Bob McCarty Writes

I happened to notice Glenn Beck had an audience of first-generation Americans, most from one-time communist countries.  That in mind, I thought I would share some of my interviews with the same kind of people — from Brazil, Cuba, India and Romania.  Enjoy! First, Glenn’s… Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com See this post for [...]

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Every year, it gets more difficult to decide what to include in my end-of-year wrap-up stories.  This year, I decided to reflect on my favorite interviews of 2010.  They appear below: Roy Blunt Needs Education About Tea Party Folks — During a Feb. 26 interview with Roy Blunt, the seven-term congressman who would go on [...]

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On his Fox News Channel show this afternoon, Glenn Beck highlighted the issue of illegal immigration by playing host to an audience made up entirely of legal immigrants.  Below, rather than try to steal his thunder in this space, I highlight the legal immigrants I’ve featured on this blog during the past 12 months: ‘Let [...]

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Twenty-six years ago, Ionel “Greg” Grigore came to the United States from Romania in search of freedom and opportunity.  Today, the 54-year-old St. Louis businessman finds himself again battling dark political forces not unlike the ones that caused him to want to leave the Eastern European homeland of his birth. Recently, I spoke with Grigore [...]

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While attending the K and N Patriots’ weekly anti-socialism rally Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo., I had the good fortune to meet Ionel “Greg” Grigore and his mother Dumitra. The Grigores, 54 and 74 respectively, came to this country during the 1980s in search of freedom and [...]

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Today, I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing Ionel “Greg” Grigore and his mother Dumitra (see photo above), first-generation Americans from Romania who shared with me their first-hand experiences of living in a land without freedom and opportunity. The Grigores were among a crowd of nearly 100 people rallying for freedom and against tyranny [...]

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When I read in a Department of State news release this morning that Fran Drescher will be appointed the nation’s newest public diplomacy envoy Monday morning, I immediately surmised that Condoleezza Rice and her gang at the State Department had lost it.  A few moments later, however, I realized the brilliance of such an appointment. [...]

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