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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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 [...]

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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters this afternoon he was disappointed that funding would not come out of the already-approved $700 billion package aimed at helping the economy as a whole and that he was disappointed that no action would be taken today. Speaking on behalf of a bipartisan group of senators, Senator Levin said, [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood behind the podium this afternoon and told Americans that they were rejecting calls for the auto industry to opt for bankruptcy and, instead, giving automobile industry executives one more chance — until Dec. 2 — to submit a plan that [...]

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In a post published Aug. 15, I highlighted “news” about a supposedly-bipartisan energy plan hatched by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a “Group of 10″ U.S. senators. Less than 30 days later, my friends at the American Petroleum Institute tell me the group of senators has now grown to include 16 members.  Unfortunately, the [...]

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I used a headline to describe the address tonight by John McCain’s running mate to delegates at the Republican National Convention:  Sarah Palin Nails Speech at Republican Convention.  Below are “Sarah Palin’s Top 20 Jabs at the Democrats” from that speech: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that [...]

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Two weeks ago, the nation’s news media outlets broke “news” about a supposedly-bipartisan energy plan hatched by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and a “Group of 10″ U.S. senators.  Unfortunately, that plan falls far short of what is needed, according to Red Cavaney. Cavaney, president and chief executive officer of the American Petroleum Institute, outlined [...]

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