Archive | July, 2010

Former police Chief Frank Neely made a difference

As a teenager in the 1950s, Frank Neely learned firsthand the indignities of discrimination and how cruel people can be to each other when they choose to label someone based upon some unknown perception rather than by the deeds of the man.

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Jacksonville’s piece of history

For those who lived through the 1940s,1950s,1960s, and 1970s and even the 1980s, it’s hard to conceive that the events we witnessed every day would be considered history, but that time period chronicles an important part of our country’s history.

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Obama controls his narrative

Barack Obama was born in a foreign nation as part of a genetic experiment, raised a Muslim and brainwashed by radicals. Think X-Men meets Malcolm X.

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Republicans Kick Off with “Super Saturday” (UPDATE – Spies?)

Arkansas Republicans are gearing up for the fall election season with a “Super Saturday” volunteer effort.  Phone banking operation are going on all day at the following nine locations: Searcy, Springdale, Little Rock, Conway, Benton, Jonesboro, Fort Smith, El Dorado and Mountain Home. In addition, candidates will be touring the location to meet with volunteers. Rep. [...]

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Internal Poll Shows Opprotunity for Arkansas Republicans

The Republican Party of Arkansas put out an internal poll done by Diamond State Consulting Group that shows Republican with a leg up heading into the campaign season.  As always, take internal polls with a grain of salt but this poll conducted was conducted between July 27 to 29 on 1,242 likely voters on Secretary [...]

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Lincoln Gets Union Backing

Sen. Blanche Lincoln announced today that she has the backing of the state’s largest teacher’s union, the Arkansas Educators Association.  This is no real surprise as the AEA always backs the Democrat. What is surprising is that Sen. Lincoln is sending out press releases touting union support.  It was not to long ago that she was [...]

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Kurt Maddox Seeks the Mayor of Rogers Position

Former Republican Congressional candidate Kurt Maddox put out a press release today saying that he plans to run for the mayor of Rogers, although he stopped just short of making the announcement official. “I look forward to the possibility of rolling up my sleeves for the people of Rogers at a time when there is little [...]

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Beebe and Broadway Differ on Tax Increases

Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe and State Sen. Shane Broadway – candidate lieutenant governor – share so much in common that Broadway’s opponent has said that Broadway will simply be a yes man to Beebe if elected. But they already differ however slightly on one key policy – tax increases. While Beebe is holding firm that he [...]

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Crawford Campaign Responds to Bankruptcy

Charlie Frago with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports on a story that has been floating around Republican circles for sometime now. As Frago reports, Republican candidate for the First Congressional District Rick Crawford filed for bankruptcy some 16 years old, for $12,611.67 of debts including $7,500 in credit card debt and $4,200 in medical bills. Crawford [...]

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Keet Criticizes Beebe on Arizona Immigration Ruling

Yesterday, a federal court issued an injunction against a significant portion of Arizona’s new immigration law.  Republican Jim Keet, who is running for governor of Arkansas, issued a statement saying he supported the Arizona law, opposed the court’s ruling, and criticized Gov. Mike Beebe with the familiar line that he did not speak out enough. “The [...]

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