Bob McCarty Writes

Craig Robinson, the 47-year-old Chicago native and brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, just completed his second season as head coach of the Oregon State University Beavers men’s basketball team.  Unfortunately, he seems to have been victimized by the “Obama Curse.”
Robinson was hired to replace a coach who had lead the team to a 6-25 [...]

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State employee pension systems are facing severe shortfalls, and these growing liabilities threaten to drive many states deeper into the red, according to a new 50-state study released today by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the nation’s largest individual membership association of state legislators.
In “State Pension Funds Fall Off a Cliff,” Drs. Barry Poulson of [...]

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Below is the the first paragraph of a just-released news release about the Justice Department’s decision to launch an investigation into the murder of controversial late-term abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller:
The Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas have launched a federal investigation into federal crimes in connection [...]

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Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around the world died.  Toward that end, a visit to the National Archives produced a letter written [...]

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By Bob McCarty
One might think an accomplished journalist like Armen Keteyian capable of providing objective coverage of the oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, the chief investigative reporter — and former sports reporter — appears to have allowed personal bias and/or professional ignorance to get in the way of the facts in his report that appeared [...]

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