Bob McCarty Writes

On Oct. 2, Catherine Bleish was one of a handful of speakers who revved up a crowd of 2,000 at the St. Charles (Mo.) Tea Party.  Ten days later, she found herself in jail in the South St. Louis city of Maplewood.
“I was standing in line outside,” the 25-year-old told me Monday afternoon during an [...]

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Almost half a century ago, then-private citizen Ronald Reagan spoke out against government-run health care (a.k.a., “socialized medicine”) as proposed by Democrats of the day.  Part of the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign, the voice of the man who went on to become the nation’s 40th president appeared on LPs sent out by the American [...]

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Today, I came across news of a disturbing incident that took place March 29. It involved Steve Bierfeldt, director of development for Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty organization, and Transportation Security Administration screeners at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
I learned about the incident while visiting the web site of Jan Mickelson, host of “Mickelson in [...]

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Five days ago, a Missouri law enforcement agency’s confidential report about the so-called “Modern Militia Movement” inspired me to publish a post, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! (Third Update).  Soon after, that post caught the eye of Joshua Rhett Miller, a news editor at FoxNews.com.  He interviewed me over the phone [...]

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This morning, I read an article by former Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin that brought to my mind the wise words attributed to Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana more than 100 years ago:  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Baldwin wrote the article after his name — as well as [...]

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