Bob McCarty Writes

While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included.
The missing detail in the piece by Laurie Kellman was the one that would have explained how and where former heavyweight [...]

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It’s been another record-setting year at Bob McCarty Writes.  Three days shy of the new year, this blog has logged more than 1.9 million page views and attracted nearly 500,000 unique visitors.
Much of this blog’s success is due to the popularity of 25 most-viewed posts published on this blog during 2008.  The headlines and lead [...]

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A controversial photo (right) that captured Barack Obama sitting alone in a room, barren except for a framed photo of champion boxer Muhammad Ali upon the wall behind him, has been pulled from the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s web site.
In a post on this blog 11 months ago, I described the photo this way:
On the [...]

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While Monday marks the 44th anniversary of the first heavyweight boxing match between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay), it’s a photo from their May 25, 1965, rematch that has generated a great deal of interest on this blog and should have — but, unfortunately, has not — generated at least [...]

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A long-time political junkie and public relations practitioner, I spend time each day surfing the web sites of presidential candidates. Visiting the Barack Obama photo gallery today, I found the photo above as the eighth of 11 available for viewing.*
On the surface, it seems innocent enough. The tired Democrat presidential candidate. Seated. [...]

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