Bob McCarty Writes

For several hours Thursday afternoon, Americans were riveted to their television sets, having been told that a 6-year-old boy might be inside an accidentally-launched homemade balloon as it soared out of control across the skies of Colorado.  Today, “news” of another runaway balloon spotted in the skies above Washington, D.C., is attracting much less concern.  [...]

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News that a Washington, D.C., television station, WTTG, is cutting costs by teaching its anchors to operate their own teleprompters prompts me to wonder if such an initiative will spread across town.
President Barack Obama, arguably the most famous teleprompter-dependent person in history, follow the station’s lead and learn to operate the White House teleprompter on [...]

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Because we can no longer count on members of the mainstream news media to tell the real story about today’s Tea Party in Washington, D.C., we must turn to those from within the Take-Back-America Movement — people like El Marco.  Above and below are some of the excellent photos he shot on scene.  Click to [...]

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Believe it or not, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and others are holding a “Texting While Driving” summit in the nation’s capitol this week.  Apparently, the politicians in Washington, D.C., have nothing better to do than worry about the texting, an issue which pales in importance to matters such as putting the federal government in charge [...]

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The Washington Times reported Friday that, while publicly identifying with the nation’s have-nots, the Obama administration has been cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes.  As My Personal Litmus points out so well in his editorial cartoon above, such “social hobknobbery” doesn’t seem to jive with President Barack Obama’s social justice, class warfare agenda. [...]

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