Bob McCarty Writes

Kids across the United States would be cheering if they paid any attention to the news coming out of the nation’s capitol.  “What news would they be cheering?” you ask.  Here it is:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a two-year stay of enforcement of the lead content provisions of section 101(a) of the Consumer Product [...]

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Seven days ago in the post, Forget Guns and Ammo, It’s Time to Hoard Ink Pens, I shared news about how the Consumer Product Safety Commission was expected to issue a ruling regarding whether or not 95 percent of all ink pens sold for use in schools or by children under the age of 12 [...]

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When it became clear that Barack Obama would be elected president of the United States, Americans began to buy guns and ammunition at a record pace.  With the Consumer Products Safety Commission expected to make an important decision tomorrow about the future of the lowly ink pen, Americans might want to consider hoarding ink pens.
The [...]

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Unlike the lead poisoning most often associated with toxic paint on toys and other made-in-China products, another type of lead (sounds like “reed”) poisoning never surfaced as a tactic in Hillary Clinton’s so-called “kitchen sink” strategy aimed at cutting Barack Obama’s lead in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. And for good [...]

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I’m not too familiar with the the group, Campaign for America’s Future, which claims to be concerned, like so many Americans, about the incidence of lead-contaminated toys and other products from China making it to the shelves of U.S. stores. I do, however, like their humorous take on the issue of tainted toys which is [...]

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