Do We Need Obamacare To Cover “Pre-Existing Conditions?”

December 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
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Contrary to what some folks in Washington would have you believe, there is a way to help people with pre-existing conditions obtain health insurance without using Obamacare to do it. Our friends over at The Heritage Foundation, for example, suggest one approach that I found particularly interesting: establishing high-risk insurance pools in the states. Interestingly, as Heritage points out, 35 states already have these high-risk pools. They are specifically designed to cover folks with … [Read more...]

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Voter ID Machines Installed In All 75 Arkansas Counties

December 6, 2013 1 Comment
Face YOUR Vote-FINAL box

Secretary of State Mark Martin recently announced that the implementation of the state’s photo-ID system  is complete. The Secretary of State’s office provided Voter ID systems to each of Arkansas’s 75 counties, allowing each county clerk’s office to produce photo identification cards at no charge for voters who don't have them. “This project has put counties in compliance with the requirements of Act 595 of 2013. It also provides additional integrity to our electoral system,” Martin said. Act … [Read more...]

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So, Who Authorized Those Fat Raises For State Department Heads?

December 5, 2013 3 Comments
Mike Beebe can make it rain money -- we just have to say "yes."

I wrote last week about Senator Alan Clark’s discovery that 49 state agency heads have received substantial raises -- as much as $18,300 in some cases. Clark said he didn’t know who had authorized the raises. Now we know. Liberal bloggers -- for example, David Ramsey at the Arkansas Times -- were quick to dismiss Clark’s discovery as a non-scandal because, according to their investigations, Clark had actually authorized the raises himself because he voted for several of the appropriations bills … [Read more...]

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Who’s Paying For Those Pro-Robinson Renovation Brochures?

December 4, 2013 3 Comments
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A few weeks back, I explored whether or not Little Rock employees are violating Act 312 by distributing materials that recommend the renovation of the Robinson Center (which is to be determined by a bond election in Little Rock next week; early voting is underway now). Under the newly implemented law, it’s illegal “to use any office or room furnished at public expense to distribute any letters, circulars, or other campaign materials unless such office or room is regularly used by members of the … [Read more...]

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Who Are Arkansas’s Friends Of Freedom?

December 3, 2013 2 Comments
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Today at the Capitol, 23 state legislators were awarded “Friends of Freedom” awards from the Advance Arkansas Institute. These legislators represent the top tier of scorers on AAI’s newly released 2013 Freedom Scorecard, an index of over 100 bills that were debated in this year’s legislative session. (If you’d like a copy of the full report, send us a tax-deductible donation and we’ll ship one out to you.) So, who are the Friends of Freedom? In the House, the following representatives made the … [Read more...]

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The Scorecard. It’s Coming.

December 2, 2013 Leave a Comment
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Tomorrow is the big day you’ve all been waiting for -- the unveiling of the Advance Arkansas Institute’s latest Freedom Scorecard! AAI will hold a ceremony at the Capitol to unveil the new report and recognize our top-scoring legislators for their work for freedom. If you’d like to join us, swing by the Old Supreme Court room at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. This report will be the most thorough of its kind ever produced in Arkansas, scoring over 100 bills from this year’s legislative session on the … [Read more...]

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Jingle Bells, Townsell Tales, The Cabin Laid An Egg

December 1, 2013 9 Comments
A replica of Conway's Christmas tree (except ours doesn't have ornaments).

Apparently I upset some people with my story about Conway's new 54-foot, $130,000 Christmas tree: the local paper here in town, The Log Cabin Democrat, has not one but two stories in their Sunday edition today that take aim at my coverage of the con-tree-versy. For whatever reason, they decided to dedicate quite a bit of column space to attempt to debunk some of the claims about the purchase of the gargantuan tannenbaum  -- but strangely, they attempt to debunk claims that I never actually … [Read more...]

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Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

November 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
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No politics or policy today -- just thanksgiving. In that vein, enjoy President George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation from 1789: By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people … [Read more...]

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