Bob McCarty Writes

During a 45-minute conference call with journalists this morning, Jack Gerard shared some startling predictions about the future health of the nation’s oil and natural gas industry if the Obama Administration gets its way in adding more regulation and increasing taxes on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  The biggest one of all is [...]

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Take a wild guess at the name of the national publication in which the headline above recently appeared.  Was it: The Wall Street Journal The Weekly Standard; The Dallas Morning News; or BusinessWeek. If you guessed Business Week, you would be right.  For the first time I can remember, I recommend you read an oil [...]

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Rumors are spreading fast and furiously among supporters of recently-fired Texas Tech University football coach Mike Leach.  But are they true?  I investigate. Perhaps the most-volatile rumor floating about is that Leach was ousted in a fashion similar to the one that cost John Kerry the presidency in 2004. Albeit in a much-abbreviated fashion, they [...]

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Thanks largely to John McCain‘s selection of Sarah Palin as his Republican vice presidential running mate, it appears the “Obama Phenomenon” is, as National Review Online‘s Peter Wehner predicted in an article published June 13, beginning to be recognized as an “Obama Myth.” Werner wrote: If voters begin to believe that the Obama Phenomenon is [...]

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The Dallas Morning News reported in an article yesterday that Rep. Duncan Hunter won the Texas Republican Straw Poll Saturday, followed by Fred Thompson in second and Rep. Ron Paul in third. If, however, the video below is accurate, Paul might have finished higher — perhaps even in first place — if only his supporters [...]

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