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‘Old Gray Lady’ on Wrong Side Gun of Control

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments

The New York Times appears to be at it again, publishing false information Sunday about gun crimes in the form of an article, The Virginia Tech Betrayal.  Fortunately, the folks at the National Rifle Association are able to correct the record and prove that the clowns at the “newspaper of record” are wrong. The first [...]

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Virginia Tech Officials Learned from Tragedy (Updated)

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Deadly violence has once again visited the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg.  Unlike events that took place 21 months ago, only one person — not 33 — died in the violence yesterday.  The murder weapon was a knife, not a gun.  And, if it’s possible to find one in such a tragedy, the [...]

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Trojans Win Rose, Hokies Win Orange, Fans Bored

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Though college football fans were treated to a back-to-back pair of dull bowl games, I was able to add one more win and one more loss to my predictions record for the bowl game season. In the first game, played in Pasadena, Calif., the #5 USC Trojans defeated the #8 Penn State Nittany Lions, 38-24, [...]

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Kansas Defeats Minnesota in Insight Bowl — Yawn

January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams.  I will, however, [...]

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College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered

December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]

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Students Want Concealed Carry on Campus

April 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments

On April 7, less than a year after it was formed, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus passed the 25,000-members mark and made note of the fact that approximately one out of every 755 college students in the United States is now a member of the organization. SCCC reached this milestone only days ahead of [...]

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Blogger Reflects on Coverage of Top 2007 Stories

December 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Associated Press published it’s Top 10 stories of 2007 today, so I decided to highlight Bob McCarty Writes posts related to those topics: 1. VIRGINIA TECH KILLINGS 2. MORTGAGE CRISIS 3. IRAQ WAR 4. OIL PRICES 5. CHINESE EXPORTS 6. GLOBAL WARMING 7. BRIDGE COLLAPSE 8. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 9. IMMIGRATION DEBATE 10. IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM

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