Bob McCarty Writes

If you’re inclined to compare drilling for natural gas to using a straw to sip soda pop from a can, you’re sorely misguided.  In reality, extracting natural gas from Piceance Basin wells is more comparable to standing inside a freezer and trying to get frozen soda pop from a can that has no pop-top opening.  [...]

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More than 18 months have passed since CBS News aired the 60 Minutes segment, “Amazon Crude,” which painted Chevron Corporation in a particularly bad light for alleged wrongdoing in Ecuador.  Now that a laundry list of new and irrefutable facts has surfaced to change the complexion of this case, one has to wonder why the [...]

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KMOV Channel 4, the CBS television news affiliate in St. Louis, broadcast an illegal immigrant tearjerker story Tuesday, making me wonder what point, if any, investigative reporter Craig Cheatham was trying to make.  Watch… The cold, hard reality of the situation is that when “Miguel”, the illegal immigrant who entered this country illegally from Mexico [...]

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More than 2,200 people packed the health care town hall meeting Wednesday morning in St. Charles, Mo.  Even if they had wanted to skew their coverage, the overwhelming anti-ObamaCare sentiment at the St. Charles Convention Center likely convinced them otherwise. Below are video clips of the coverage of the meeting provided by three St. Louis [...]

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The differences between news reports on the recent massacre of hundreds in Nigeria are stark. Listening to St. Louis’ KMOX-AM 1120 this morning, I heard the CBS Radio News report about about some 200 people being killed in “sectarian violence” during the past few days had left at least 200 dead in Nigeria.  Conversely, Australia’s [...]

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Almost a year has passed since the editorial cartoon above appeared in a BMW post published under the headline, Obama Has Yet to Fulfill Pledge of Transparency. Unfortunately, it seems nothing has changed since he took office — and people are starting to notice. In the video below, C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb talks about how [...]

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In the middle of reading a CBS article about President Barack Obama’s day in Hawaii, I think I heard a sucking sound — you know, the kind of sound that comes members of the White House press corps generate as they suck up to the current head of household at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Here’s why: [...]

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