Bob McCarty Writes

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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Two and a half months after 39-year-old Kenneth Gladney (right) was allegedly beaten in St. Louis by SEIU thugs outside Bernard Middle School, charges have finally been filed against six individuals, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The charges come 15 days after I asked the question, Why No Charges in Kenneth [...]

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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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Though I wrote about plans for the St. Louis Tea Party and fully intended to be there this morning on the grounds of the world-famous Arch, a broken hand — the result of playing basketball 3-4 nights a week against young men less than half my age — prevented me from doing that today.  In [...]

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Though I can guarantee you 100 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man (i.e., me), the analysis tools behind the new Gender Analyzer site concluded that only 80 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man.  Should I feel insecure about that?  Not exactly, considering the following: Regular [...]

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With more than 4,200 page views today, Bob McCarty Writes passed the one-million page views mark for 2008 — and we still have three months remaining in the calendar year! While that might not seem like a lot, especially when compared to the big blogs (i.e., Michelle Malkin at Hot Air and MichelleMalkin.com; Glenn Reynolds [...]

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