Bob McCarty Writes

The St. Louis-area blog, Reboot Congress, published a video today that raises disturbing questions about Republican State Rep. Steve Tilley, the new speaker of the house in the Missouri House of Representatives.  It seems he’s aligned himself with State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, a state legislator from the city of St. Louis who walks arm in [...]

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Another reason why we don’t need a moratorium on offshore drilling:  nobody else is going to be taking risks during the next six months like BP did three months prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that left 11 dead and created one of the worst ecological disasters in [...]

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As many as 698,000 jobs could be lost if the health care reform plan (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) being pushed hard by liberal Democrats is passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama, according to a study released today that was the subject of a blogger conference call this morning. The executive summary for [...]

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President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address contained realizations of the economic crisis in which the country found itself, but it also contained several common-sense statements President Barack Obama would do well to incorporate into his political repertoire. Most noteworthy in the speech was the line below: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution [...]

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Though the U.S. House of Representatives passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (a.k.a., “SCHIP”) by a vote of 290 to 135, not everyone in Washington, D.C., is excited about the bill which gained Senate approval last week and is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama this afternoon.  Among them is [...]

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s recent proposal to include birth-control and abortion funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a.k.a., H.R. 1 and “The Stimulus Package”) prompted public outcry in many forms.  One example can be found in the form of “Retroactive Birth Control, an editorial cartoon (above) by Michael at [...]

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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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