Bob McCarty Writes

Since the folks at Technorati announced last month they were changing the way they calculate a blog’s “Technorati Authority,” I’ve been stumped by the low number (70) displayed in the Technorati widget near the bottom of this blog’s left sidebar.  After all, I’ve been blogging full-time for more than three years and think I deserve [...]

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I’ll be making a guest appearance on KLPW-AM 1220’s The Diane Jones Show Wednesday morning at 9:15 a.m. Central to discuss a variety of mostly-political topics.
Readers in Missouri’s Franklin County, St. Charles County and West St. Louis County who attended the St. Charles Tea Party Oct. 2 might recall that Jones was the energetic woman [...]

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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 rally, [...]

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By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com
“Someday, somewhere, somebody is going to have the guts to release that stuff,” said David P. Schippers, speaking to me by phone from his office in downtown Chicago Tuesday afternoon.
The “stuff” to which Schippers was referring is surveillance-camera footage recorded in [...]

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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 post [...]

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