When the soothsayer told Julius Caesar to "beware the ides of March," she wasn't talking about him getting stabbed fiftyleven times. Your English teacher lied to you. The soothsayer was cautioning Caesar and anyone else who would listen that ...
Busy day, but I wanted to get this posted and hopefully expand on the thought later.
When he was running as the Vice Presidential half of Thomas E. Dewey's Republican ticket in 1948, Earl Warren, then the Governor of California, was asked by the N...
I have no idea how I missed this.
Following the tabling of his proposed tax cut for some used vehicles, Sen. Gilbert Baker (R-30, Conway) went on softcore smut peddler Dave Elswick's radio show to vent. Along with accusing Rep. Steven Meeks (...
About seven weeks ago, when it was rumored that Rep. Andy Mayberry was going to file a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks' gestation, I wrote a post explaining the likely problems with such a bill. Mayberry has now filed HB 1887, which is pretty ...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families released a statement yesterday regarding HB 1056, filed by Uvalde Lindsey (D-88, Fayetteville) and joined by over 40 additional Representatives and Senators, which would provide an exemption from income ta...
Today was the deadline for filing bills and resolutions for consideration during the 88th General Assembly's regular session. All told, there were 529 filings Monday (h/t @TolbertReport), bringing the total number of filings in 2011 to 2,358 (h/...
Cliched as it might be to choose this one, my all-time favorite Shakespearean soliloquy is from Act V of MacBeth, where the title character muses on the life and the passage of time:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for ...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled bashing of Arkansas Republicans and their ridiculous ideas for a moment of praise for one Republican lawmaker.
First, an observation.
I have two kids --- a twelve-year-old son and a three-year-old daugh...
Via Jason Tolbert, I see that Steve Brawner has written in defense of Senate Bill 586, which would carve certain exceptions to the constitutional 17-percent interest rate cap for loans under $5000. (In case you were wondering, that would be the ...
First let me thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts and for your support with three races in 2010. Even if you didn’t support our campaign, if you are reading this, thank you for your interest in public policy.
What does it take to win? ...