Posted in Authors, Military, Politics, Terrorism on May 28th, 2009
By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes The cartoon above captures perfectly the best nuclear weapons options available to Iran and North Korea as both seek to become nuclear powers. [Hat tip: David Donar at Political Graffiti]
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By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes Jerome Ersland, a 57-year-old Oklahoma City pharmacist, is in court today, facing first-degree murder charges for his role in the May 19 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker. The video above shows how things went down: Parker and an accomplice entered Reliable Discount Pharmacy while brandishing handguns and wearing [...]
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Posted in Authors, Military, Politics, Terrorism on May 28th, 2009
By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes Should Japan replace the “secret weapon” that has protected the East Asian nation for more than 60 years with nuclear weapons? That’s the question many people are asking in the wake of North Korea detonating a nuclear weapon and firing missiles earlier this week. In the video above, Charles [...]
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Posted in Authors, Financial, Politics on May 28th, 2009
By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes “We can’t rest on our laurels, because we’ve got a lot of work to do.” President Barack Obama was only half-right when, according to Reuters, he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California. Why? Because, as evidenced by the post-stimulus unemployment [...]
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Posted in Authors, Financial, Politics, Taxation on May 28th, 2009
By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will hit consumers of petroleum fuels especially hard by dramatically increasing the costs of goods and services as noted in the graphic above, according to two groups closely following the legislation. In a three-page document (pdf) forwarded to me early this afternoon, American Petroleum Institute [...]
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Posted in Authors, Financial, Politics on May 28th, 2009
By: Bob McCarty Bob McCarty Writes I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on television, but it strikes me that leaders of the Amazon Defense Coalition may have violated terms of the Logan Act as they cozied up to leaders of the Ecuadoran government in zealous pursuit of a $27 billion judgment against [...]
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By: Nancy Morgan RightBias.com The elected representatives of ‘we the people’ were hard at work last week on our behalf. The new Obama administration churned out proposals and legislation on a variety of fronts including the environment, the economy, and the (former) war on terror. In response to the Federal Reserve’s report of an increasingly [...]
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