Bob McCarty Writes

I find myself especially thankful that all three of my sons are old enough that they no longer require toys with every fast-food meal they order.  Why?  Because fast-food purveyors are now including politically-correct reading material — as a toy substitute — in their kid’s meal offerings.  Case in point: Taco Bell®. I became aware [...]

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Editor’s Note: Thanks to a Google Alert for the terms “Fox News” and “Josh Miller”, a Fox News reporter who interviewed me four months ago (see this BMW post for details), I came across a post published yesterday on Craigslist in Boston that caught my attention.  Posted by someone associated with the Massachusetts-based MassResistance blog, it [...]

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After seeing the photo of President Barack Obama trying to enter the White House through a window instead of a door, I was reminded of something from the world of advertising that has troubled me for some time:  Television commercials for home security systems. The typical home security system commercial shows a bad guy busting [...]

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In a post three days ago, I asked a question — Will Obama Be First Arab-American President? — none in the mainstream news media have dared to address.  It followed my reading of a Wisconsin-based writer’s claim that, if elected, Barack Obama will be the nation’s first Arab-American president.  Today, I ask another race-related — [...]

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In a post published yesterday, I drew parallels between the advertising tactics of FreeCreditReport.com and the campaign tactics of Barack Obama. Today, I invite conservative video producers to help me further expand the connection between the company and the candidate in a humorous and telling way. In short, video makers are invited to participate in [...]

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Should you be concerned about traveling to St. Mary’s airport on the U.K. Isles of Scilly? Only if the airport hires one of the candidates who used a Braille application form to apply for an air traffic controller position there. That’s right. An article in today’s Telegraph explains the matter: An airport has been accused [...]

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Stephen Miller, national director of the Terrorism Awareness Project, wrote an interesting editorial, Naming the Enemy, that does a great job of highlighting the differences between modern-day Hollywood and this country’s film industry before and during World War II. Take a look: I recently saw the long-awaited fourth installment of the Die Hard franchise, Live [...]

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