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Top News Stories of 2011 Covered Here

December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

A number of stories qualify as “top news” during 2011, and Bob McCarty Writes was on top of most of them. THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ On Jan. 26, I blew it when I published a post speculating about anti-government protests in the Middle East were signs of the Tea Party Movement going global.   Then, during the [...]

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Questions Surround Killing of Osama Bin Laden

May 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger The killing of Osama bin Laden on Sunday, May 1, 2011… or Sunday, April 24, whichever White House version of the event you choose to believe… has confronted us with a number of quandaries and anomalies. For example, exactly how should we feel about American special operations forces charging [...]

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Inside the Minds of Obama Admin Officials (Update)

May 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Despite the fact that an official White House photo shows more than a dozen senior officials reportedly watching a live video feed of the Navy SEALs raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, the Obama Administration seems awfully confused about what happened. The video above reveals some of the thoughts that were likely going [...]

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Revisited: Filmmaker’s Claim That He Found OBL

May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Remember when Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker behind the “Super Size Me,” said he had found Osama Bin Laden?  Makes you wonder if this fast-food-familiar guy had anything to do with helping the U.S. Navy SEALs locate the Al-Qaeda leader said to be the mastermind of the terror events of Sept. 11, 2001.  [...]

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Does Osama Bin Laden’s Death Matter?

May 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: Almost four years ago, I published a post under the headline, Dead or Alive — Does Osama Bin Laden Matter? In light of the death of the Al-Qaeda terror mastermind, which I covered in posts here and here during the last 12 hours, I’ve decided to republish that post today.  It appears below. [...]

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Trump: ‘Obama Needs to Show Us The Body’ (Update)

May 2nd, 2011 · 5 Comments

Hours after hearing President Barack Obama tell the world Sunday night that terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden is dead, billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump is demanding the White House produce the body of the Al-Qaeda terror mastermind. “If, as the White House claims, U.S. forces were successful in killing Osama Bin Ladena, Obama needs [...]

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Terror Mastermind Osama Bin Laden Dead (Update)

May 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments

Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera broke the news tonight that Al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden is dead, the result of a U.S. strike more than a week ago. [Editor's note:  Geraldo turned out to be wrong.  See second update below.] Rivera’s news came as the nation waited for President Barack Obama to speak during [...]

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