While the KXAN television news video below paints a graphic portrait of the damage wrought by wildfires in the Texas Hill Country east of Austin during the past two weeks, it makes no mention of three blameworthy factors that might have played pivotal roles in reducing the size and scope of this red-hot disaster. The [...]
Wildfires Follow Grounding of Tankers, Budget Cuts (Update)
September 8th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: · Arson, Barack Obama, Bob McCarty, Federal Spending, Rick Perry, terrorists, texas, Wildfires
New Survey: Americans More Concerned Than Ever About Obama Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments
Americans are more concerned than ever that the ongoing Obama administration effort to close the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba will allow dangerous terrorists to go free, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-four percent of likely U.S. voters are now at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free [...]
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Labor Union Desperate to Save Phil Hare’s Seat
October 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments
If you saw the front page of the latest edition of QUAD CITIES LABOR NEWS, you probably noticed an article under the headline, WHAT’S WITH ALL THE BILLBOARDS? Unfortunately, the article beneath the headline fails to offer a truthful answer to the question and, in fact, stinks of desperation. The article begins with the following [...]
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I’m Stepping Away From Full-Time Blogging
June 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments
With the fourth anniversary of this blog’s birth less than five months away, I’m using this post to announce that I’m stepping away from full-time blogging at BobMcCarty.com. Why slow down after publishing nearly 4,000 posts? Several reasons exist, but I’ll limit myself to the most important one: I WANT TO FINISH WRITING MY FIRST [...]
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Does Hope Float in the Middle East?
June 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments
Is it possible that President Barack Obama’s signing of a presidential determination Jan. 27, 2009, resulted in direct support going to people aboard vessels in the Gaza-bound flotilla that has stirred up so much controversy in recent days? I think it is. According to this Feb. 4, 2009, entry in the Federal Register, President Obama [...]
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Surber: Obama Must Reconsider Closing GITMO
December 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
In a worth-reading post yesterday on his blog at the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, Don Surber wrote that President Barack Obama cannot ignore recent events involving terrorism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and that the former Illinois senator must reconsider his decision to move detainees (a.k.a., “terrorists, suspected terrorists and enemy combatants”) from Guantanamo Bay [...]
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E-mail Offers Details of Impeach Obama Campaign
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments
A friend forwarded an e-mail this morning that contained information I think you’ll find worth noting from Floyd Brown at the Policy Issues Institute via WorldNetDaily. The e-mail serves two functions: First, it invites people to join a movement to Impeach President Barack Obama; and Second, it asks people to donate funds to finance the [...]
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