Bob McCarty Writes

Dear Reader: Whether you’re visiting Bob McCarty Writes for the first time or consider yourself a “regular,” I appreciate your patronage. For the first time in since this blog launched in October 2006, I’m issuing an URGENT APPEAL, asking readers like you to make a contribution to sustain this site.  Lucky for you, several support [...]

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Almost a week ago, I published post in which I announced the coining of a new term, EARMARX. Simple to understand, it couples the word used to describe wasteful federal government spending (i.e., “earmarks”) with the last name of a person who will forever be associated with socialism (i.e., “Marx”): EARMARKS + SOCIALISM = EARMARX [...]

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Hope seems to be fleeting while enduring the landslide of bad news that has accompanied the first six weeks of President Barack Obama’s administration, but one can start saving his change in coin boxes from Barack Obama’s Seven Mystery States Coin Collection, inspired by the new president’s campaign trail visits to 57 states. Today, The [...]

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An Iowa State trooper who was investigated after it was shown that he forwarded an e-mail showing mugshots of people wearing Barack Obama t-shirts has been suspended for 30 days, according to a report from KETV 7 in Omaha: Sgt. Rodney Hicok was at home and off-duty when he forwarded the e-mails, said an official [...]

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Get ‘em while they’re hot folks!  After I publish this post, I’ll be removing Barack Obama-related merchandise items from the front page of this blog. Why?  Because, regardless of whether or not I agree with the man holding the office of the president of the United States and despite the difficulty of such a stand [...]

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For the third month in a row, Bob McCarty Writes set new records in every area of blog traffic during the month of October.  Among the records set were the following: The number of unique visitors (94,671) nearly doubled last month’s total (50,895); Same goes for the number of total visits (121,495) versus the previous [...]

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It’s a busy hurricane season already:  Gustav just passed, and three more storms — Hanna, Ike and Josephine — are on their way.  As a result, there’s no better time than today to forget about stars and Name a Storm After Someone You Love! Rather than offer you a gift package that involves selecting a [...]

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