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Arkansas Blog: How can you lose?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:50:31 -0500

By commenting on this open line?

Which reminds me: The Arkansas Lottery rolls out a new "draw" game Monday, Cash 3. Too complicated for me.

ARRA News Service: Today in Washington D. C. - Dec 11, 2009

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:44:01 -0500

Yesterday the House passed along party lines the $447 billion omnibus spending measure 221 to 202, with 28 Democrats joining all 174 Republicans present in opposing it. Unfortunately, Glen Beck on his shows today said the Republicans supported this bill. They did NOT. Again ALL House Republicans and 20 Democrats [...]

Arkansas Blog: Legislators target double-dipping

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:10:14 -0500

A legislative committee voted today to expand its look at double-dipping by public employees -- drawing both retirement and regular pay.

In many cases, the practice was authorized by law. But at least seven elected county officials apparently didn't follow the required course of fully retiring before then retaking jobs' [...]

ARRA News Service: Special Events for Patriots in Arkansas This Week

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:58:09 -0500

Saturday, December 12, at 12 Noon:
See Michelle Malkin live at the Doubletree Ballroom in Little Rock tomorrow. Please go to www.americansforprosperity.org/Arkansas and register so that we can gauge the size of room we need.

Tuesday, December 15, at 12 Noon:
Emergency rally to stop government-run health [...]

Blake's Think Tank: Welcome Back, David Kinkade

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:54:13 -0500

I’m glad David Kinkade of the venerable Arkansas Project has decided to re-engage with the Arkansas blogosphere. His take on the Arkansas GOP “cult” issue is spot on. I’m not going to re-hash it here. Go to his blog and read the details.

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Under the Dome: Live blogging a legislative blogging seminar

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1
I'm here posting and talking live from the NCSL Fall Forum here in San Diego, where we're discussing how technology can be used for the benefit of legislators and other government officials. Unlike other similar programs I've done, just about everyone here in the audience has some sort of Internet' [...]

Arkansas Blog: The year of the gun

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:01:24 -0500

-- From conservapedia.com

A survey story looks at the nationwide push this year by the NRA to lift gun restrictions in cities and states. Pistols in pews haven't made it to Arkansas yet, for example, but the fight isn't over.

The subject happened to be on my mind [...]

Arkansas Blog: 10-digit dialing coming to 870 area

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:39:20 -0500

The state Public Service Commission announced today that it will adopt an "overlay" plan to cope with the coming end of available telephone numbers in the 870 area code in Arkansas.

This means, rather than carving out a new area code, the 870 code will stay the same, but theree [...]

The Arkansas Project: Amateur Hour for Arkansas GOP

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:51:33 -0500

Number of comments: 9

It’s amateur hour for the Republican Party of Arkansas, which has cranked up their moral dudgeon to “high” in response to a throw-away comment from the state Democrats’ executive director in a recent news story.

Here’s the background: On Tuesday, former GOP Rep. Michael Lamoureux won a special election [...]

Arkansas Blog: House hires KATV reporter

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:35:41 -0500

KATV's Amanda Manatt has been hired as the new communications officer for the House of Representatives. You may recall that Stephen Steed was fired from the job a few months back and a consultant, Craig Douglass, was brought in to devise a cutting-age communications strategy for the' [...]

Arkansas Blog: The 19th Duggar

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:25:28 -0500

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 19th child today. She's Josie Brooklyn, according to a Twitter from Jon Woods. The baby was delivered more than three months early at UAMS by emergency C-section because of Mama Duggar's health complications.

Today's THV provides news release from TLC, the cable channel where a reality show' [...]

Arkansas Blog: Pay caps for bailout execs

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:19:38 -0500

The Obama administration has announced cash pay caps for executives of company's that benefitted from government bailouts. There are some exceptions.

This ought to be generally popular, though some will bridle at government controls on pay. It's not far from caps on bailout beneficiaries to, say, pay limits on other [...]

Arkansas Tonight: Duggars welcome Josie Brooklyn Duggar to family

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:19:00 -0500

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We reported previously that Michelle Duggar was airlifted to UAMS in Little Rock after suffering from gallstones. We can now confirm a report originally made by TMZ.com that Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar are new parents to a baby girl, Josie [...]

Under the Dome: KATV's Manatt to direct House Communications Office

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:15:00 -0500

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Amanda Manatt, an on-air general assignment reporter for the news department of Little Rock television station KATV, has been named Communications Officer of the Arkansas House. Manatt is a 2004 Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Fulbright Honors College of Arts and Sciences [...]

