While it’s hard to compete with the kind of comic genius that considers “blogger” a punchline, we do our best to provide the Lt. Gov. with some better material.
Author: bhr_iat2rz
One Night In The Tidal Basin: How A Stripper Doomed Health Care Reform In 1974
Both in the run up to the vote on the Affordable Care Act[foot]Calling it “Obamacare” without some seriously scary music in the background just seems wrong.[/foot] and since its passage, there have been a number of stories about how President…
Reefer Madness 2014: Starring Bob Ballinger & Bryan King
Arkansas House District 97 includes parts of Madison, Washington, and Carroll Counties in the northwest corner of the state. The district’s largest urban areas are the dual-county seat cities of Carroll County – Eureka Springs and Berryville. In 2012,…
11/12/13 Gallimaufry
If this blog were a goldfish, it would have died from neglect days ago. That’s poor hustle on my part. But enough about that — let’s pretend like we haven’t missed a beat and go straight to the odds and…
Kelly's Zeroes: Staying Busy At Taxpayer Expense
Prior to Mark Martin’s (regrettably) taking office in 2011, Augustine John Kelly–known to most as AJ–worked in part as the city attorney for Fairfield Bay, Arkansas, earning $48, 746.00 from the resort town in 2010 alone. In 2011, he took…
Let's Broaden Our Circle – Worst Speech at the Value Voters Summit of 2013
Before you go believing Mark Levin and talking about an Article V convention, there’s something you should know: the math doesn’t work. Like, not even a little bit. That might not matter to the guy selling books, but it might matter to the people who want to know whether he makes any sense. (He doesn’t.)
An Open Letter Regarding Tort Reform In Arkansas
At its most basic, “tort reform” is nothing more than a direct assault on Arkansas Constitution and on the principles behind Bill of Rights. When you remove or limit the right of a citizen to have a trial by jury and have the community of his peers decide what his injuries are worth, you subvert Article 2, section 7, of the Arkansas Constitution and you imply that you think the Framers of the Constitution were off base when they included the Seventh Amendment.
SD-21: Primary Postmortem
Democrats
Baker: $10.88
Rockwell: $37.28
Kidd: $28.00
Roebuck: $31.34
Republicans
Cooper: $15.75
Sullivan: $31.75
Niell: $99.26
Not So Puzzling: A Predictable, Ongoing Failure to Follow the AFOIA
Let’s play a game. It works like this: I’ll share part of an email that I received earlier today from a reader named Brian, but I’ll remove the office that he’s referring to, and we’ll see how many of you…
Our Struggles Continue: Worst Letters to the Democrat-Gazette
By: A.J. Hanson (North Little Rock) Date: September 29, 2013 I believe the president was 100% correct when he made the statement in his Navy Yard memorial speech that “it ought to be a shock to all of us…