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ACLU is calling it a direct assault on Internet users

Jul 29, 2011 No Comments ›› DemandProgress

"A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. Yesterday a U.S. House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account ...

AR-02: Boling Surprisingly Out

Jul 29, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

I'm getting to this late (a guy's got to work for a living and this doesn't pay the bills) but this comes as bad news for Democrats. David Boling, the former chief of staff under U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder who ran unsuccessfully for Snyder's vacant 2nd District seat in the Democratic primary last year, has ...

AR-03: Steve Womack Admits Constituents Are Telling Him To Raise Taxes; Refuses To Listen

Jul 28, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Wow, just wow. The scramble for votes came on a day when the phone lines of lawmakers jammed with calls and lawmakers’ Web sites frequently shut down after President Obama’s plea on Monday night for Americans to call members of Congress and push for a compromise. Dan Weiser, a spokesman for the House’s chief administrative officer, said ...

How To Fight For AR-04

Jul 28, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Mike Ross's surprise announcement this week no doubt put Democrats at a disadvantage. For all my complaints about Ross, and I have a great many, we were counting on him to hold that seat for us and enable us to focus on going solely on offense. (We'll get to the reasons for Ross's strength in ...

AR-02: David Johnson “Running For Reelection”

Jul 27, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

At the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last weekend, I bumped into State Senator David Johnson and asked him if he was running for the second district seat against Tim Griffin. The response was surprisingly frank. "I'm running for reelection in 2012." End of discussion apparently. Johnson was one of three strongly progressive options being prominently mentioned for this race, ...

Racism In School

Jul 26, 2011 1 Comment ›› ARDem

This is just disgusting. A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn't let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court. Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in ...

Garland County Tea Party Warns Of “The New World Order”

Jul 26, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

LOL!!!!!!!! That's a video put out by the Garland County Tea Party, warning of the threat of "The New World Order" an old conspiracy theory that's been around for decades. Basically it's the same old fear of the U.N. nonsense that fueled that stupid bicycle path thing here in Jonesboro and the Secure Arkansas nuttery ...

Representative Nate Bell=Moron

Jul 26, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

So, Representative Nate Bell decided to quote from Mein Kampf, apparently trying to explain why having a government working in the best interests of children is a bad thing... Well, like most Hitler comparisons, it didn't exactly go over well. But what was really funny was what ensued, as Representative Bell got taken to the mat ...

AR-04: Mike Ross Announces Retirement

Jul 25, 2011 2 Comments ›› ARDem

May the door hit him on his way out. U.S. Mike Ross of Prescott surprised everyone by scheduling an announcement this morning in Little Rock to say he would not seek a seventh term in Congress in 2012. The announcement is sudden, following a surprisingly good speech that sounded like it was actually given by a real ...

Brian Schweitzer At The JJ-Dinner

Jul 25, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

The keynote address at the JJ-Dinner this year was really something great. Governor Brian Schweitzer from Montana gave, as he usually does I might add, one hell of a speech. To give you an idea of how great it was, according to Max Brantley, Republicans were whining about it. That's always a good thing. Schweitzer, ...

Back From Jefferson-Jackson

Jul 24, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Had a great weekend at this year's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, and I got to say, my first time attending left a great impression. Let me rephrase that, I didn't just attend, I covered the event in the press section along with Blue Ark. writer La Voix. My partner came along for the ride as well, and ...

AR-02: David Boling Moving Closer To A Run?

Jul 22, 2011 No Comments ›› ARDem

Several sources of mine in the second district this week confirmed that David Boling, Vic Snyder's former chief of staff and a 2010 Democratic contender in his own right has been making some rounds in the second district, which a lot of people are taking as signs of his interest in jumping in against Tim ...

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