Blake's Think Tank: Democratic Party of Arkansas Airs “Thank You, Sen. Lincoln” Ad

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:43:05 -0500

Max Brantley of The Arkansas Times doesn’t much care for the ad. On the Times‘ blog he writes,

This advertising is nothing but thinly veiled response advertising to Republican-aligned attack ads. It is not a direct campaign expenditure under the law, but it is so closely similar to that purpose as [...]

Arkansas Blog: Incumbent protection -- Dem version

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:56:41 -0500

The Arkansas Democratic Party announces that it has purchased air time to thank Sen. Blanche Lincoln for her superb work on health legislation. Details on jump.

This mirrors, in a fashion, outsider Republican complaints about Republican Party official support for select congressional candidates. But it may be worse.

There are many [...]

The Tolbert Report: Video: Labor Unions Issue Attack Ad on Gilbert Baker

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:37:58 -0500

Number of comments: 5

For some reason, a group called Citizens for Strength and Security funded primarily by labor unions have begun running an ad attacking Republican Senate candidate Gilbert Baker for not being fiscally conservative enough. The ad accuses him of bring in $53 million in pork barrel spending as a state senator.

“The [...]

The Tolbert Report: DPA Director Compares Republican Legislators to a “Cult”

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:17:08 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Mariah Hatta, executive director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, was interviewed yesterday by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on the newly elected State Senator Michael Lamoureux from Russellville. In it, Hatta said she hoped that Lamoureux will “avoid the hyper-partisanship cult of Republican legislators, mostly in the [...]

Under the Dome: National Conference of State Legislatures Fall Forum

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:11:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1
I'm here at the NCSL Fall Forum in San Diego getting ready for a presentation on legislative technology and blogging. The legislative effectiveness committee also meets today, which is chaired by Robbie Wills, and I serve as vice chair. I'm also a member of the Sentencing and [...]

Arkansas Blog: The bottom line

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:30:35 -0500

The Democrat-Gazette completed a six-part series today with the delayed lead of the story:

A second test of remains at the state Crime Lab showed Nov. 30 that they are those of Carmeletta Green, who'd been missing since her mother left her at their Little Rock home to work in 1982. The' [...]

Arkansas Blog: Pulaski school woes

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:19:38 -0500

The support staff union at the Pulaski County School District decided last night not to strike today. But I wonder if talk of the possibility earlier will depress attendance today. It's Friday, after all.

The support staff and teachers' unions lost their status as bargaining agents on a heated Board vote' [...]

Arkansas Blog: The plight of immigrant students

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:06:06 -0500

This is a story with resonance in Arkansas, where a proud band of public officials have worked to provide education to children of illegal immigrants against the tide of anti-immigrant sentiment.

It's about growing activism among undocumented students with long lives and academic achievement in the U.S. They are becoming more [...]

Arkansas Blog: Friends on the bench

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:00:11 -0500

A Florida ethics panel has opined that it creates the appearance of conflict of interest when a judge "friends" a lawyer on a Facebook account. It advises against it.

Hypersensitive? Silly? Should judges have Facebook accounts? Know any who do?

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Arkansas Blog: Listen to 'Christian' radio?

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:57:26 -0500

If not, you've been missing some ads blistering Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Sometimes, you are known by your enemies.' [...]

Arkansas Blog: Missing link

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:50:20 -0500

Stephens Media's account of Stanley Reed's entry into the U.S. Senate race as a newly minted Republican doesn't include mention of his campaign manager, David Sanders, (former?) columnist for Stephens Media who wrote warmly of Reed's chances in a column yesterday.

UPDATE: I'm informed that earlier versions of the Reed' [...]

Arkansas Watch: Honest Currency Essential to Private Property Rights

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:10:00 -0500

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Having an honest currency is essential to property rights. If the government and their banker friends have a fiat currency, they can simply print up as much as they want and buy out anyone they please.You may argue that without an abuse of eminent domain laws the property owner could [...]

Blake's Think Tank: Obama’s Nobel Lecture

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:51:10 -0500

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Blake's Think Tank: Stanley Reed to Challenge for US Senate Seat

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:09:22 -0500

Marianna farmer and Arkansas Farm Bureau president Stanley Reed will run for the US Senate in the Republican Party primary. Mr. Reed filed papers with the Federal Election Commission yesterday. Roby Brock of Talk Business spoke to Mr. Reed who said, “I’m in the race.”

