Bob McCarty Writes

Everyone knows the Barack Obama Administration will strive to be the greenest in modern times. But you might not know how un-green the presidential inauguration is going to be.  The Institute For Liberty scratched together some rough figures for illustrative purposes, and our new analysis Carbon Bigfoot finds: Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private [...]

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Who received the most money from Wall Street executives (i.e., the folks Barack Obama referred to in a recent speech as the ones “who got us into this mess”)?  According to one report, Obama tops the list of politicians who’ve been bought and paid for by the same folks responsible for the recent collapse of [...]

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I almost forgot that today is World Alzheimer’s Day.  But I didn’t. Twenty-six million people across the world are living with Alzheimer’s, according to a news release from the Alzheimer’s Association, and that number will quadruple by 2050.  By mid-century, more than 100 million people will be living with this degenerative disease that kills brain [...]

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A new drug is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments, according to a Daily Mail Online report today. In fact, British scientists say, it halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer’s disease. Wow! That sounds good and all, but will it be effective against Partzheimer’s. Partzheimer’s (a.k.a., Convenient Memory-Loss Syndrome) is [...]

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The testimony of the federal government’s star witness in the trial of indicted political fixer Tony Rezko appears to contradict Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s past statements that he does not recall meeting Iraqi-born billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, according to an ABC News report. In other words, it appears that yet another high-brow politician has succumbed [...]

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Two negative influences are impacting Americans at this time: Reality television and presidential politics. Thanks to the ongoing strike by film and television writers, television viewers are being subjected to increasingly-desperate examples of reality TV programming. The latest unfortunate example, NBC’s Clash of the Choirs, airs Monday and pits amateur choirs against each other, singing [...]

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Smart and energetic people sometimes make costly mistakes. Such is the case with corn farmers, politicians and the push to develop ethanol as an alternative fuel. Working together, corn farmers and politicians have conspired to promote ethanol as an alternative fuel, promising its use will help to relieve this country of its dependence upon foreign [...]

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