Bob McCarty Writes

Editor’s Note: It’s Friday afternoon and a good time to share a story originally published on a blog belonging to my friend and one-time boss, Ron English.  It’s appears below as told by his friend, Ron Zywotko:
I was in Seattle preparing for my next meeting when I received a call from the pastor. He confirmed [...]

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Call it what you will, but a movement is starting to pick up steam, powered by Americans upset with the reckless actions being taken by elected officials in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.  Apparently, people have reached the point where they’re ready to stand up to politicians who seem more than willing to mortgage the futures [...]

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Homicide statistics for 2008 in Seattle do not justify a proposal by anti-gun Mayor Greg Nickels to ban legally-carried handguns from public property, nor his plan to lobby for a change in the state’s preemption law, according to Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation.
“Less than half of Seattle’s homicides in 2008 [...]

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Three words — terror, terrorism and terrorists — came to mind after reading a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan being reported missing from the University of Washington.  None of those words, however, appeared in the left-coast newspaper article, despite the fact that our nation is waging a war [...]

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