Bob McCarty Writes

A description of a recent program produced by the supposedly-independent folks at Democracy Now! shows exactly how desperate the left appears to be. In short, they’ve used Barack Obama’s recent poor showing at a Pennsylvania bowling alley (he bowled a “37″) as “fertilizer” for turning victimhood into a political cash crop: While jokes are being [...]

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(SAINT LOUIS) — This morning, this blogger visited two truck stops in the St. Louis area in an effort to follow up on two earlier posts and try to determine firsthand whether many independent owner-operators and professional truck drivers seems to be participating in a shutdown to protest high fuel costs and other factors making [...]

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While political pundits discussed the outcome of the Democrat Presidential Primary in South Carolina on the news channels, I was “forced” by my wife to watch the Miss America pageant on TLC. Little did I know the pageant’s earliest elimination round would produce an opportunity for Jesse Jackson to cry “Racism!” That opportunity came soon [...]

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On this day of the South Carolina Presidential Primary and Nevada Presidential Caucus, I owe a hat tip to Russ Vaughan for his poem, Electicle Dysfuntion, published over at American Thinker today. I felt compelled to share it with my readers today. It begins this way: It’s abundantly clear and I charge without fear Nor [...]

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While visiting the Fox News web site to learn more about tonight’s roundtable discussion involving five of the seven major Republican presidential candidates, I discovered the folks at Fox are inviting people to submit questions for the GOP candidates ahead of their debate Thursday in Myrtle Beach, S.C. As a means of following up on [...]

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Rudy Giuliani checked himself into a St. Louis hospital last night after complaining of flu-like symptoms, according to an AP report. I, for one, suspect the Republican presidential candidate will attempt to take advantage of his opportune illness — genuine or concocted — to convey the image of a presidential candidate who knows what it’s [...]

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Much of the political world’s attention in recent days has been focused upon Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama and how he might benefit from the so-called “Oprah Effect.” Conversely, little attention has been paid to the impact of the “Okra Effect” — that is, until now. During the last weekend of September, Republican presidential candidates [...]

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