Bob McCarty Writes

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger Democrats are fond of talking about the Clinton era budget surplus President George W. Bush “squandered” and the terrible financial mess President Barack Obama “inherited.” Both arguments ignore a few basic facts. First, presidents don’t control spending, Congress does. Second, outside events have to be taken into account before you [...]

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President Barack Obama knows all too well how easy it is to criticize others when you’re not in charge.  Five years ago, as shown in the video below, he seemed to revel in criticizing President George W. Bush for allegedly taking too long to respond to Hurricane Katrina and for being ineffective when he did [...]

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The Obama Administration wants Americans to believe the economy is beginning to turn around and that President Barack Obama’s efforts are starting to result in more and more “saved and created jobs.”  Ask Rick Misch for his assessment of the economy, however, and you’ll find the economic picture he sees daily isn’t as pretty as [...]

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In an article published recently on the web site of Oklahoma’s largest newspaper, I was disappointed by the words attributed to the executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum said about President Bill Clinton on the occasion of the announcement that her group will honor the nation’s 40th president with the Reflections [...]

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This is big news.  Late this morning, I obtained a heavily-edited draft copy of a not-yet-released secret memo.  Originally dated Aug. 1, 2003, my sources tell me it was “spirited out” of the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sometime during the past five days. Most telling about the memo (below) is the [...]

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The annual “Yellowstone is shaking and might erupt” news reports have surfaced, prompting me to ponder how the Obama Administration might respond to a natural disaster with its epicenter at the national park. The New York Times, among others, reported today that more than 100 mostly-tiny earthquakes a day, on average, have rattled a remote [...]

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The headline above isn’t true, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see headlines like it pop up during the next few days following news that senior Obama Administration officials had ordered a suspension of airlifts of critically-ill Haitians to the United States. While driving to St. Louis Lambert International Airport earlier this evening, I heard [...]

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