If nothing else, your modern Republican is modest. Well, modest in the way that Liberace was a modest dresser. Whether it’s a new-found ability to channel the Founding Fathers in a way that meets your own myopic viewpoint or the…
Category: Economics
AR-House Dist. 47: Meeks Qua Consultant?
I was poking around on the Secretary of State’s website today (because that’s the kind of nerd I am, I suppose), when I happened upon this: Corporation Name: STELLAR POLITICAL CONSULTING LLC Filing # 800192191 Filing Type Limited Liability Company…
End-of-Week Miscellany: Snow Day Linkdump Edition
“Look at the big jerk. He ruined my life, and for what? A STUPID KID! Because of you, I am stuck in this frozen wasteland!” “Wasteland? I think you mean Wonderland! I mean, how about all this fabulous snow, huh?!…
HB 1284: Now With 4% More Travel-Related Ethics!
HB 1284 — the “Ethics Bill” — passed the House Rules Committee without objection yesterday. Just to recap, this bill would (1) require that legislators use the cheapest means of travel and (2) that legislators elected after this bill’s effective…
End-of-Day Miscellany
Random bits of jetsom and flotsam from the wreckage of the Good Ship HB 1053: Jason Tolbert has video of a post-failure David Meeks discussing what happened. Between the obvious dry mouth and the stammering, one almost loses the message,…
2011 Legislative Preview: HB 1025
Programming note: Given the number of bills being filed, the amount of time I actually have to do reviews of such things, and the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, it’s pretty clear that I won’t be able to get…
Adventures in Idiocy: Worst Letters to the Editor from the Holiday Weekend (Pt. 3 of 4)
So…uh…Sunday’s paper? There weren’t actually any terrible letters to the editor. I know! Seriously, I’m as shocked as you are. In place of a Sunday letter, I’ll just link to the November 11, 2010, Adventures in Idiocy that I wrote.
End of Week Miscellany
“I thought you had the day off yesterday.” “I did! I went in to pick up my check, came home, my supervisor called me about four o’clock. Told me he got me on tape, doing a link dump.” King of…
Econ 101: The GOP and The CBO
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its estimates on the costs that would accompany a full repeal of healthcare reform. The New York Times reports that [t]he nonpartisan budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to…
2011 Legislative Preview: HB 1018
See here for previous posts in this series. Bill Name: AN ACT TO DEFINE “TERMINATE” AS THAT TERM APPLIES TO ELIGIBILITY FOR RETIREMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM Sponsor: Allen Kerr (R-32), 501-225-3170, allen.kerr@arkansashouse.org; Jane English (R-42), 501-257-7670,…