Bob McCarty Writes

It’s today’s big news story:  Jurors convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on 17 of 20 counts, including all counts related to trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.  To mark this momentous occasion, I’m sharing the “Best of Blago Editorial Cartoons” below that have appeared on this [...]

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Tonight, I simply had to share the Rebel Pundit video below that features conversations with and observations of attendees at a recent “We Are One” union solidarity protest rally held in Chicago. Did you notice who attended the rally? Members of radical, anti-American labor unions and political parties.  Watch and share, people, before it’s too [...]

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Maybe St. Peters’ ‘potato lady’ should be mayor. The words above appeared as the headline of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article Nov. 27, 2005, and could be considered prophetic if not for the fact that the woman in question, Dolores Sherman, isn’t running for mayor. Sherman, 85, is running for one of two Ward One [...]

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With the memory of Vince Foster, the former White House aide who supposedly committed suicide in 1993, stuck firmly in the recesses of my mind, I felt compelled to float a “trial balloon” by readers of this blog:  Did John Wheeler III Know Too Much? Mental note: I know, I know! This trial balloon will [...]

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See no evil.  Hear no evil.  Speak no evil.  Report no evil. That seems to be the order of things in Chicago these days after the city’s election commissioners voted, 3-0, to allow Rahm Emanuel’s name to remain on the Feb. 22 Chicago mayoral ballot. Forget that Emanuel isn’t a legal resident of the city.  [...]

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For more than a year now, the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity has taken aim at Dollar Tree stores in nearly two-dozen shopping centers across the metro.  Why?  Because they’re miffed about the national discount retailer’s decision to use out-of-state labor to perform labor tasks at their stores. Though union members [...]

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Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) is no saint, but the words he used over the weekend, as captured in the  in the National Public Radio audio (below) , showcase Chicago politics — Rahm Emanuel and all — at its worst and should serve as a warning to Americans about what the future holds if Congress passes [...]

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