Bob McCarty Writes

I try to limit my political reporting to topics impacting my state of residence, Missouri, and/or the nation as a whole, but I couldn’t resist a story taking shape a few hours north of St. Louis in Illinois. The long and the short of it goes like this:  The differences between two candidates vying for [...]

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Above (left to right):  Rod Blagojevich, Jesse Jackson Jr., Barack Obama and David Axelrod. One year ago today, Rod Blagojevich became the first sitting Illinois governor to be impeached and booted out of office by the Illinois Senate for, among other things, allegedly trying to “sell to the highest bidder” the U.S. senate seat once [...]

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One year ago today, Rod Blagojevich became the first sitting Illinois governor to be impeached and booted out of office by a 59-0 vote of the Illinois Senate in Springfield. Now, the 53-year-old Democrat and his lawyers are waiting for the next shoe to drop in legal wranglings related to allegations that he attempted to [...]

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By a 59-0 vote of the Illinois Senate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached this afternoon in Springfield. The 52-year-old Democrat becomes the first sitting governor in the Land of Lincoln’s pockmarked history of corruption to be impeached, convicted and booted out of office. He will, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, be replaced [...]

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Early this afternoon, I came across a post, 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time, published Sept. 17, 2008, at Nerve.com.  Listed 17th among the “buzziest” blog posts is a four-year-old entry from the apostropher blog.  It’s headline raised the still-unanswered question, “Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ?” Aside from the obvious attention-getting aspect of the [...]

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