Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition, defines “incest” as, “The crime of cohabitation between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.” However, it took an ugly confrontation between Wisconsin’s unionized public employees and their employer, the State of Wisconsin, to redefine the term and to finally [...]

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The White House granted waivers allowing 111 organizations to escape the unfair, unConstitutional, job-killing aspects of President Barack Obama’s health care reform (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”).  The Fox News Channel video below explains. To read other BMW posts mentioning ObamaCare, click here.

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The U.S. Postal Service’s just-released 2009 Annual Report contains some hard-to-swallow numbers about the agency’s efficiency, effectiveness and long-term viability.  Most disturbing among them is the number reflecting net losses during fiscal year 2010:  $8.5 billion. The USPS only lost $3.8 billion the previous year despite, according to a Nov. 16, 2009, news release, implementing [...]

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I just finished a 10-minute interview with Jeff Horwich, a reporter with American Public Media’s “Marketplace“, a program carried on more than 500 public radio stations across the country. Asked questions about the recently-released consumer confidence numbers and the relationship between those numbers being down and the news media’s reporting on the economy, I focused [...]

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Experts at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced today the results of a study about two primary ways the United States could be harmed by a large-scale biological attack.  In reviewing the study, I recognized two eerie parallels between the devastating aftermath of a bio attack and the negative [...]

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A writer for BusinessWeek once suggested Foster Friess “may be the longest-surviving successful growth-stock picker, having navigated markets for 36 years, in his own firm since 1974.”  I consider the Wyoming billionaire a staunch advocate for private-sector solutions and a great source for sound advice that comes from a Christian world view. [Note: I used [...]

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Early this afternoon, I asked individuals at the weekly anti-socialism rally in O’Fallon, Mo., to share their greatest fears now that President Barack Obama has signed government-run health care (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) into law. In response, they shared concerns about rationing of health care and the possibility of receiving no health care at all. They shared [...]

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