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January 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Below are some designs from The Bob McCarty Shop that I haven’t highlighted in quite a while.  Click on any image below to see the variety of t-shirts, sweatshirts and other merchandise on which the image appears.  Thanks in advance for supporting Bob McCarty Writes!

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Obama’s State of the Union Speech in Tweets

January 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Something new this year:  I decided to tweet my way through President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech and ended with 69 tweets which appear below in reverse chronological order:

OOOH, OOOH, OOOH! he ended early!!! Thank you, Jesus! less than [...]

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On Slavery, Presidents Share Nothing in Common

April 5th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama share several things in common:  Both were lawyers; both served in the Illinois legislature; and both were elected president of the United States.  When it comes to the issue of slavery, however, the men share nothing in common.
While President Lincoln worked hard to earn a place in modern history [...]

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Obama Budget: ‘Economic Suicide and Revolution’

March 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama’s profligate spending programs, in aggregate totaling many trillions of dollars, translate to the act of printing money at a rate never seen in human history, writes Doug Ross in a post today.  Experts, from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to Democrat economists, believe that these plans put America on a glide-path to [...]

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EARMARX: Combination of Socialism, Spending

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Almost a week ago, I published post in which I announced the coining of a new term, EARMARX.
Simple to understand, it couples the word used to describe wasteful federal government spending (i.e., “earmarks”) with the last name of a person who will forever be associated with socialism (i.e., “Marx”):
EARMARKS + SOCIALISM = EARMARX

Today, I launched [...]

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