Bob McCarty Writes

Today, I happened upon a news item at AdRants about a large pharmaceutical company’s guerrilla marketing effort that involved the use of apparently-homemade posters to advertise their product. It inspired me to produce the poster below (click to enlarge). I think it carries a message many Americans can embrace, especially in consideration of the present [...]

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This morning, the Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition used a news release to tackle two objectives. While the “headline” objective was to announce that HHA had launched a re-designed website, the primary objective seems to have been reminding the world that HHA members think Michael Savage is targeting Muslims with on-air “hate speech” [...]

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The inability of presidential candidates — namely Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — to tell the truth has received a lot of attention in both traditional and new media during recent months. Today, however, it appears a solution is available that could help voters detect a lie as it emerges from a candidate’s mouth. [...]

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Having passed a thorough background investigation on my way to qualifying for a high-level security clearance and earning a commission as an Air Force officer, I’m disturbed every time I read an article about the qualifications — or lack thereof — of Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to serve as commander in [...]

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What a difference a year makes. A review of two Bob McCarty Writes posts published a year ago this week reveals exactly how much things have changed during the past 12 months for two presidential candidates. In a Feb. 1, 2007, post, CNN Compares Obama to Ahmadinejad, I reported that the Atlanta-based cable news giant’s [...]

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For the first time ever since 2000, “Fat Tuesday” and “Super Tuesday” – this year dubbed “Super Duper Tuesday” — fall on the same day, Feb. 5. If you’re not familiar with the term, Fat Tuesday, you might be quicker to recognize it by its French name, Mardi Gras. Each year, this event draws hundreds [...]

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Democrat presidential candidates have used the word “change” a lot during the past week. In fact, Barack Obama used the word to win the Iowa Democrats Caucus and John Edwards appeared to embrace it during the ABC News New Hampshire Debates tonight — but they did so without offering many specifics. Curious to understand exactly [...]

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