Mike Huckabee appeared this weekend on Fox News Sunday discussing whether he would run for President in 2012 (video edits from Politico.)  He continues to hint at it without directly saying if he will. “I haven’t closed the door. I think that would be foolish on my part, especially when poll after poll shows that there [...]

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As expected, news is trickling in on how the compromise to Sen. Lincoln’s derivative provision went down. I spoke a few minutes ago with Sen. Lincoln’s Ag Committee communications director Courtney Rowe who wanted to clarify a few items. First of all, while she admitted that Lincoln had to compromise from her original bill, they still [...]

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Reaction is swift and mixed to the compromise reached last night by Sen. Lincoln on her derivatives bills but two things are clear – (1) she had to compromise key elements of her provision to get the bill passed and (2) her efforts led to tighter regulation of derivatives trading by the financial markets. “As Chairman [...]

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Details are still coming in but the Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Lincoln agreed to a compromise on her derivatives provision in the financial reform bill after insisting for weeks that she would not.  The Conference Committee hammered out the final details in the wee hours of Friday morning.  From the Washington Post… The final [...]

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Democratic nominee for the Congress in Arkansas’ Second District State Sen. Joyce Elliott spoke to a packed Political Animals Club crowd at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock today. “I want to start by letting you know I am absolutely not running against Washington, any pinhead can do that,” opened Elliott much to the crowd’s delight. [...]

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The Political Animals Club of Little Rock met today and last week to hear from Second Congressional District candidate Democrat Joyce Elliott and Republican Tim Griffin.  While there, attendees and guests voted on the best and the worst campaigns of the 2010 primary season. No surprise that Joyce Elliott and Tim Griffin made number one and [...]

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I don’t think it is a secret to anyone that Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin have a bit of a former Republican governor and possible Presidential candidates rivalry going on. This is the make drop for some jokes that Huckabee launched at Palin this weekend on Fox News. Huckabee asked “Is Palin inhalin?” then showed [...]

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Federal prosecutors say a doctor charged in the bombing of the state medical board chairman planned the attack because the board received a complaint that he"d been illegally distributing drugsfrom Channel 7

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Authorities in south Arkansas are searching for an inmate who escaped the Union County Jail.from Channel 7

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Shortly after Lt. Gov. Bill Halter lost to Sen. Blanche Lincoln in the Democratic runoff, Daily Kos – which had previously posted polls showing Halter with a slight lead – fired its pollster Research 2000.  Today, the blog is saying that the polls were “likely bunk.” “We were defrauded by Research 2000, and while we don’t [...]

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