Bob McCarty Writes

The issue of TIME scheduled to hit newsstands Friday is described in a news release today as the “most anticipated issue of the year.”  Why?  Because it features Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the cover as the magazine’s “2009 Person of the Year.”
Come again?
Why on earth would the folks at TIME select Bernanke — [...]

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Believe you me, it’s a rare occasion when I agree with the folks at TIME.  Today, however, is one of those occasions.  The lead paragraph of their article, Obama’s Nobel: Another Slap at George W. Bush, sums up accurately the reason why the current occupant of the Oval Office won a once-prestigious award despite having [...]

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“To those who say 10 years is not enough time, I respectfully ask them to consider what the world’s scientists are telling us about the risks we face if we don’t act in 10 years.” — Al Gore
The Al Gore quote above appeared in a Bryan Walsh effort, Gore’s Bold Plan to Save the Planet, [...]

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If you haven’t been there before, I recommend you visit and bookmark NowPublic.com, where this blogger (a.k.a., “BMCWrites”) is the site’s “Featured Member” today.
NowPublic is a Vancouver-based participatory news network — think citizen journalism — that mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company [...]

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During the late 1980s, this former Air Force officer spent more than three years on Okinawa, a Japanese island which served as home to tens of thousands of United States Marines. During those years, I grew to respect the hard work, dedication and sacrifice that goes into being a Marine. Today, I feel [...]

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