Bob McCarty Writes

In a post Dec. 5, 2007, I expressed skepticism about fast-food filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s claim that he had found Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Three months later, I wrote a post about the release of a trailer for Spurlock’s documentary, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Since then however, I’ve heard very [...]

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The controversy generated by the Olympic Flame World Tour has captured many headlines in recent weeks. This morning, Associated Press reported that the flame had arrived in Malaysia ahead of a relay in which it will be guarded by 1,000 police watching for protests against China’s Tibet crackdown and human rights record. But [...]

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Writer Anthony Browne opines about China being “the real master of the universe” in an article published in the UK’s Daily Mail today. While addressing many topics, the one discussed in the paragraph below caused me to pause and reflect:
What would those Victorian masters of old have made of the fact that Chinese security [...]

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In this post, I raise two questions: “Is Osama Bin Laden dead?” and “Does it matter?”
The answer to the first question is “Yes” — that is, if you believe the sources cited by Robert Fox in the first paragraph of an article he wrote for Great Britain’s The First Post today:
Osama bin Laden, charismatic [...]

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In a post March 27 at Bob McCarty Writes, I highlighted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and his vow “to stall former vice president Al Gore’s hotly anticipated Live Earth Concert (a.k.a. “let’s make money by exploiting global warming concert”) on the grounds of the nation’s Capitol. Today, I am happy to report the U.S. [...]

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