David Sanders, a columnist for [...]

Arkansas Tonight: Curtis Coleman's speech to the RPA plus Stanley Reed jumps into the crowded GOP field of Senate candidates

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:01:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

Curtis Coleman, a Republican candidate for US Senate and the second place winner in his party's straw poll this past weekend, made a speech at the party with a line that I think can really rally state conservatives to his campaign:...in the [...]

Lynch at Large: Friday Arkansas news briefs

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:41 -0500

Sen. Blanche Lincoln says that, as talks of a compromise on health care legislation move forward, the Senate is “steering more toward private insurance and less toward public insurance.” Former Farm Bureau President Stanley Reed has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to form a campaign committee to run against [...]

ARRA News Service: DPA Calls Arkansas Republican Legislators a Partisan Cult - RPA Responds

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:47:14 -0500

When discussing Republican Michael Lamoureux’s State Senate win, Democrat Party of Arkansas Executive Director Mariah Hatta let her leftist attitude show by having the audacity to call Republican Legislators a partisan ‘cult’ who want to see Little Rock be more like Washington.

Ms. Hatta was using a move [...]

Lynch at Large: Iron Chef America Goes to the White House – Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:26:05 -0500

Bobby Harrison and I used to watch the original Iron Chef. The American version is also a hoot. I miss Bobby this time of year. He died in December. (OK, that is not a very merry thought, but so be it.) Iron Chef America Goes to the White House – Washington [...]

Arkansas Watch: Why Leaderless Tea Parties are Beating the GOP

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:48:00 -0500

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I am not sure they are, but the writer of this article from The American Thinker believes so and I thought it was an interesting take.One of many points from the piece..."The 10th Amendment, which has been collecting dust in the closet, is a natural resource for the "leaderless" Tea" [...]

Arkansas Tonight: ARKANSAS TONIGHT EXCLUSIVE: Drew Pritt quitting US Senate race, instead running for lieutenant governor

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:45:00 -0500

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Drew Pritt, who has up to this point been running for the Democratic nomination for US Senate, will be dropping out of the race, Arkansas Tonight has confirmed. Instead of running for the seat currently held by fellow Democrat Blanche Lincoln, we [...]

Lynch at Large: AMTRAK Development on Sunset/Eagle route

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:31:16 -0500

This item was psoted by Gene Poon, a professional journalist of unimpeachable reputation, on a rail passenger discussion group. It is a big of long awaited news. The Amtrak Board of Directors has authorized negotiations with Union Pacific for daily Amtrak service on the Los Angeles-New Orleans Sunset Route. source: Robert Manning Director, Rail Passenger [...]

ARRA News Service: Can Republicans Retake the Senate in 2010?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:23:46 -0500

A column appears in today's Wall Street Journal by Karl Rove. It highlights the bright prospects for Senate Republicans in 2010. Rob Jesmer, NRSC Executive Director responded today stating "GOP recruitment of well-qualified candidates continues to be strong while Democrats continue to push their deeply unpopular, ultra-liberal agenda. No wonder" [...]

ARRA News Service: Marriage Penalty Hidden in Health Care Reform

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:59:38 -0500

by Kim Trobee, CitizenLink: Higher premiums may discourage people from getting married.

A closer look at premium payments in both the House and Senate health care bills shows higher premiums that might discourage couples tying the knot.
For instance, in the House version, an unmarried couple [...]

ARRA News Service: The Deals on the Omnibus Go Round and Round...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:47:05 -0500

Tony Perkins, FRC Washington Update: As the Senate tosses the abortion question aside, the House is quietly answering it in another major piece of appropriations legislation: the 2010 Omnibus. While Americans are distracted with the business of health care, the House-Senate conference committee agreed to a [...]

ARRA News Service: Global Temperatures

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:37:41 -0500

by Kerby Anderson, Point of View: We have heard lots of discussion these last few weeks about temperature data that was manipulated in order to provide evidence for man-made global warming. But it would be wise to revisit a previous discussion about temperature data that was misinterpreted. [...]

ARRA News Service: Break The Cycle - Turn the Tide (Prison Fellowship)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:25:55 -0500

I hope all readers will watch and rate this video on YouTube. I posted the
Advance Release of video by Prison Fellowship. As a conservative and a Christian, I believe in and support this cause. Join me! Promote this video in your various social networks, websites and blogs. May [...]