Bob McCarty Writes

I admit it.  It was a cliche´ of a headline, but I opted to use it anyway to announce news that Democrat Charlie Wilson, a long-time Congressman from Texas’ 2nd District, has died at 76 in his hometown of Lufkin, Texas. His hometown newspaper, The Lufkin Daily News has the story about the man who [...]

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This morning, Don Surber points his readers to a web archive image (above) of an article published in the June 27, 2004, edition of the Sunday Standard, Kenya’s oldest newspaper.  The headline, Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate, makes me think about two things:  (1) Michael Johns’ article about Barack Obama’s birth documents and [...]

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Editor’s Note: Several times during the past few years, I’ve turned to Michael Johns, a White House speechwriter during the George H.W. Bush presidency who brings a more-scholarly-than-average approach to the news topics of the day.  Three weeks ago, he tackled the issue which, if one is on the “wrong” side of it, can get [...]

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A lot has been written about William F. Buckley Jr. since his passing last week. If you haven’t read enough already, I highly recommend you read Michael Johns’ piece about the conservative icon. It begins his way: It can be said that modern conservatism knows only two times. There was the time before him and [...]

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Suspecting it to be a left-wing effort to shift credit for defeating the Soviet Union’s military in Afghanistan almost 30 years ago away from Ronald Reagan and to a Democratic Party congressman from Texas whose name the film bears, I told myself I wouldn’t spend good money to see Charlie Wilson’s War. I changed my [...]

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In a post yesterday, I blogged about an experience common to bloggers — that is, receiving an e-mail in which a total stranger tells you, “Love your blog,” immediately before asking, “Will you add me to your blogroll?” Today, I want to alert you to a new blogger, Michael Johns, the man whose blog, Michael [...]

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