Bob McCarty Writes

This morning, I attended a Veterans Day assembly at the middle school not far from St. Louis where two of my three sons are students.  One of about two-dozen veterans in attendance, I did not expect to feel the emotions I felt today.
Like most school assemblies of this nature, it featured the school band playing [...]

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For more than two hours every Saturday afternoon since April, an average of 200 anti-socialism protesters have carried signs and waved at passing motorists at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo. Among them are several veterans who’ve served their country during peacetime and war.  From World War II and Korea to [...]

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Veteran national security reporter George C. Wilson warns in a Congress Daily article today that “voices from the grave make me fear that President Obama and Congress are unwittingly setting up the American military for another Vietnam-type failure in Afghanistan.”  Among the “voices” cited in the piece are current and former flag and general officers [...]

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While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included.
The missing detail in the piece by Laurie Kellman was the one that would have explained how and where former heavyweight [...]

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Before Americans pass post-debate judgment on Sarah Palin tomorrow night, I suggest they vaccinate themselves from “The Stockdale Syndrome,” a disease first introduced into the political arena by liberal members of the news media in 1992.  That vaccination is available in the form of an opinion piece, Debates Don’t Always Reveal Character, published in The [...]

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