Bob McCarty Writes

Below are a half-dozen news headlines I found worthy of twisting into one-liner observations that might make you laugh: Hallmark introduces gay marriage greeting cards. Does anyone still shop there? Living with humans has taught dogs morals, say scientists. Perhaps, politicians should try living among humans. Fifty-eight-year-old Mark Spitz says Michael Phelps couldn’t have beat [...]

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I never thought I would be thankful for something I found on CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s blog, but today I am. In a Maureen Miller post five days ago on the AC360 blog, I found a decent article accompanied by a priceless video that combine to provide a flashback to 2007 when John Edwards was [...]

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Near the end of his article published in the Rocky Mountain News today, writer Kevin Vaughan included one man’s claim that conditions required for attendance at Barack Obama‘s acceptance speech at Invesco Field during the Democratic National Convention Aug. 28 in Denver amounted to nothing less than blackmail: A man, who spoke to the Rocky [...]

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John Edwards, the Democratic Party presidential candidate who withdrew from the race in January, admitted to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff today that he did have an extra-marital affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter. He claims, however, that he did not father the child that has been the focus of recent National Enquirer reports. The [...]

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The launch of a new political action committee, known as Matthew 25 Network, might be more helpful to Republican John McCain than to Democrat Barack Obama, the candidate the group boldly endorses on its web site. Despite being skeptical of any group that markets itself on a faith angle while supporting candidates that favor abortion, [...]

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Forget the issues of global warming, Iraq, health care and, most importantly, jobs and poverty. Democrat John Edwards will add “Drop Out of the Race” to the to-do list that appears on his campaign web site’s home page. The former North Carolina senator and John Kerry running mate will, according to news reports this morning, [...]

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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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