In a post published yesterday on his web site, Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) lists nearly three-dozen “wasteful and non-stimulus spending provisions” in the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill. Those provisions appear below: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year [...]
Senator Lists Wasteful Provisions of Stimulus Bill
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
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Mystery Solved: Why So Many Missouri Kids Smoke
November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m not a smoker, but I might have an answer to the mystery of why, according to a just-released report (pdf) from a coalition of public health organizations, Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco. First, some background from a news release about the report: Missouri currently spends [...]
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ACLU Predictable in Representation of TB Cases
June 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
In a Bob McCarty Writes post May 3, I asked the following question: If liberals oppose the GITMO-style approach to dealing with people who want nothing less than to wipe America off the map, what will they say to locking up people when the next disease pandemic sweeps the planet? Three days ago, after news [...]
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Blogger to Repeat as Randy Tobler Show Guest
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment
For the second week in a row, I’ll be a guest on The Randy Tobler Show. During the 7:30 a.m. segment of the show which airs Saturday morning on St. Louis’ 97.1 FM Talk, Dr. Randy Tobler and I will discuss topics covered in two Bob McCarty Writes posts published during the month of May. [...]
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