Bob McCarty Writes

Four news headlines jumped out at me this morning, prompting me to want to share them with you: Obama’s Silence May Cost Israel — The Israel National News reports that Barack Obama’s absence of any substantive statements about the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has been based on the principle that “there is [...]

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Three days after it began, the terror attacks in Mumbai appear to be over.  Unfortunately, those attacks might spark new conflict between India and Pakistan. The Times of India reports 195 people were killed and more than 300 injured as a result of the well-coordinated attacks at 10 locations frequented by Westerners in the cosmopolitan [...]

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Reports of Westerners being attacked and killed in Mumbai, India, are hitting the news wires now, with death counts ranging from 16 to 80 depending upon the source. Initially, Fox News Channel reported the Taj Hotel was attacked and is on fire and as many as 25 deaths in the city known as India’s financial [...]

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Whatever you do, my loyal readers, please don’t let anyone in Washington, D.C., find out about this news reported by Reuters Monday: Last month, authorities in a southern Indian state fined people caught urinating in public view for a few days. This week, officials in a remote town started offering people money for using public [...]

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Rice is produced worldwide and is the primary staple for more than half the world’s population, according to the USDA Economic Research Service’s Rice Report. So when prices for this food staple and others skyrocket overnight, it’s not surprising to see that riots and unrest are being predicted around the world: Philippine activists warn about [...]

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A man needs only peruse the headlines of his local newspaper or online news site to encounter a seemingly-endless list of threats to his very existence. That in mind, I decided to provide a one-day snapshot of the current threats, all taken from today’s headlines, in A-to-Z* order: A = Al-Qaeda (See Padilla sentenced to [...]

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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart used the phrase, “I know it when I see it,” in the opinion he wrote about a landmark 1964 case that decided whether a French film, The Lovers, was an example of pornography. Almost 44 years later, another scourge has surfaced and holds the potential to inflict great pain and [...]

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