Bob McCarty Writes

Be sure to visit KLPW.com and click on the “Listen Live” button at 9:15 a.m. Central.  I’ll be on The Diane Jones Show until 10 a.m., talking about news of the day — including President Barack Obama’s “White House to Main Street Tour” — and other topics I’ve been covering on this blog. After that, [...]

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I love to point out the idiocy of those on the Left who point to Ernesto “Ché” Guevara as a hero when, in reality, he was something completely different.  In a Feb. 6, 2009 post, I quoted Dr. Dr. Douglas Young from a piece he wrote for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: The real Guevara was [...]

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The last time President Barack Obama visited a Saint Louis-area high school, I was there.  Outside Arnold High School.  Almost 11 months ago.  Marking what I had labeled his “First 100 Daze”  in office.  Tomorrow, I plan to be outside — or, at a minimum, somewhere nearby — Saint Charles High School when #44 comes [...]

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Having worked with journalists at NHK while living in Japan 20 years ago, I was excited to see a crew from the Japanese television network at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon.  My first thought:  “The local tea party movement had finally earned a spot on the world stage.”  But I was wrong. [...]

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One year ago this week, I published a post that highlighted a music video, “OBAMA, NO MERCI BEAUCOUP”, written and performed by Poor James and the Swamp Crows. At the time I published it, it had recorded only a few views.  Today, it’s been viewed by more than 10,000 people worldwide.  Band member James Earl [...]

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A speaker at the Tea Party in Washington, D.C., said an ABC reporter estimated 1.5 million people in attendance.  Judging by the photo above from Shane Vanderhart at Caffeinated Thoughts Darren Labrum I think that might be low. See also: Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit reports that 12,000 people descended on Quincy, Ill., today for [...]

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It was just over four months ago that patriotic activities in the Mark Twain-crazy community of Quincy, Ill., popped up on my radar.  In a post May 5, I chronicled the incident in which local businessman Steve McQueen was denied his Constitutional right to be heard at a city council meeting because of the fact [...]

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