Bob McCarty Writes

About two months ago, I began receiving robo-calls from Michael E. Carter, a candidate for Missouri’s lieutenant governor post who is exploiting the average Joe’s immense dislike of automated phone calls (a.k.a., “robo-calls”) by — you guessed it — using the very tactic he purports to dislike. Below is a chronological review of my [...]

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Earlier this week, I received an automated phone call to my home from Michael Carter, a Democrat running for lieutenant governor in Missouri. His pitch:
“If you would like to stop other politicians from calling you, visit my web site and add your name to the National Political Do Not Call Registry.”
His call piqued my [...]

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Suspecting it to be a left-wing effort to shift credit for defeating the Soviet Union’s military in Afghanistan almost 30 years ago away from Ronald Reagan and to a Democratic Party congressman from Texas whose name the film bears, I told myself I wouldn’t spend good money to see Charlie Wilson’s War. I [...]

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“I’d rather be ruled by a competent Turk

than an incompetent Christian.”

Asked who he would support in the 2008 presidential race, a Southern Baptist friend of mine cited the statement above, made by Martin Luther, the protestant reformer who lived five centuries ago, as a partial basis for his decision.
In explaining his decision, my friend cited [...]

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