Removing grocery tax  
Beebe is the smarter on this point. He has been around the government in boom and bust cycles and knows that this year’s surplus is next year’s deficit. He wants to go cautiously, peeling off a couple of pennies of the 6-cent state tax at first, then phase the rest out while the […]

I happened to hear CNN’s Jack Cafferty on the radio today go off on what has become his daily ass kicking of the Bush Administration or Congress, as he breathed fire out of his noise about the “Antiterrorism Bill” that the House of Representatives passed today.  So, I’ve spent the better part of an hour getting my head around what […]

I once was a member of the Republican Party back in the 80’s when being a conservative meant that you watched you p’s and q’s, counted you pennies and believed that religion did not belong in politics. As you’ve probably surmised…not anymore.
Sunday, on Meet the Press former Republican Senator John Danforth talked about his book, […]

Want to protect freedom? read - Or, put another way, there are ideas some people would just as soon no one think about.
Banned Book Week is intended to remind Americans to not take lightly the freedom to read and the freedom of expression. It honors the diversity of thought and ideas Americans are free to […]

Trade Center Will Impact Economy - The Rogers skyline won’t feature a 110-story building anytime soon but the impact of last week’s’ announcement that a World Trade Center will be established in the city could have more effect than any skyscraper.
Lessons from UN’s Week - One of the lessons of this past week is that […]