Bob McCarty Writes

While the KXAN television news video below paints a graphic portrait of the damage wrought by wildfires in the Texas Hill Country east of Austin during the past two weeks, it makes no mention of three blameworthy factors that might have played pivotal roles in reducing the size and scope of this red-hot disaster. The [...]

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Based solely on the number of aircraft involved in President Barack Obama’s March visits to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador, it appears the “Traveler-in-Chief” is trying to set new records for presidential travel costs. According to a very reliable Air Force source who asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, President Obama’s recent tour of [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the text of a news release issued today by the National Inflation Association. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last night did not make one single mention of inflation, when it is the belief of the National Inflation Association that massive price inflation (especially food inflation) will become America’s [...]

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Even before President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address tonight, the good folks at the American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard had issued a strong rebuttal, saying, “The President can do more.” The complete text of that rebuttal appears below: “The American people spoke loud and clear in the last [...]

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I tend to be against funding of special projects that reek of favoritism and payback.  On the other hand, I tend to agree with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) when it comes to so-called “earmarks reform.” The senior senator from Oklahoma describes the push to eliminate earmarks as a phony issue. Fox News is reporting on [...]

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Facebook is a great tool for sharing information and misinformation alike.  Want proof?  Ask U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri’s 8th Congressional District. In an entry on her Facebook page Monday, the lobbyist-turned congressman’s wife-turned congresswoman introduces a Bloomberg article about a $160 billion Fannie-Freddie Fix by writing, “This is the mother of all [...]

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Out of all the 50 states and Washington, D.C., Missouri’s response to open-records requests seeking detailed grant spending records in electronic form such as a spreadsheet turned out to be among the most unusual, according to a report, the “Price of Peril”, released today by the Center for Investigative Reporting. This isn’t the first time [...]

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