Bob McCarty Writes

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis is, perhaps, the best video yet to explain the current economic crisis and offers details about the political players involved, including presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and several of the folks most responsible for the crisis.
UPDATE 9/29/08:  It appears the video that is the [...]

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Ten self-described pro-democracy groups are calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to make public the secret debate contract negotiated by the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns.  The list of groups involved includes:
Open Debates, Common Cause, Fair Vote, Judicial Watch, Democracy Matters, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, Rock the Debates, Personal Democracy Forum, Reclaim [...]

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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, I’m [...]

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A New York Daily News report this morning highlights how Barack Obama’s staff performed virtual surgery of sorts over the weekend, purging his campaign web site of the presumptive Democrat Party presidential nominee’s harsh criticism of the successful troop surge initiated by President George W. Bush last year. After reading the piece, I fear [...]

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Today, I found a photograph of a dead hawk that, in my opinion, might come to symbolize the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race.

The photo (at right) shows the claw of a dead songbird protruding from the chest of the hawk and suggests two things:

First, it suggests the songbird fought to the bitter end; and

Second, it [...]

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