Bob McCarty Writes

EDITOR’S NOTE: I waited to publish this piece until after the Army Clemency and Parole Board made public it’s decision concerning the case of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna.  Why?  Because I did not want to divert anyone’s attention from the 26-year-old Army officer’s case and what seems like overwhelming evidence to suggest, first, that Army [...]

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Philadelphia Daily News contributor Fatimah Ali appears to be trying to scare the nation into voting for the Democratic Party ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In an article published today, she predicts a John McCain victory in November will result in “a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed [...]

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Last week, I opined about the possibility of airlines charging passengers by the pound in a post, Airlines Might Impose Weight-Based Fares.  Today, I came across news about three Philadelphia media outlets that ran spoof newspaper ads for a fictitious carbon-neutral airline, Derrie-Air.  Take a look at it as it’s well worth your time and, [...]

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On October 30, 1938, Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio drama based upon the H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds. The fictitious program’s storyline — about an alien invasion of Earth — genuinely frightened many Americans. Among the most frightened, however, were those people who had either tuned in to the broadcast [...]

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