by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Media elites and pointy-headed leftwing intellectuals are having spasms this morning over Sarah Palin. What set them off this time? A liberal blogger discovered that Gov. Palin had written some “cheat” notes on her hand to use during her speech at the [...] The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the constitutionality of Arkansas's lethal injection procedure. Here's the opinion.
It says that the injection protocol "does not subject inmates to a substantial risk of serious harm." Unless you count death, of course.
More seriously, the case summary says the court [...]
A soldier in Washington is accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter for failure to know her ABCs.
Dick Cheney would call it an advanced enhanced educational technique.
[...]The state Board of Education didn't let a little snow deter it today from important business.
It rejected -- there wasn't a single aye vote -- the proposal that the Weiner and Delight school districts, which are 200 miles apart, be allowed to consolidate administratively to avoid being combined with nearby [...]
A temporary solution has been found to stop the flow of sewage from Marble Falls into a tributary of the Buffalo River. This news was reported Friday.
Today, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln issued a news release taking credit. She's a real green, see.
Sewage has been flowing since January 2009. In [...]
So help me.
Normally we go to press Tuesday. We're trying to move the paper out one day early -- today -- for fear of worse road conditions tomorrow. At some point this afternoon, we're going to have to get our crew home to points west in Little Rock -- Hillcrest, [...]
The snow apparently lent some urgency to the opening day of the legislature's first budget session. Gov. Beebe spoke briefly and, according to Rep. Steve Harrelson, emphasized concerns about Medicaid expenses.
Harrelson also said the great hubbub about raising campaign cash during the session was to be settled by the [...]
-- Brian Chilson photo
About the snow. It seems to be at variance with the forecast, doesn't it?
Anyway.
There's a CAT bus stuck at this minute, 12:01 p.m., on Third Street, unable to make the hill eastbound from Victory Street (Cotham's). You have been warned.
' [...]
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan is touted as one of the party's great thinkers. You betcha he is. And boy does he have a budget plan.
He would cut Social Security and Medicare and privatize them, bringing the wonders of private insurance to one of the most successful retirement/health care programs [...]
Former Congressman Asa Hutchinson put out word today that he will not be running for Congress. The Thrid Congressional District seat just opened up with the announcement from Rep. John Boozman that he will run for the U.S. Senate. (full statement on the jump)
“Five years ago, [...]
John Adams, an assistant Arkansas attorney general and a former business and tax attorney at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the second congressional district today.
This makes four announced Democratic candidates for the race: House speaker Robbie Wills, state Sen. [...]
I sat down with Princella Smith this weekend when she was in Little Rock to discuss her consideration of a run for Congress as a Republican in the First Congressional District. The race is now for an open seat after incumbent Rep. Marion Berry announced that he will not [...]
State Rep. Keith Ingram, considered to be a force in the 1st congressional district race, sent an e-mail to supporters yesterday indicating that he will not seek the seat being vacated by Rep. Marion Berry. Mr. Ingram is a Democrat.
This leaves former state Sen. Tim Wooldridge and Chad Causey as [...]
The New York Times reports that Sen. Blanche Lincoln will soon introduce federal legislation to ban candy and sugared soft drinks from school vending machines to combat childhood obesity.
Kids won't like it. School officials who dote on the revenue won't like it. Article says Republican support is uncertain.
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Under the state's Inclement Weather Policy, State operations in the Little Rock area will be delayed two hours Monday morning due to snow accumulations in parts of Central Arkansas. State Agency directors may authorize additional delays for employees who live in areas that have become especially treacherous. [...] Republican Steve Womack will delay his planned announcement for Third District today on account of the snow .... Democrat John Adams has started a Facebook page for a Second District candidacy ... Democrat Tim Wooldridge has filed federal paperwork for his First District candidacy. ... Democrat David Whitaker, who [...]
No NLR meeting Monday
