Archive for December, 2010
Happy New Year’s Eve-Affordable Care Act Provisions Kick In Tomorrow
Dec 31, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemI can't think of a better way to start the new year: The first will dramatically clamp down on insurance industry waste, abuse, and excesses. Starting on New Year's Day, insurance companies will have to spend at least 80 percent of the revenues they receive from premiums on actual health care. Not on salaries or overhead. Like ...
Continue ReadingSomething Fishy in Arkansas Water?
Dec 30, 2010 No Comments ›› LaVoixNot telling the readers anything new in the area regarding the environmental destruction of our once pristine “Natural State”. However, there is something fishy going on up near Roseville as seen on 40/29 TV. Travis Harmon, of the ADEQ, is quoted in their story, “It's a single species kill. We don't know the cause. We don't think ...
Continue ReadingSomething Arkansas Ought To Do
Dec 30, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemMississippi...yes, Mississippi...will become the first state to teach civil rights history in all grades. If that's not a sign that progress can happen anywhere, I don't know what is. Soon, civil rights lessons be will required for students from kindergarten to 12th grade all across Mississippi. A civil rights/human rights curriculum becomes mandatory in all public schools ...
Continue ReadingUnder Fire, Huckabee Ditches The Scam Artist
Dec 30, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemA simple background check or a google search might have saved him this trouble: Ken Hoagland, chairman of Restore America’s Voice said, “We have terminated the services of 949 Media after we saw a web report last night detailing prior complaints involving its participation in certain mortgage relief marketing activities.” Hoagland said that 949 Media was ...
Continue ReadingArkansas 7th Best State For Solar Energy Deployment
Dec 29, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemAs the Arkansas state legislature reconvenes they ought to take a good look at this: As the movement toward using more sustainable energy continues, many states look to build their renewable energy portfolios. However, too often, the focus is placed only on states that are optimal renewable-energy generation states. That would only be appropriate if the ...
Continue ReadingCall Senator Pryor for filibuster reform
Dec 29, 2010 No Comments ›› bluebobMy wife Jane and I recently watched “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Bernie Sanders’ recent filibuster of the tax compromise made me recall Jimmy Stewart’s famous filibuster from the movie. It had probably been twenty years since I had seen it, but I still recalled much of the filibuster scene; where an exhausted Steward read ...
Continue ReadingA Progressive Agenda For Arkansas, 2011
Dec 28, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemIt's time to gear up for the next session of the Arkansas state legislature and with a reduced Democratic majority a lot of Arkansas Dems are talking about watering down or avoiding any aggressive push for progressive legislation. Personally, I think that's bullshit. We still have a majority and, with the likes of Dawn Creekmore ...
Continue ReadingPres 2012: The Company Mike Huckabee Keeps
Dec 28, 2010 9 Comments ›› ARDemGod this is sickening: Huckabee, who has a history of using his ubiquitous media presence to fundraise for political groups benefiting himself and his family, is again associating with a shady political venture. ThinkProgress has learned that Huckabee is working with a firm notorious for defrauding families facing foreclosure with false promises and predatory fees. According to ...
Continue ReadingOpponents Of Jonesboro Bike Path Want Local Control; Call For Out-of-Towners To Help Protest Plan
Dec 27, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemThe Jonesboro bicycle path saga just gets more and more interesting. Suffice it to say, Secure Arkansas official Debbie Pelley wasn't happy with me posting video of the last meeting up that had all the ranting about compounds and children freezing to death in the snow, much less video that showed her little band outnumbered ...
Continue ReadingMerry Christmas, Happy Holidays, All That Jazz
Dec 25, 2010 No Comments ›› ARDemEnjoy your holiday, whatever holiday it might be.
Continue Reading“Onward Christian Soldiers…marching off to war….”
Dec 24, 2010 4 Comments ›› LaVoixAre we witnessing Christian Soldiers marching off to war? For music to read by click here. The song really sets the theme for the invasion of church in to the state of Garland County government. Yep, the “Christian Soldiers” have been preparing in Hot Springs National Park and Garland County their exclusive club for government. As ...
Continue ReadingThe Republicans’ Growing Latino Problem
Dec 23, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemRepublican Presidential hopefuls plan on skipping a forum aimed at Latino voters. It was billed, in part, as a forum for the 2012 Republican presidential field to speak directly to Hispanics — a replica of the vaunted Conservative Political Action Conference, but tailored to the fastest-growing slice of the electorate. Yet, when former Gov. Jeb Bush, former ...
Continue ReadingSo, I Went On A Right Wing Radio Show
Dec 23, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemNormally, my position on Democrats doing a right wing program, namely anything on Fox, is simply "don't do it." These outlits exist to advance the right wing positions and talking points of the Republican Party and will work against Democrats no matter what. That's not to say I'm all that much different, though you notice ...
Continue ReadingPat Robertson Comes Out For Decriminalized Pot
Dec 23, 2010 1 Comment ›› ARDemI really don't know where to go with this... Opening a segment on faith-based prison rehabilitation on his show The 700 Club this week, Robertson noted that many conservatives look at drug addicts and "think 'lock 'em up, throw away the key,' after which he played a segment highlighting how religious influence could help rehabilitate criminals ...
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