That Blanche Lincoln is between a rock and a hard place is getting to be a trite assessment owing to its overpowering plain truth. But here’s a new look at it this morning from The Washington Post. And a new poll of the 2nd Congressional District shows that liberals think she’s a conservative and conservatives [...]

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My weekend column offerings: Saturday — What will ever-embattled Blanche do? Not on the health care bill or a filibuster, I mean, but on a simple motion next week to proceed to consider the thing at all. Sunday — More charter schools? Or fewer? I say yes. National — What if Harry Reid called a real old-fashioned filibuster, [...]

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Here I am on Roby Brock’s Talk Business television show Sunday night, airing in Little Rock on Fox 16 at 10 p.m., talking about how the Republicans ought to go about running against Mike Beebe and how Barack Obama is a drain on Blanche Lincoln and, maybe, something else.

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Noted local filmmaker Chris Cranford has posted this video on Sunday’s annual Hillcrest neighborhood pumpkin roll. It speaks eloquently and powerfully for itself. There are two very brief glimpses of a large man in tennis shorts and ball cap — a judge or referee of some sort, apparently — trying in vain to keep up [...]

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What if I were a young conservative Republican offering my sacrificial candidacy for governor against Mike Beebe? What on earth might I say? I take a shot at that remote hypothetical here in a copy I’ve made on our Web site of my latest piece for Roby Brock’s TBQ, or Talk Business Quarterly, magazine, which [...]

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Just got back from judging the Hillcrest neighborhood pumpkin roll. More than 90 kids and more than 20 adults entered to roll pumpkins from Hill down Midland and, they hoped, across a traffic-stopped Kavanaugh all the way to Lee Avenue. This was three to four times the field of any of the five previous events, [...]

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee is doing some e-mailing and blog-posting of my column today on Blanche Lincoln’s fix. I’m going to have to go reread it to see what I did wrong.

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They’ll have the annual pumpkin roll at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Hillcrest neighborhood. It’s something about rolling pumpkins down a steep hilly street, going for distance. I am to be the judge this year. I am uncertain as to what this entails, since the distance of a roll is a matter of empirical measurement [...]

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Health care reform might come down to whether Democratic senators Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu will vote to end a filibuster even if they vote against the bill, a dicing that all but Lincoln will be able to get away with. She can’t because she’s on the electoral spot and generally [...]

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Razorback game commentary? Too depressed. Losing to Houston Nutt is awful. Just awful. I’ve been preoccupied tracking my wife Shalah’s trek to the French Riviera for a two-week French-speaking language immersion school — long a dream of hers. I am happy to report that she made it safely, via London, the chunnel, Paris and, now, to [...]

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