Bob McCarty Writes

Earlier today, I published a post about five Afghan students reported missing for more than a week from the campus of the University of Washington.  After contacting a variety of individuals and government agency representatives, I am now able to shed more light on the matter. At 2:52 p.m. CDT, I received some answers to [...]

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Three words — terror, terrorism and terrorists — came to mind after reading a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan being reported missing from the University of Washington.  None of those words, however, appeared in the left-coast newspaper article, despite the fact that our nation is waging a war [...]

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After South Carolina Democrat Party officials got wind of allegations of wrongdoing by the presidential campaign of Stephen Colbert, they voted 13-3 yesterday to keep the comedian off the ballot. In a Tuesday post, Did Stephen Colbert Hire Illegal Aliens?, I published details of how, according to anonymous staffers inside Colbert’s fledgling campaign, the Comedy [...]

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Only days after announcing his intention to run for president of the United States, Stephen Colbert seems to be in hot water. According to staffers working inside the fledgling campaign who spoke with Bob McCarty Writes on condition of anonymity, the host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report is being investigated by Immigration and Customs [...]

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Bernard, at A Certain Slant of Light, published an insightful post yesterday on the subject of immigration and the way the topic is treated by decision-makers on the staff of a newspaper in one of the nation’s largest cities, Houston. Take a look at how it begins: James Pinkerton, who normally gets front-page coverage in [...]

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Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis published an opinion denying Vong Xiong, a 29-year-old citizen of Laos who became a lawful permanent U.S. resident in 1993, the right to remain in the United States after committing a “particularly serious crime” in October 1997. Xiong was convicted of third-degree [...]

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