You can rest assured that this won't be mentioned the next time teachers are whining for a raise. If the goal of education is education, then these "educators" are cheating taxpayers out of their money and students out of their future.Here's the lin read more »
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Chesapeake Energy has cancelled its planned faux news/propaganda show in Texas on account of its budget problems. Is the shale boom about to go bust? read more »
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The Street.com reports today that Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), along with Circuit City, have been tapped to sell AT&T's U-verse TV and high-speed Internet service... read more »
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I'm paraphrasing, of course, but that's what she said.I shouldn't have to say this, but why should Arkansans be forced to foot the bill for illegal aliens to attend our colleges? How can we, legally, then prevent American citizens from out of state read more »
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Oral arguments on the challenge of the lottery amendment were held before the Supreme Court today. Backers of the amendment feel good about how it went. Most of the court's questions seemed to go to the challenger's lawyer, Martha Adcock, and the se read more »
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Morning Roundup for Monday, October 13, 2008: Little Rock Taking Proposals to Lease Ray Winder FieldAfter... read more »
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Lowell Grisham, an Episcopalian priest who writes a column for the Northwest Arkansas Times, has a good column opposing Initiated Act 1, which would raise bars to adoption and foster parenting. One anecdote worth noting:

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LRPD reports on a vice detail inspection at the State Fair:

Vice detectives inspected a booth at the State Fair that was selling various name brand items, which were suspected to be counterfeit.  Vice detectives contacted Immigrati read more »
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The hoot of the morning was the wire story in D-G that John McCain would be proposing, ta da, a tax cut to stimulate the economy. How a capital gains tax cut would help when hardly anybody has any capital gains to report is one obvious fla read more »
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The Argenta News is on the case of another private business favored with city-provided special parking for its riverfront customers, while recreational users of the river trail are shunted off to the boondocks. read more »
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Is it Barack Obama, caricatured by associative guilt, or is it the thought of Sarah Palin an uncertain heartbeat away? Brummett says the election boils down to personality choices, not issues, and I suspect he's right.
Easy call from where I s read more »
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Glenn Greenwald of Salon takes note of a harmonic convergence -- an appearance in Little Rock last week by writers for Politico; the writers' connections with Tim Griffin, the former Karl Rovian White House aide now calling Little Rock home, and som read more »
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Barack Hussein Obama claims that it's not a big deal that he's friends with Bill Ayers, founder of the extreme, radical Leftist terrorist group, Weather Underground, because he was 8 when Ayers committed his terrorist acts...A show of hands, please: read more »
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Many in Arkanas are anxious to adopt a corporate welfare program for movie makers. They want to match generous incentives offered in Louisiana (New Orleans, above, is obviously a popular setting) and elsewhere to lure movie productions. An ar read more »
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