Bob McCarty Writes

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 [...]

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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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On Friday the 13th, I made my fourth appearance on The Curtis Sliwa Show, a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that airs weeknights on ABC Radio Network flagship station 77 WABC in New York City and is carried on stations in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, among others. Host Curtis Sliwa and I discussed the [...]

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Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, released its 2008 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” yesterday.  In alphabetical order below, I offer abbreviated versions of the narratives about these politicians provided by Judicial Watch: Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY): Let’s start with the fact that Hillary Clinton is [...]

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Data released by the Employment Policies Institute shows that mandatory wage hikes cause increased job losses, particularly among vulnerable groups, according to a news release today. In Missouri, for example, yet another increase in the minimum wage rate becomes effective Jan. 1.  The 2009 hike to $7.05 marks the third straight year the wage has [...]

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