Bob McCarty Writes

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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It’s late on a Friday night, and I just came across Byron York’s must-read piece at National Review‘s The Corner about Michelle Obama, gleaned from her words during a recent appearance in Zanesville, Ohio. The piece offers incredible — yet frightening — insight into the extreme-left liberal socialist views that make up the belief system [...]

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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart used the phrase, “I know it when I see it,” in the opinion he wrote about a landmark 1964 case that decided whether a French film, The Lovers, was an example of pornography. Almost 44 years later, another scourge has surfaced and holds the potential to inflict great pain and [...]

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After hearing news about Mitt Romney — and his Mormon faith — being smeared as part of a “push call” campaign in Iowa, I told my wife Romney himself was probably responsible for the calls. Why? Because he had the money to do it and, when done right, such an effort would give the former [...]

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Under the headline, Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language, Jim Geraghty begins his piece in National Review Online’s The Campaign Spot this way: Fred wowed ‘em, the crowd loved McCain’s rejoinder to the Code Pink protester, Mitt Romney’s video went over well, and Rudy Giuliani earned their respect. But the guy who absolutely looked the [...]

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In a National Review Online piece last week, Governors Win: The case for Mike Huckabee, S. T. Karnick hit the nail right on the proverbial head in the first two paragraphs, writing: Look back into the history of the past century, and one U.S. political-cultural truth is eminently clear: Governors win the presidency. Just consider [...]

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