Bob McCarty Writes

The headline of a Roll Call article describes the climate change legislation being introduced today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) as “Radioactive.”  Many in the nation’s capitol agree. At the American Petroleum Institute, President Jack Gerard offered some choice words for the measure serving as the Senate counterpart to the House’s [...]

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Just a few days ago, the Guardian newspaper reported that the conservation charity WWF and an ad agency admitted that a press campaign comparing the loss of life in the New York 9/11 attacks and the Asian tsunami “should never have been made” (see ad campaign image at right). Today, a Washington Independent report highlighted [...]

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It appears Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) wants the United States to get “L.O.S.T.”  Today, he’s pushing for quick passage of the controversial United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty. According to a report published yesterday in The New York Times, Senator Kerry — who, by the way, served in Vietnam — [...]

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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, [...]

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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; [...]

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Today, I noticed that a post — Should ‘Official French Surrender Flag’ Be Retired? — published in May 2007 was getting more attention than usual, but I didn’t know why. Hoping to solve this minor mystery, I typed “surrender flag” into a Google search box and hit “Enter.” Next thing I knew, two images — [...]

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I couldn’t resist putting up this video clip as a way of letting readers of this blog know that Don’t Taze Me, Bro! merchandise continues to fly out the doors of The Bob McCarty Shop. Who would have guessed that t-shirts, sweatshirts and other items commemorating the now-famous words of Andrew Meyer could become so [...]

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