Bob McCarty Writes

As recently as last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was one of a handful of members of Congress who asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate possible “duplication of effort and internal redundancies” involving agencies of the federal government.  With that fresh on my mind, I was struck by a troubling question when I saw the [...]

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It’s never good to see headlights facing your direction, in your lane, on the interstate, but that’s exactly what happened to me early this morning.  Now, I have a reason to be even more thankful this Thanksgiving week. Driving in the rain, I got my wife to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport at around 5:30 a.m.  [...]

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Need to burn off the Thanksgiving calories and, at the same time, stand up for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? If so, there are plenty of opportunities in the St. Louis area Saturday: The K-N-Patriots, whose efforts I’ve chronicled for several weeks now, will hold their weekly anti-socialism rally at the intersection of [...]

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In a day and age when elected officials in Washington, D.C., seem to be treating the American people more like turkeys than bosses, I offer the Thanksgiving Day cartoon above as representative of how many Americans feel on this special day. Though I’m not advocating violence against elected officials (at least, not yet), the thought [...]

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In the video below, courtesy of the folks at Hands Off My Health, a family experiences what it would be like after the government takes charge of the Thanksgiving meal (i.e., “No pie for you!”). If you hate the thought of Thanksgiving without pie as much as I do, then don’t sit on the sidelines [...]

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Published on the White House blog in advance of today’s pre-Thanksgiving Day ceremony during which President Barack Obama issued a presidential pardon for one lucky turkey, the “turkey” of a video below screams for parody treatment and/or, at a minimum, pithy commentary.

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It appears writer Eric Crawford was ahead of the journalistic pack with his article that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Black Friday — the one after Thanksgiving, not Christmas.  In Bailout Bowl, Presented By You and Me, he highlighted the many instances in which taxpayers — hence, “You and Me” in his headline — [...]

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