Bob McCarty Writes

On Oct. 2, Catherine Bleish was one of a handful of speakers who revved up a crowd of 2,000 at the St. Charles (Mo.) Tea Party.  Ten days later, she found herself in jail in the South St. Louis city of Maplewood.
“I was standing in line outside,” the 25-year-old told me Monday afternoon during an [...]

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Some 200 patriotic citizens lined one side of Highway K early this afternoon at the intersection of Highways K & N in O’Fallon, Mo.  Their signs told the story of their passionate disdain for socialism, government-run health care and an out-of-control federal government.  Across the street, barely a dozen individuals carried signs in support of [...]

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The St. Charles Tea Party took place this evening, drawing nearly 2,000 freedom-loving patriots from miles around to Frontier Park along the banks of the Missouri River near the downtown area of the Show-Me State’s First Capitol city.

Organized by Show Me Patriots.org, I Heard the People Say.org and a number of local businesses, it took [...]

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UPDATE 10-2-09 11:43 p.m. Central: Saint Charles Tea Party Video

I don’t make it a practice to share much news about events in my local area, but I’m making an exception when it comes to the St. Charles (Mo.) Tea Party.  I’ll be attending the event Friday, Oct. 2, 4 to 7 p.m., at Frontier Park [...]

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I’m not what most would consider an art lover — far from it. Once in a while, however, I see something I really like. That was the case when I came across the work of Joseph Farmer at the Mosaics Arts Festival in St. Charles, Mo., along with my two middle school-age sons. [...]

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