Bob McCarty Writes

Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right?
1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government.

2.  Obama said his energy [...]

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Look at the statements below, then try to guess the identity of the person Lou Pritchett was describing as someone who “scares” him in a letter published May 19 at DallasBlog.com:

I know nothing about you;
I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no [...]

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President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons!
Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan:
“The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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In response to my inquiry about whether St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the world’s largest private-sector coal company, had any reaction to the content of the San Francisco Chronicle audio which ends with Barack Obama saying he would take steps to effectively “bankrupt the coal industry,” I received the following statement from company spokesperson [...]

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Partnership for a Secure America, a group that recently gave the U.S. Government a “C” grade for its efforts to prevent a nuclear, chemical or biological terror attack on America, used a news release this morning to raise five questions (below) for Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain to answer.  Those questions appear below, [...]

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