Bob McCarty Writes

The world will probably never read or hear anything about it, but I predict someone on the Secret Service advance team that helped map out details of President Barack Obama’s trip to Ireland will — if it hasn’t already happened — be fired soon.  Watch the video below, and you’ll know why. Paying attention to [...]

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Amidst growing inflation fears, a new $1,000 note, the highest value denomination of U.S. currency to enter general circulation, will make its debut April 21 during a ceremony at the Department of the Treasury’s Cash Room, according to a news release today from the Department of the Treasury. The unveiling of the $1,000 note is [...]

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I just heard from an individual with sources inside St. Charles (Mo.) High School that Secret Service agents were “all over” the grounds of the school today in advance of a reported visit to the school Wednesday by President Barack Obama. What’s the purpose of his visit to this school in this heavily-Republican county?  What [...]

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If Barack Obama can’t be trusted to safeguard information about his own Secret Service agents, can he be trusted with vital national security secrets? I ask the question above after observing the president-elect engaging in post-news conference “happy talk” (i.e., non-political banter) with members of the Washington press corps this morning. After bringing up the [...]

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Many on the left want to compare Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan (a.k.a., “The Great Communicator).  In reality,  this year’s Democratic Party presidential nominee is making a name for himself as “The Great Exaggerator.” Newsweek reports that, during the last presidential debate, Obama exaggerated the angry outbursts again him at McCain-Palin campaign rallies, citing reports [...]

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Today, I recognized an instance of life imitating art in my corner of the world and thought it worth sharing with a world engaged in a Global War on Terror. I was one-third of the way through ACT OF TREASON, the latest terror-action novel by Vince Flynn, when I came across a BBC News article [...]

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We learned today that a bipartisan Congressional committee has authorized, for undisclosed reasons, Secret Service protection for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). It stands as the earliest such authorization in U.S. history. Here’s what this news means from a purely partisan political angle: Senator Obama is costing the American taxpayer more than his counterparts already — [...]

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