Gotta love Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito! During President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, he was caught on camera shaking his head in disagreement and then mouthing the words, “Not true.” Justice Alito’s negative response came after President Obama said, “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme [...]
Supreme Court Justice Alito to Obama: ‘Not true’
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments
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Double-Standard at Saint Louis University?
January 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Does a double-standard exist at Saint Louis University? Recent events at the Jesuit university might cause you to believe one does. This weekend, SLU’s Muslim Students’ Association hosted a three-day conference, “Saving Our Deen: Living a Muslim life in a not-so Muslim world,” at the school’s Busch Student Center. Part of the conference agenda — [...]
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Anti-Obama Billboard Draws Attention in K.C. Area
October 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments
An anti-Obama billboard in the Kansas City area is attracting a lot of attention today including news coverage in the video report below from NBC Action News, the city’s NBC affiliate. Located along I-70 between the Adams Dairy Parkway and the Grain Valley exits, the billboard reads, “How do you like your change now? Obama [...]
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Google Gives Reason for Blocking MassResistance
July 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: Thanks to a Google Alert for the terms “Fox News” and “Josh Miller”, a Fox News reporter who interviewed me four months ago (see this BMW post for details), I came across a post published yesterday on Craigslist in Boston that caught my attention. Posted by someone associated with the Massachusetts-based MassResistance blog, it [...]
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House Bill Threatens to ‘Cyber-Bully’ Blogger
May 6th, 2009 · 7 Comments
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, [...]
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Tea Party Organizer Muzzled at City Council Meeting (Update)
May 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Could it be that Steve McQueen was denied his Constitutional right to be heard at a Quincy, Ill., city council meeting because of the fact that he is the chief organizer of the Quincy Tea Party movement? It sure appears that way. It was the last thing McQueen expected to have happen when he appeared [...]
Tags: · Bob McCarty, First Amendment, tea party movement
Poll: Majority of Americans Say News Media to Blame for Making Economic Crisis Worse
December 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Is the news media to blame for making economic crisis worse? According to new poll results released by the Opinion Research Corporation today, they are. An overwhelming 77 percent of Americans believe that the US media is making the economic situation worse by projecting fear into people’s minds. The majority of those surveyed feel that [...]
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