In his post a while back about Secretary of State candidate Mark Martin’s lack of a coherent platform, Jeff linked to Martin’s “Off The Marble” blog. The linked post, entitled “Tax Creep, Liberal Creeps, and the Arkansas Middle Class,” was…
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AR-Sen, AR-Gov: Boozman, Beebe lead
Talk Business released a new poll on the AR-Sen and AR-Gov races yesterday. The Senate polling was about what I expected, but the Gubernatorial race was kind of surprising. In a poll conducted on Saturday, July 17 among 793 likely…
AR-Gov: I Got These Cheeseburgers!
Building off of Jeff’s earlier post, here are the numbers for the AR-Gov race (h/t Blake): Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has more than $2.7 million cash-on-hand. His campaign reported raising more than half a million dollars in the month of…
AR House 46: Two Daves Unsurprisingly Not Better Than One
I don’t know the exact number of times I’ve listened to Dave Elswick’s show, but it is certainly less than ten. Which is to say that Elswick has had a guest I was interested in hearing fewer than ten times,…
Econ 101: Austerity Has Unicorns
It’s not my intention to turn this blog into all-econ, all the time. But, maybe, if we repeat it enough, this message will get through to the amazing number of Arkansans who don’t get it, especially those in office or…
RWC: MO GOP Candidate Offers Stupidity In Jesus' Name
It’s nice to see the state where I spent my formative years offering up some right-wing stupidity. Ed Martin, a Republican candidate for Congress in Missouri is saying that President Obama and Martin’s opponent, Russ Carnahan, want to take away…
AR-04: Razing Arizona
Rep. Mike Ross released an official statement today detailing why he opposes the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department last week challenging Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The alleged Democrat’s statement even managed to parrot all of the major talking…
Off-Topic: Greetings from space
The very awesome picture above is the first full-sky picture from the Planck Telescope. Launched in 2009 and costing € 700MM, the Planck Telescope is on a mission to measure tiny variations in the oldest light in the universe —…
RWC: Bachmann Says Obama Making Slaves Of Americans
Michele Bachmann never ceases to amaze. And, by “amaze,” I mean “say amazingly ridiculous things to groups of fools inclined to believe her.” This time, as you’ve probably heard, she’s decided that President Obama is enslaving America in a way…
Guest Post: An Economic Allegory, by BFD
Husband: Hi, honey, I’m … whoa! You look terrible. Tell your Big Daddy all about it. Wife: I’ve only been this sick a couple of times, but not since the 1930s have I been this bad. 17%* of me isn’t…