prompted FBI agents to visit him at his Ozark, Mo., home. According to the Republican serving Missouri’s 7th Congressional District, Bowler was a threat to him.  Another Jared [...]

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When St. Louis was named the most dangerous city in the United States almost three years ago, I sent an e-mail to Rush Limbaugh.  In it, I let the conservative talk radio icon know I was willing to serve as an embedded reporter in the Gateway City and offer reports from the Show-Me State’s chart-topping [...]

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Thanks in part to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the Obama Administration’s unrelenting attacks, the nation’s oil and gas has been the focus of a lot of media attention in recent months.  On Thursday, the American Petroleum Institute hosted a blogger conference call and made several industry experts available to address a variety of topics [...]

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Illegal immigration reform is, once again, at the forefront of public attention thanks in part to the appropriate stance taken by Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) and members of the Arizona legislature took on the issue recently.  Therefore, I reissue my call for Americans to stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo until our nation’s borders are secure [...]

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Thanks to Chuck MacNab, the chief anti-socialism blogger at Rite-On.org, for his far-too-kind piece published Sunday about my recent efforts aimed at covering the anti-socialism rallies at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo. Not only did he publish the photo (right) of me wearing the red sweatshirt at the Oct. 17 [...]

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This is my 3,144th post at Bob McCarty Writes.  What have I learned while keeping my eye on the world during almost three years as a full-time blogger?  A lot and nothing at all. Among many things I could share is the fact that I now realize one can really never know how popular a [...]

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