Bob McCarty Writes

It was clear to me during a phone call this morning that Pat Jones of the public affairs office at Fort Jackson, S.C., was a bit surprised to read media reports this morning in which Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) was quoted as saying that a group of translators had been cleared of any involvement in [...]

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Thanks to Rep. Joe Wilson, a post I published almost five months ago about the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (a.k.a., “Card Check”) is receiving a lot of page views tonight.  Why?  Because the South Carolina Republican was courageous enough to call President Barack Obama a liar on the floor of the U.S. House of [...]

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In a letter e-mailed to friends and supporters today, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a scathing retort about the bankruptcy filing by General Motors.  The text of that letter/e-mail appears below:

Dear Friend,
The bankruptcy filing of General Motors last week didn’t have to be this way.
GM could have – and as many of us argued [...]

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Editor’s Note: Below is the text of an e-mail message I received from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) at 1:43 p.m. Central today.  I opt to share it with you in light of the president’s recent push to launch a health care reform effort.

May 14, 2009

Dear Friend,

It is now clear that Congress and the president’s top [...]

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In a recent editorial published in the Aiken (S.C.) Standard, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) explains what’s wrong with efforts to do away with the use of secret ballots in elections that will decide whether or not a workplace is unionized.  Excerpts of that editorial appear below:

Each individual would be required to publicly declare their candidate [...]

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