The Conservative Political Action Conference conducted a straw poll of 1,757 participants asking their preference for the Republican nominee for 2012. I am not sure if the results tell us more about who Conservatives favor or who attended the conference. But with 20% of the vote, Mitt Romney came in first, followed by Bobby Jindal [...]

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If you’re in Arkansas  tune into the Sunday Buzz with Bill Vickery on FM 103.7 The Buzz tomorrow morning. I’ll be on the program from 9:00 a.m. to noon talking politics, the Razorbacks, blogging and who knows what else. I’m off the blog for the rest of the day. Enjoy your Saturday.

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Late in the day yesterday I stumbled on this quote from Mark McKinnon, a former media advisor to President George W. Bush. Mr. McKinnon is deeply annoyed and unhappy about the nauseating attention being paid to Twitter by the news media. Over at The Daily Beast he wrote, “I admit, I tried to be Twitter hip. [...]

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Reports Editor & Publisher, “In yet another sad sign of the times, The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) today announced it has canceled its 2009 convention. The last time it called off its popular annual assembly was during World War II.” “Even though the learning opportunities at the convention would have been valuable, the [...]

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A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted on February 18-19 among 429 Republicans shows Sarah Palin with a slight edge over Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney as the preferred GOP nominee for 2012: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin 29% Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee 26% Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 21% Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal 9% Someone else 10% None/no one 4% No [...]

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The ArkTimes.com site is down or I’d post this over at The Moviegoer. Since I’ve got at least one film on my mind this weekend, I thought I would point you to this story in The New York Times about American moviegoers in this tough economy. Box office ticket sales are up a whopping 17.5%. [...]

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“I think that newspapers are really important for the country because they have the time to do lengthy thought pieces, which are important. I get information from newspapers I can’t get from the evening news,” former President Bill Clinton is quoted as saying to Greg Sargent of The Plum Line.  “Every time I real about [...]

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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Make this tonight’s open line.

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While many Arkansas citizens are closely monitoring the action in the current Arkansas legislative session to gauge its effects on their pocketbooks, others are just beginning to discover that a bill passed in 2005 is going to cost them more in taxes.

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LITTLE ROCK — A House panel on Friday recommended a bill that would ban the sale of novelty cigarette lighters that look like toys, cartoon characters or animals.

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