Bob McCarty Writes

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation is the same man who represented Stanford Financial Group and its now-indicted founder R. Allen Stanford between 2002 [...]

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Guess which online publication saw fit to mention my work in the same virtual breath as writers at The Swamp (The Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau blog), the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and the Democratic Underground?
Give up yet?  Click on the graphic above right to see the answer, then come back.
Yes, thanks to a [...]

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An analysis of the words spoken by President Barack Obama during his hour-long news conference Tuesday night shows that, while answering reporters’ questions, he uttered a variant of the word “uhh” at least once every nine seconds.

Though relying upon a flat-screen monitor placed behind a throng of reporters instead of his much-maligned teleprompter, President Obama [...]

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FairTax.org, the grassroots campaign to replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax, announced in a news release they are running full-page ads (pdf) in papers across the country praising the FairTax as “The World’s Biggest Economic Jumper Cables.” today that they have begun running.
Ads will run this week in the Los Angeles [...]

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Few statements are more true than the one made in the headline which appeared above Con Coughlin’s blog post published today:  Israeli elections hang in the balance.  It’s the details, however, that paint a vivid picture of what’s at stake.
According to the Foreign Policy section of the White House web site, President Barack Obama wants [...]

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