Bob McCarty Writes

Yesterday, an online friend of mine, Tom Birkenmeier, published a post under the very long headline, An Idea Whose Time Is Long Overdue! How Modern Medical Science Can Help Us Select Better Senators, Congressional Representatives, Federal Judges And Supreme Court Justices.  Here’s a snippet: I hear a lot of people, me included, saying things like: [...]

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After watching the Wisconsin budget battle for more than a week and seeing reports that some of the scenes from Madison are likely to be replayed in other states, I’ve concluded that now might be the time for Americans to require politicians to sign a new kind of pledge before their names appear on any [...]

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The fact that conservatives experienced a landslide in the elections Nov. 2 doesn’t mean that Janet Allquist and the K and N Patriots are finished doing what they do best. For more than 18 months, members of the K and N Patriots have held Saturday rallies at the intersection of Highways K and N in [...]

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When I learned over the weekend that the Free Vietnamese Mutual Association of Quad Cities will support Illinois Republican Bobby Schilling in his bid to unseat liberal Democrat incumbent Phil Hare in the 17th Congressional District race, I was reminded of a story I published Aug. 19. That story focused on the hardships, past and [...]

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It’s not often when one can draw parallels between professional athletes and elected officials in Washington, D.C..  Today, however, one of those opportunities surfaced, causing me to conclude that politicians, like professional football players, should donate their brains to science. The idea began to gel in my mind when the National Football League announced just [...]

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A crowd of more than 300 gathered at Memorial Plaza outside the St. Louis County (Mo.) Government Building in Clayton Saturday afternoon as part of the Million Med March protest against health care reform measures now under consideration in the nation’s capitol. Medical professionals, many of whom donned white coats, were joined at the rally [...]

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I’m not a fan of rap, but I like the content of the message being delivered by “Stiltz” and “Serious C” in the music video above by the Young Conservatives. A dynamic duo of conservatism, the rappers describe themselves as having a devout mission aimed at spreading the love and logic surrounding true conservatism.  The [...]

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