The House will convene in about thirty minutes and begin the process of considering the health care bill. A vote is expected sometime late this afternoon or this evening. Politico has a synopsis of how the day will unfold. Jason Tolbert noted earlier that Arkansas Reps. Mike Ross and John Boozman are expected to vote No [...]

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The good press for the Clinton School of Public Service continues. On the heels of a glowing piece in Arkansas Life, Sam Eifling of Arkansas Business favorably reviews the school’s ability to attract talent from all over the world. Writes Mr. Eifling, Clinton School students, though tough to stereotype, do have some common traits. They’re bright, and [...]

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When Steve Schmidt, former senior strategist to John McCain, was in Little Rock a few weeks speaking at the Clinton School of Public Service I had the opportunity to speak with him for a few minutes after his speech.In that speech, which you can view here, he discussed the importance of the Republican Party setting [...]

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Time to review what happened today and look ahead to the weekend: Fight Club: It’s about time someone came to the defense of Henry Allen, the Washington Post newspaper editor who punch a colleague in the face earlier this week. Rex Nelson over at his Southern Fried blog does so today. Like Mr. Nelson, I’m not [...]

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Brett Kincaid is on a David Kinkade-esque roll over at BlogHawgs, the funny and insightful blog about Arkansas politics and football. He aptly illustrates a concern I raised last week on my radio program regarding Tim Tebow, the do-no-wrong quarterback at the University of Florida that had CBS announcer Verne Lundquist drooling. Then there’s this pointed defense [...]

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A new Gallup poll shows that fifty percent of adults believe that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is qualified to be president. Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post wonders if Mr. Huckabee has the ability to win the GOP nomination in 2012. But, it’s clear that Huckabee’s 2008 race had a far different impact on the [...]

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From Paul Krugman in The New York Times: Yet there was a national element to the election. Voters across America are in a bad mood, largely because of the still-grim economic situation. And when voters are feeling bad, they turn on whomever currently holds office.

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Robert Yates has a firm but fair assessment of the state of the football program at Little Rock Central High School. The football is on the brink of back-to-back winless seasons, and appears at an all-time low in terms of productivity and talent. It’s unfortunate for a program that earlier this decade fielded two state championship [...]

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I had the privilege to sit down with some bright undergrad and graduate students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this week to discuss an interesting project they’ve developed and cultivated. It’s called Project Our House and the goal of the effort is to raise donations using social media tools (Facebook, Twitter, blog, [...]

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Middlebury College professor Allison Stanger has a new book titled, “One National Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy”, which discusses the role that private contractors play in American foreign affairs. Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Thomas Friedman observed, As we debate how many more troops to dispatch to [...]

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