Sand Rant
 
We are ten months away from the 2008 Presidential primaries here in Arkansas and yet, we find that the Benton County Election Commission is intact or maybe the right word is entrenched. Whatever, the states Keystone Cops of the 2006 election cycle is the same cast of characters, nothing has changed within the Election […]

Doug Thompson’s  - Where the money went
The government spent the $916 million state surplus. Let’s look at the checkbook.
Fixing schools took nearly half at $456 million.
That’s $456 million that won’t be financed with bonds. People won’t have to pay interest for that portion with property taxes on their homes.
Court-ordered improvements to schools will still […]

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Cheney reminds me of the game “whack a mole”. You know the game, the mole pops its head up and you’ve got a club and you’re suppose to whack it back in its hole. Cheney keeps popping his head up with the outright lie that Sadaam Hussien and Iraq were state sponsors of al Qaeda […]