Bob McCarty Writes

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Robert L. Howard, the only American soldier ever nominated for the award three times for three separate actions, died today in Waco, Texas, at the age of 70. Below is the citation describing the events of Dec. 30, 1968, that earned then-Sergeant First Class Howard the nation’s highest military honor [...]

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The “Bob Hope Christmas Special” from 1967, captured in the video above, reminds me of the many December evenings I spent during my 1960s childhood, watching the late legend of an actor-comedian and a cast of popular figures — including his orchestra, Les Brown and his Band of Renown — entertain the troops during the [...]

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Barry Ritholtz, author of the soon-to-be-published book, “Bailout Nation,” might have summed up the nation’s financial crisis and subsequent government bailout efforts best when he wrote, “Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain.” In a post published yesterday on his blog, The Big Picture, Ritholtz reveals research findings that show the government’s $7.75 trillion in [...]

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A controversial photo (right) that captured Barack Obama sitting alone in a room, barren except for a framed photo of champion boxer Muhammad Ali upon the wall behind him, has been pulled from the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s web site. In a post on this blog 11 months ago, I described the photo this way: [...]

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Writer Paul Bedard published nearly a dozen posts today at the U.S. News & World Report Washington Whispers blog. Two of them dealt with photos and film footage of the place where John McCain spent five years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. Before the 2008 presidential race is over, those two should provide [...]

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In a post at Mike Anderson’s StLMedia.net yesterday, Mike offered some worthwhile suggestions for his colleagues in the on-air radio business. Under the headline, Two holiday weekends a year really catch my attention…, he wrote: One is Memorial Day, coming up this weekend, when we remember our family and friends who have given their lives [...]

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I happened to be flipping through the channels this afternoon and saw a program of patriotic songs was airing on Country Music Television. One of the program’s featured songs, Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of Me, had been a giant hit for Merle Haggard during the Vietnam War. Today, despite being nearly 40 years old, [...]

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