Well, I Guess It’s Better Than Naming A Nuclear Waste Dump After Him

January 29, 2013
No, not that Arnold.

I know the legislature is in session so everyone is down in the dumps, nervously hanging on to your guns and pocketbooks. Plus it’s like 85 degrees outside and that’s just weird. But, have no fear, I bring good tidings! Congressman Tim Griffin (AR-02) has proposed a new bill that would rename the bankruptcy courthouse in Little Rock after a conservative hero! H.R. 388 would rename the building the “Morris Sheppard Arnold United States Courthouse” in honor of, you guessed it, Morris … [Read more...]

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President Reagan’s 1986 Independence Day Address

July 4, 2012

Remember when presidents talked like this? … [Read more...]

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Forest Fracas: Just What DOES It Take To Lose Your Job In the Beebe Administration?

January 5, 2012
Burned: John Shannon and the Arkansas Forest Fracas

 Arkansas Forestry Commission chief John Shannon is feeling the heat now that his agency is some $4 million in the hole—and Gov. Mike Beebe's asking lawmakers for an extra $2.7 million to clean things up at the gravely mismanaged agency. Reports the Arkansas News Bureau's John Lyon: Forestry Commission Director John Shannon and Tim Leathers, deputy director of the state Department of Finance and Administration, told a legislative panel that the governor plans to ask for about $2.7 million … [Read more...]

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Gun Crazy: NYT Story on Concealed Carry Permits Misfires Badly

December 28, 2011
NYT story on concealed carry permits misfires

"Gun Permit Holders Commit Crimes"!! That is the breathless headline over at the Arkansas Times, where Max Brantley points to a New York Times review of  concealed carry permit holders in North Carolina that found "more than 2,400 permit holders were convicted of felonies or misdemeanors" over five years. Golly, 2,400 sounds like a whole bunch. Say, how many of these gun permit holders are there in North Carolina, anyway? Seems like we should get some sense of the statistical scope of this … [Read more...]

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Government Office Building’s Solar Array Is A Half-Million Dollar Metaphor For Failure

December 19, 2011
Solar panels and pipe dreams

Is there a more perfect metaphor for the dead-end pipe-dream thinking of "green jobs" spending than the solar panel array, purchased with $550,000 of federal economic stimulus funds, outside the renovated Dillards building on West Capitol?* What was once a corporate headquarters has been repurposed as an environmentally friendly office building for state agencies.The building opened  in 2010, and touted with great fanfare as a monument to green construction and 21st century … [Read more...]

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Taking the REINS: Getting a Handle on Runaway Government Regulations

December 9, 2011
REINS Act wordcloud

I should have noted this a couple of days ago, but praise is due to the U.S. House of Representatives for this week's passage of the REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act to bring greater accountability to federal government regulations. Full story here.  (The REINS Act: It "REINS" in the regulatory process! Get it? Huh? HUH? GET IT?! Ugh, what a tortured acronym.) Credit where due: Rep. Tim Griffin, Republican of Arkansas' Second District, is a co-sponsor of the … [Read more...]

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Doing Our Part: How States Can Shut Down Obamacare

December 8, 2011

Last week we saw the not-at-all lamented demise of the Arkansas health insurance exchange. Following, we were treated to a spasm of recrimination from various quarters on the Arkansas left, accusing those who opposed the exchange of having doomed the Natural State to a future of grim slavery under the heavy boot-heel of a federally-run exchange. But is that true? Will the feds, in fact, be running the Arkansas health benefits exchange? Not so fast! The short (6 minute) interview at the … [Read more...]

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Tanning Industry Burned by Obamacare Tax! (Updated!)

December 6, 2011
Tanning industry burned by Obamacare tax!

Though the Arkansas health insurance benefits exchange has been declared DOA, we must remain on guard for all the still-awful Obamacare wrinkles that this shoddily drafted law will visit upon us for lo these many years to come. This is your life now, so you might as well learn to cope with it. Today's focus: The tanning tax! While cobbling together the health care reform bill in 2009-2010, Congresspeople hit upon the idea of slapping a 10 percent excise tax on indoor tanning services. It … [Read more...]

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