[Author’s note: The post kind of piggybacks Alison Slider’s article in the D-G today. One slight correction to that article, however; it was a current employee who tipped me off about the improper car use, not a former employee.] In…
Category: Law
Justin Harris (R-Disingenuous)
I love the word “logomachy,” primarily because it sounds cool when you say it, but, also, because it amuses me to think that there’s a word for a battle over words. (I am similarly entertained by “lethologica,” which is a…
Tiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side (Yes, it is)
[I promise a Mark Martin-free weekend, if only because I’m kind of sick of talking about him, but you’ll have to indulge me one more Martin-related post. –Ed.] After my last three posts, I did not expect a warm and…
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State’s…
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd." –Wm. Wordsworth
I’m not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your…
Dude, Where's My (State-Owned) Car?
The rumor, according to a current employee of the Secretary of State’s Office (who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous), was that the office had purchased the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid due to its above average gas mileage, which…
The De-Regulation Bamboozle
If you were to ask your basic, stereotypical CEO crybaby, such as Jamie Dimon, what the biggest threat to freedom is, they would undoubtedly answer “regulation.” Because, you know, there’s nothing worse than asking corporations play by the rules. But…
Guest Post: Rebutting Carter
[Friend and reader “The Hypo” took issue with Rep. Davy Carter’s statements in yesterday’s joint article. He wrote the following guest post in response. Enjoy.] As noted here and elsewhere, the House recently adopted a policy banning the use of…
Some House members oppose audio/video policy
[Editor’s note: The following story is a collaborative effort among Roby Brock (Talk Business), Matt Campbell (Blue Hog Report), Michael Tilley (The City Wire), and Jason Tolbert (The Tolbert Report).] Some Arkansas legislative members also have problems with a new…
"Even the politicians have learned – but, as usual, the politicians are much slower than the people they want to lead."
I don’t know what it is about Secretary of State Mark Martin (and the horde of retread Republicans who work for him) that constantly brings Hunter S. Thompson to mind. My guess is that it has to do with the…