Bob McCarty Writes

Thanks to contributors David Donar at Political Graffiti, Curtis D. Tucker at Curtoons.com and “Michael” at the now-defunct My Personal Litmus blog, I was able to share a great number of fantastic editorial cartoons.  Below, I share the first five of my Top 10 favorites of 2009 in no particular order.  Click on any image [...]

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I like to describe this blog as offering a mix of humor, politics, culture and capitalism.  In reviewing this blog’s Top 10 posts of 2009, I found humor attracted the most page views.  Topping this year’s Top 10 list was a July 2 post, Evian Water Babies Commercial — Wow!, which featured the incredible video [...]

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While making a guest appearance this morning on The Diane Jones Show, a talk radio program that airs on KLPW-AM 1220 in the St. Louis area, I was asked to discuss the heated special election race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.  Rather than rehash all of the reasons why I, unlike Newt Gingrich, am [...]

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Remy’s new rap, captured in the video above, tells the truth about the incorrectly-named Employee Free Choice Act (a.k.a., “Card Check”), the subject of more than a half-dozen posts on this blog, including this one highlighting an editorial Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson (R-S.C.) wrote about the act and this one featuring the graphic below: [...]

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Thanks to Rep. Joe Wilson, a post I published almost five months ago about the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (a.k.a., “Card Check”) is receiving a lot of page views tonight.  Why?  Because the South Carolina Republican was courageous enough to call President Barack Obama a liar on the floor of the U.S. House of [...]

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There I was, in a Grand Junction, Colo., hotel room killing time while waiting for the my trip-related activities (see BMW Visiting Western Colorado’s Piceance Basin for details) to begin this afternoon, when I came across the latest editorial cartoon effort by Michael at My Personal Litmus.  While he calls it “People’s Propaganda #4,” I [...]

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In a recent editorial published in the Aiken (S.C.) Standard, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) explains what’s wrong with efforts to do away with the use of secret ballots in elections that will decide whether or not a workplace is unionized.  Excerpts of that editorial appear below: Each individual would be required to publicly declare their [...]

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