Bob McCarty Writes

In honor of Mother’s Day 2011, I share the photo above of my Mom and Dad shortly before he deployed to Europe to fight German forces in Northwest Germany during World War II and she went to work in an ammunition factory in Iowa. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom, and thanks for everything you’ve done for [...]

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Today is Mother’s Day, one of the country’s most-honored national observances and a holiday that is definitely not trivial. The idea started in 1908 with Anna Jarvis of West Virginia, honoring her recently-departed mother who had hoped that, one day, there would be a day to commemorate all mothers. By 1911, every state observed Mother’s [...]

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Mother’s Day is Sunday, and Republican John McCain is using the occasion to put the political spotlight on Roberta McCain, his 95-year-old mother, in a very apolitical way. Yesterday, the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign released the video above, knowing it was something which none of his Democrat challengers could compete. Smart move.

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I remember Terry Neese speaking at political events in Oklahoma almost 20 years ago, telling people what it was like growing up at the end of a dirt road in Cookietown, Okla. Today, she’s still sharing good stuff like that, but she does it on a national scale as a Distinguished Fellow at the National [...]

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Here’s a summary of some of the most interesting finds on the web this weekend: First, this Canada Free Press piece, Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York State, shows just how lax Homeland Security appears to be sometimes when it comes to immigration and terrorism. Now a “hat’s off” to the good [...]

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