Bob McCarty Writes

With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]

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By Paul Hollrah, Guest Blogger By far the most frequently asked question in America since August 28, 2008, the closing day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is this: “Does Barack Hussein Obama meet the constitutional qualifications to serve as President of the United States?”  With every reason to believe that he does not, the [...]

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In a post one year ago today, I opined about the nation’s energy future under then-President-Elect Barack Obama: While Americans wait for Barack Obama to take office, the nation’s energy future hangs in the balance.  Still, amidst so much uncertainty, a review of the president-elect’s statements and actions in recent months offers an ever-so-slight glimmer [...]

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Members of the mainstream media — people who call themselves “journalists” — seem to have paid absolutely no attention to a Congressional Research Service report on energy released Oct. 27 — this, despite the fact that two energy-related measures (i.e., the Kerry-Boxer and Waxman-Markey) are at the center of heated debate now taking place on [...]

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The United States could be energy independent if it possessed the collective political will to make it happen.  After all, the country has the largest energy reserves on earth, according to a recently-released Congressional Research Service report. As shown in the first chart below, the United States’ 1,321 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) tops [...]

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A spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee said that remarks by the White House press secretary on October 7, “once again demonstrated that the White House is a partner in an ongoing smuggling operation, which if successful will result in funding of abortion on demand by the federal government.” The following exchange (which [...]

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The latest update of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s candidate cost analysis project shows that, despite their different styles, John McCain and Barack Obama have one thing in common:  both would add billions more to the taxpayer’s tab every year.  Surprisingly, NTUF found one candidate who will cut spending: Former Georgia Republican Congressman Bob Barr. [...]

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