Bob McCarty Writes

Need a laugh?  Click on the image at right to visit Iowa Hawk’s blog post and see where President Barack Obama is driving his liberal Democrat friends (left to right): Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

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In a post yesterday, I pointed out the fact that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate seem focused on doing everything they can to oppose energy independence.  Fortunately, the folks in this country’s oil and natural gas industry are not following their lead.  Instead, they’re setting records for [...]

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Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation that will further hinder our nation’s ability to become energy independent (i.e., depend less upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas) is one step closer to becoming law.
There are at least a couple of provisions — and perhaps more — in the just-passed Omnibus Public [...]

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The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Secretary of State Jesse White does not need to acknowledge via his signature the letter Gov. Rod Blagojevich used to appoint Roland Burris to the represent the Land of Lincoln in the U.S. Senate.
Delivered by Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier, the ruling in Burris v. White appears to give [...]

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Dear President Bush,
The massive fires in Southern California are no doubt challenging fire, health and law enforcement officials beyond any worst-case scenario anyone could have imagined. Your prompt decision to issue federal disaster declarations was commendable, but it didn’t go far enough.
Now is the time for you to declare the offices of Senate Majority Leader [...]

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