Bob McCarty Writes

In a post one year ago today, I introduced the nation to “Barack Obama’s Seven Mystery States Coin Collection.” Today, I share updated details about the unique and collectible coin set that continues to remind Americans of the seven mystery states that, on May 9, 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he had visited while [...]

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Thanks to contributors David Donar at Political Graffiti, Curtis D. Tucker at Curtoons.com and “Michael” at the now-defunct My Personal Litmus blog, I was able to share a great number of fantastic editorial cartoons.  Below, I share the second five of my Top 10 favorites of 2009 in no particular order.  Click on any image [...]

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Thanks to contributors David Donar at Political Graffiti, Curtis D. Tucker at Curtoons.com and “Michael” at the now-defunct My Personal Litmus blog, I was able to share a great number of fantastic editorial cartoons.  Below, I share the first five of my Top 10 favorites of 2009 in no particular order.  Click on any image [...]

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Recently (here and here), I’ve noted President Barack Obama inclination toward dropping the names of some of his predecessors — including Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan — into interviews with members of the news media. Because I fully expect the president to continue this practice until his current [...]

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The image of Homeland Security Secretary Janet “Big Sister” Napolitano on the My Personal Litmus-designed poster above says it all:  “BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU.”

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There I was, in a Grand Junction, Colo., hotel room killing time while waiting for the my trip-related activities (see BMW Visiting Western Colorado’s Piceance Basin for details) to begin this afternoon, when I came across the latest editorial cartoon effort by Michael at My Personal Litmus.  While he calls it “People’s Propaganda #4,” I [...]

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Michael, the creative mind at My Personal Litmus, believes the 60-year-old animated short, Make Mine Freedom (1948) above should be shown to every school child in the United States.  Furthermore, he writes: The animators of this beauty must have had a looking-glass into the future to get things so dead on, he writes.  Check out [...]

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