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BMW ‘Near Misses’ Latest Top 100 List

March 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Thanks to all of you for your continued support, helping this blog finish just out of the running — a “NEAR MISS” at #106 — on the latest Alexa Top 100 Conservative Web Sites list, published today.  Below are the ten conservative web sites atop the list: 1. Fox News 2. WSJ Opinion Journal 3. [...]

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Republicans Stop Anti-CIA Legislation

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) tried to pull a fast one by sneaking anti-CIA language into some legislation. Thankfully, according to the Washington Times, Republicans mounted a campaign against the provision introduced by McDermott and contained in the $50 billion classified intelligence budget that would ban degrading treatment of detainees and punish CIA agents involved in [...]

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BMW Named to Top 100 Conservative Sites List

February 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments

Only hours after ending the most successful month ever — more than 425,000 page views — at Bob McCarty Writes, I awoke to find this blog listed #99 on the list of Top 100 Conservative Web Sites.  Based on Alexa rankings, the list below was published at Death By a Thousand Papercuts: TOP 100 CONSERVATIVE [...]

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Missouri Health Care Freedom Hearings Set (Update)

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

The Missouri Senate Committee on Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight is set to hear testimony Thursday on a Senate joint resolution that would bring the proposed federal health care plan to a vote of Missouri’s citizens, according to Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield).  In a Nov. 21 interview captured in the video below, the [...]

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Terror, Travesty and Tales of Suppressed Evidence

January 24th, 2010 · 9 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: I waited to publish this piece until after the Army Clemency and Parole Board made public it’s decision concerning the case of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna.  Why?  Because I did not want to divert anyone’s attention from the 26-year-old Army officer’s case and what seems like overwhelming evidence to suggest, first, that Army [...]

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Everyone’s Picking Brown as Winner in Mass.

January 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In much the same manner as Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, predicted Jan. 15 that a win by Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race could boost the market, InTrade is offering it’s take on the race between Brown and his Democrat opponent, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley:  Brown (69.9) vs. Coakley [...]

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Inhofe Threatens ‘ClimateGate’ Investigation (Update)

November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

UPDATE #2 11/24/09 at 4:58 p.m. Central — In the video below, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) appears on Fox News Channel to announce he has sent out letters to officials with a number of government agencies as well as to scientists.  Those letters instruct those people to retain documents related to their research regarding climate [...]

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