Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger I remember it well.  I remember the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of May 1954.  I remember Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.  And I remember Martin Luther King Jr., his non-violent protests, his Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, and his famous “I have [...]

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A realization suddenly popped into my head today:  The Democrat National Committee is a Weapon of Mass Destruction. While the Democratic National Committee might never discharge a nuclear, biological or chemical weapon, the things they support — such as the public sector union employees protests in Madison, Wisc., among other things — are nearly as [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger It has not been a good year for President Barack Obama and the Democrats. And while most of the bad news was generated by Obama himself and the “ship of fools” he has surrounded himself with in the White House, it was congressional Democrats who paid the price Nov. [...]

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WARNING: To ensure you realize you’re not in the middle of a bad dream, pinch yourself before watching the Breitbart.com video below. Every thinking American knows the 111th Congress was, perhaps, the worst — definitely not the “most productive” — Congress in this nation’s history as news anchors nationwide might have us believe. The new [...]

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Pizzeria owner-turned politician Bobby Schilling learned this week he will serve on the House Agriculture and Armed Services Committees after he takes the oath of office to represent Illinois’ 17th Congressional District in the 112th Congress. In the photo above, Congressman-Elect Schilling (left) shakes hands with veteran Bill Allbracht. During a recent gathering, Allbracht presented [...]

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Two pieces of election news failed the “smell test” when they surfaced in Missouri today, and both tie directly to the Carnahan family, the liberal Democrat clan that spawned two 2010 candidates — Russ Carnahan, incumbent in the 3rd Congressional District, and his sister, Robin Carnahan, a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The first item [...]

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When I learned over the weekend that the Free Vietnamese Mutual Association of Quad Cities will support Illinois Republican Bobby Schilling in his bid to unseat liberal Democrat incumbent Phil Hare in the 17th Congressional District race, I was reminded of a story I published Aug. 19. That story focused on the hardships, past and [...]

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