Bob McCarty Writes

While making a guest appearance this morning on The Diane Jones Show, a talk radio program that airs on KLPW-AM 1220 in the St. Louis area, I was asked to discuss the heated special election race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.  Rather than rehash all of the reasons why I, unlike Newt Gingrich, am [...]

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Appearing as the opening paragraph of a piece published today in the AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, the following words form the almost-too-perfect complement to the cartoon above:
Change was in the air—and on the way—in November, as the AFL-CIO’s biggest-ever political mobilization headed toward the finish line. Tens of thousands of union volunteers packed local union halls [...]

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Who’s missing from the caricature above?  It appears the right answer might be Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general picked yesterday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
I base this assessment upon the content of a National Legal and Policy Center report published over 5 years ago in [...]

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With less than four weeks to go before Americans elect their next president, I fear the outcome of the Nov. 4 election (i.e., a Barack Obama win) will have me thinking about the name of an anti-tobacco advertising campaign during the next four years — and possibly longer.
“Nothing Will Ever Be the Same” is the [...]

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