Bob McCarty Writes

During the past month, I’ve published four posts about the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill and the detrimental impact it will have on the country if passed.  Today, I offer two videos from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill.  If you’re like me, they will make you wonder [...]

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“ONE VOICE AGAINST SOCIALISM” was the message on the sign carried by 68-year-old grandmother Janet Allquist six months ago when she began a one-woman campaign against socialism and government run amok. Today, her message continues to resonate through weekly Saturday afternoon rallies at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo.
Allquist was joined [...]

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Though it took place in the suburban St. Louis hamlet of Dardenne Prairie not far from where I live, I never imagined the devastating impact 13-year-old Megan Meier’s death Oct. 17, 2006, might have on my career as a blogger.  In short, I feel like it might “cyber-bully” me out of existence.
If, God forbid, House [...]

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Last week, CNBC’s Rick Santelli launched a call for a “Chicago Tea Party” from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  As explained in this post Saturday, his call spurred a movement that soon spread to cities nationwide.  Now, it appears that movement has reached St. Louis.
On Friday at 11 a.m., the Saint Louis Tea [...]

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Some things are just plain wrong.  One of them is the automatic 2.8 percent — or $4,700 each — pay hike members of Congress are due to receive early next year unless American citizens convince them otherwise — and quickly!
On Jan. 22, 2008, Reps. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) attempted to prevent this [...]

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