Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Wall Street meltdowns?  Banking industry bailouts?  Hedge fund hanky-panky?  Multi-million-dollar Wall Street bonuses?  Collapse of the dollar?  National debt default?  Economic collapse?  Who can possibly make sense of it all?  How did it happen, and who’s to blame?  Did George W. Bush create the mess and leave it for [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Democrats complain endlessly that “millionaires and billionaires, big oil companies and corporate jet owners” are not paying their fair share.  It’s all political flim-flam, which is what Democrats do best, and it’s all beginning to wear a bit thin.  If nothing else, their propaganda writers need to take a [...]

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It’s a rare occasion when I link to an ABC News item, but I simply couldn’t resist sharing the video below that accompanied an article showing the impact of the poor leadership of President Barack Obama and Congress:  Yesterday, some 5,000 people showed up at a job fair in Atlanta sponsored by the Congressional Black [...]

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After catching a glance at a Washington Times article about President Barack Obama taking his so-called “debt team” out for 1,700-calorie burgers today at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a cartoon by David Donar at Political Graffiti that appeared on this site more than two years ago [...]

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If the Environmental Protection Agency succeeds in advancing new ozone standards, places like Yellowstone National Park — where naturally occurring ozone levels can exceed the standard — won’t be able to meet the new requirements.  And that’s not the half of it when it comes to EPA’s regulatory overreach! Two recently-released studies show that the [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger The post-industrial era in the United States has been dominated by two vastly different economic philosophies – the Keynesian model and the Supply Side model. Keynesian theory, generally associated with economic policies of Democratic presidents… and to a lesser degree Republican presidents… from Franklin D. Roosevelt through Barack Obama, [...]

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Listening to the news reports out of Washington, especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s weak-kneed  budget proposal, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the early decades of the 21st century in the U.S. will be characterized by one of two governing principles: nullification or partition. Thomas [...]

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