Bob McCarty Writes

I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but I have some advice for those of you who expect to take part in the costume- and candy-intensive ritual this year.   Make the most of it!  Why?  Because Halloween 2009 will serve as a teachable moment about socialism if Barack Obama becomes the nation’s 44th president. In [...]

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Today is Mother’s Day, one of the country’s most-honored national observances and a holiday that is definitely not trivial. The idea started in 1908 with Anna Jarvis of West Virginia, honoring her recently-departed mother who had hoped that, one day, there would be a day to commemorate all mothers. By 1911, every state observed Mother’s [...]

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My one-man campaign to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD — instead of Cinco De Mayo — continues today despite a government public relations counter-efforts during the past week that surfaced in the form of news releases like this one and this one issued by the U.S. Census Bureau. Why the Census Bureau feels [...]

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In yet another counter-punch to CINCO DE MUSTARD efforts, the U.S. Census Bureau has once again attempted to focus the nation’s attention on Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrating Mexican culture and heritage. The agency’s news release today — the third in less than a week — offered this repetitive pitch: While Cinco de Mayo [...]

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For the second time in three days, the U.S. Census Bureau has seen fit to put the nation’s Hispanic population in the national spotlight as a holiday celebrating Mexican culture and heritage approaches: Two days ago, the bureau launched a public relations counter effort to the campaign to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD [...]

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Efforts to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD — instead of Cinco De Mayo — continue despite a government public relations counter-effort that surfaced today in the form of a news release issued by the U.S. Census Bureau: Cinco de Mayo celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a [...]

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Have you ever wondered where your federal tax dollars go? If you have, then the information below is for you. The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, according to two reports published by the U.S. Census Bureau. That represented a 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005. The first of [...]

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